--- title: 'Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) - Vancouver at Human Agency' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/chief-information-security-officer-ciso-vancouver-human-agency-vancouver-w80qgfxd04pk' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) - Vancouver at Human Agency - **Company:** Human Agency - **Location:** Vancouver, Canada - **Posted:** 2026-03-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanagency/jobs/7649959003 ## Job description Location: Remote (U.S. or Canada) Type: US Applicants – Full-Time; Canadian Applicants – Independent Contractor ## About Human Agency We're scaling rapidly and have a growing pipeline of opportunities that demand exceptional talent across disciplines. Our mission is to bring on individuals, from creative producers to technical experts to entrepreneurial leaders, who can help us realize this next chapter of growth. We are a company of doers. Leaders roll up their sleeves, teams work flat, and everyone contributes to what ships. Titles don't insulate us from feedback or basics. We invite critique, learn quickly, and keep raising the bar. The best ideas win here, no matter where they come from, because clients trust us to deliver the strongest outcomes every time. Our clients' missions, products, and bottom lines are sacred. We immerse ourselves in their world, becoming stewards of their goals and partners in solving big problems. Every product, strategy, or asset we create must be both beautiful and functional; practical, usable, and designed for real-world impact. Humans are our most valuable resource, and we only grow by hiring people who push us forward. Across strategy, engineering, design, data, and operations, we seek out teammates who raise the bar and make us better. Always hire up, never down. We partner with organizations of all sizes to explore, design, and implement AI strategies that are secure, scalable, and human-centered. We believe AI should amplify human potential, not replace it, and we build with that conviction in every engagement. From advisory and tooling to implementation and education, we meet clients where they are and help them integrate AI in ways that align with their mission and values. Our goal is to empower teams to work smarter, move faster, and unlock new possibilities through thoughtful, responsible innovation. And through it all, we lead with purpose, love, and adventure. We do meaningful work with people we care about, and we make the ride an adventure worth taking. Because at Human Agency, who we are and how we work are one and the same. The Opportunity This is not a traditional enterprise CISO role where you inherit a legacy infrastructure, manage a large team, and maintain the status quo. This is a hands-on, entrepreneurial builder role. You are joining at the frontier of AI security — designing systems that don't yet exist, solving problems the industry is only beginning to name, and treating security not as a cost center but as a strategic and commercial advantage. We're deploying AI agents at scale across client environments, building our own AI-powered tools, and advising organizations on how to safely integrate autonomous systems into mission-critical workflows. That creates a unique security mandate: you must secure our internal operations, embed security directly into the AI products we build, and help clients deploy agents safely in regulated, high-stakes environments. You are architect, operator, and evangelist all at once. You'll have the rare opportunity to shape how an entire category of technology gets secured. We're not asking you to retrofit old playbooks onto new problems — we're asking you to write the playbook. If you've been looking for a role where security is core to the product, where you can build things that matter, and where your work influences the broader conversation around AI safety and governance, this is it. ## What You'll Own Define and execute our security strategy from the ground up. You'll architect our internal security posture across infrastructure, data, and AI systems, establish governance models for how we deploy agents safely, and ensure we're prepared for compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO, and potentially FedRAMP as we scale into enterprise and government clients. Build security into AI agent systems as a first-class product feature. You'll design guardrails, monitoring, and policy enforcement for autonomous agents — ensuring they operate within defined boundaries, audit their own actions, and surface anomalies in real time. This isn't theoretical; you'll implement these systems in production environments where they directly impact client outcomes. Develop and potentially commercialize security products. The security tooling you build internally may become standalone offerings. You'll have the latitude to identify what's missing in the market, prototype solutions, and work with our product and engineering teams to turn internal infrastructure into revenue-generating products. Lead incident response, threat modeling, and adversarial testing. You'll build and run red team exercises against our AI systems, model attack vectors that don't yet have names, and develop response frameworks for risks unique to agentic AI — things like prompt injection at scale, model extraction, or adversarial manipulation of agent behavior. Serve as the public face of AI security for Human Agency. You'll represent us in client conversations, partner discussions, and industry forums. You'll publish, speak, and help shape the broader conversation around AI risk, alignment, and governance. If the industry doesn't yet have consensus on how to secure a given AI capability, you'll be one of the people defining it. Deploy and operate security infrastructure hands-on. You'll implement zero-trust architectures, secure multi-agent systems, deploy monitoring and detection tools, and build secure data pipelines. This is not a role where you delegate all technical work — you write code, you configure systems, you debug in production when necessary. ## Who You Are ## Experience & Skills - You've served as a CISO, VP of Security, or Head of Security at a high-growth tech company, ideally one building or deploying AI systems at scale. - You have deep, hands-on experience securing AI and machine learning systems — not just theoretical knowledge, but real work protecting LLM architectures, model training pipelines, and inference infrastructure. - You've built and operated cloud-native security programs across AWS, GCP, or Azure, including zero-trust frameworks, identity and access management, and secure multi-tenant architectures. - You understand threat modeling and red teaming deeply, and you've led adversarial exercises against complex systems — ideally including AI-specific attack vectors like prompt injection, model inversion, or data poisoning. - You've designed and implemented security monitoring, incident response, and compliance programs that scale — you know what good looks like at every stage from startup to enterprise readiness. - You have a track record of building or contributing to security products, not just internal programs — something you shipped that customers used, or tooling that became infrastructure for others. Mindset & Traits - You think like a founder. You see security as a competitive advantage and a product opportunity, not just a compliance checkbox. You want to build things, not just manage them. - You are comfortable with ambiguity and energized by unsolved problems. The fact that no one has secured autonomous AI agents at scale yet doesn't intimidate you — it excites you. - You are product-minded and commercially aware. You understand that security decisions have business implications, and you can articulate trade-offs in language that non-security stakeholders understand and respect. - You are technical enough to earn respect from engineers and pragmatic enough to earn trust from clients. You can debug a containerized agent deployment in the morning and present to a CFO in the afternoon. - You are a teacher and a builder of institutional knowledge. You document what you learn, you share what you know, and you leave systems better than you found them. - You care deeply about doing the right thing. You take security seriously because real people and real organizations depend on it, and you hold yourself to the highest standard even when no one is watching. ## Equal Opportunity Commitment Human Agency is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diverse perspectives and are committed to building inclusive, high-performing teams where everyone can do their best work. ## About Human Agency ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Human Agency is a problem-solver company that builds and scales market-changing companies from the ground up, specializing in marketing, technology, AI, and business. - **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/Venture Studio model; Pre-Seed round in 2018) - **Headquarters**: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - **Founded**: 2018 (Pre-Seed round dated 2018-04-10) - **Founders**: Brendan Lind (Founder and Partner), Michael Menne (Partner, Co-Founder, CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Business Consulting and Services; Artificial Intelligence; Venture Studio / Venture Capital; Marketing & Technology - **Target customers**: B2B; Entrepreneurs and problem-solvers with big ideas; Large enterprises undergoing AI transformation; Startups and growth-stage companies - **Mission/Purpose Statement**: "Harnessing the power of our agency so you can fully exercise yours." / "Empower people to lead lives they find meaningful." ## Products & Services - **Venture Studio**: Builds companies from the ground up using a proven studio model. Partners with problem solvers, entrepreneurs, and growth experts to ideate, test, build, and launch new ventures in rapid succession. - **AI Enablement & Implementation**: Helps organizations (from startups to enterprises) harness AI, lead AI transformation, and implement AI solutions at scale. - **Consulting & Services**: Offers business operations, performance marketing, branding & design, content production, web development, and more for clients of all sizes. - **Venture Capital / Investment**: Invests cash or sweat equity in organizations that change the world, sharing returns with the team via the "Owner's Bonus" program. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Private company) - **Key Metric**: Employs 22 people (as of mid-2026); 263 active job postings; LinkedIn followers: 5,974 (+152% YoY) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed; partners with organizations like UNHCR, Protein Evolution, Real, and Harvard (mentioned on website). Pre-Seed round completed in 2018. - **Growth Signals**: Explosive job posting growth (+26,200% YoY, +697% quarterly) indicates rapid scaling; 152% yearly LinkedIn follower growth; expanding globally with presence in US, Canada, and Brazil; actively hiring for C-suite roles (CISO, CEO/Venture Studio Director) and AI leadership. ## Competitive Advantages - **Hybrid Agency/Venture Studio Model**: Unique combination of consulting, AI implementation, venture building, and investment under one roof — allows employees to work on diverse projects and share in upside. - **Owner’s Bonus Program**: Employees share returns from investments and holdings, creating a stakeholder culture uncommon in traditional agencies. - **Purpose-Driven**: Committed to humanitarian aid, environmental advocacy, and refugee protection (UNHCR partnership); a portion of all profits goes to these causes. - **Borderless, Remote-First Team**: Work from anywhere with full support for home office or co-working spaces, plus in-person retreats and travel opportunities. ## Strategic Focus - **AI as a Core Engine**: Actively building AI resilience funds, AI enablement teams, and AI implementation specialists — positioning AI at the center of their service offering. - **Venture Creation Velocity**: Rapidly launching new companies in healthcare, AI, immigration, climate tech, and beyond via their venture studio. - **Scaling Leadership**: Hiring aggressively for senior roles (Chief of Staff, CISO, Managing Director of AI, Product CEOs) to support expansion. - **Global Expansion**: Building presence in Montreal, Vancouver, Bay Area, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, and Seattle. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: "Be your own agent" — a borderless team at the intersection of pragmatism and idealism. Values include agency, purpose, and continuous learning. - **Remote Policy**: Fully remote/work-from-anywhere. Home office setup stipend (computer, desk, headphones) or co-working space reimbursement. - **Benefits**: 100% employee healthcare coverage (75% dependent coverage); 401k match; HSA/FSA; unlimited PTO with minimum usage requirements; paid sabbaticals; paid maternity/paternity leave; 11 paid holidays. - **Financial Incentives**: Revenue/profit sharing, commissions, and the Owner’s Bonus Program (equity-like upside from ventures). - **Learning & Growth**: Subsidized continuing education, support for select graduate programs, 529 match, and in-house innovation funding for employee ideas. - **Perks**: Annual company retreats, CEO Roadshow, work-cations, coastal hikes, MLS matches. - **Giving Back**: A portion of all profits dedicated to humanitarian aid, environmental advocacy, and employee-directed disaster relief. ## Sources 1. [humanagency.com](https://www.humanagency.com/) 2. [Careers Page](https://www.humanagency.com/careers) 3. [Greenhouse Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanagency) 4. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/humanagency) 5. 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