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title: 'Chief Information Security Officer at Slash Financial'
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# Chief Information Security Officer at Slash Financial

- **Company:** Slash Financial
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/slash-financial/aa0be8a3-00ea-4a9e-9484-58942c41c7f8

## Job description

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) San Francisco Office · Full-time

## About Slash

Slash is building the future of business banking, one industry at a time. We think businesses deserve financial infrastructure built around how they actually operate. That's why we combine what businesses expect from a bank (high yields, strong rewards, serious security) with industry-specific tools that make them faster, leaner, and more profitable. Slash was founded in 2021 and is one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the world. We power over $10B a year in business purchasing. We recently raised a $100M Series C led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures, Goodwater Capital, NEA, and Y Combinator. We're headquartered in San Francisco and have a strong in-person culture.

## About the role

Our customers trust us with their operating cash, their cards, their payroll, and their cross-border payments. Keeping that money and data safe is one of the most important things we do. We're hiring our first CISO to own security across the whole company. You'll be responsible for the product, the infrastructure, our people, our vendors, and our relationships with bank partners and auditors. This is not a policy-and-slide-deck role. You'll write threat models, review architecture, and get hands-on when it matters. You'll also build the team and program that let Slash scale to many times its current size without slowing down. You'll report to CTO and work closely with engineering, compliance, legal, risk, and our partner banks.

## What you'll do

- Own Slash's security strategy and program end-to-end. That includes deciding what matters most, what to build versus buy, and what we can safely leave for later.
- Build and lead the security team, starting with our Security Engineering hire, and recruit a small group of exceptional engineers.
- Secure a platform that moves real money. Scope includes card issuing and PCI DSS, ACH and wire flows, stablecoin payments, treasury, working capital, and our public API.
- Lead account-security and anti-takeover work, including MFA and passkeys, session and device security, rate limiting, and admin and permission controls. Partner with fraud and risk teams on the threats that sit between security and fraud.
- Set the approach for securing AI agents and automation that act on customer accounts. Define permissions, guardrails, auditability, and abuse prevention for autonomous financial actions.
- Own cloud and infrastructure security posture across AWS and Cloudflare, including identity and access, secrets management, logging, detection, and response.
- Build and run incident response. Own the playbooks, the on-call process, and customer, partner, and regulatory communication when something goes wrong.
- Own our compliance frameworks and audits, including SOC 2 Type II and PCI. Support partner-bank oversight reviews, due diligence, and examinations, and answer enterprise customer security reviews.
- Stand up third-party and vendor risk management across our banking, crypto, lending, and infrastructure partners.
- Run pen testing, the bug bounty program, and red-team exercises, and make sure findings actually get fixed.
- Brief leadership and the board on security risk in plain language.

## What we're looking for

- 10+ years in security, with meaningful time leading security at a fintech, payments company, bank, or crypto company, where the stakes were real money.
- A builder's track record. You've stood up a security program from an early stage and scaled it through hypergrowth.
- Deep technical credibility. You can go line by line through an auth flow with a senior engineer, and then explain the risk to our board in five minutes.
- Hands-on experience with PCI DSS and SOC 2, and with the security expectations of sponsor banks and the FFIEC-style examinations they run.
- Strong cloud security experience, ideally AWS, in a modern engineering environment that ships quickly.
- Good judgment about tradeoffs. You make security the fast path for engineers, not the blocker.
- Calm and decisive during incidents.
- Bonus: experience securing crypto or stablecoin infrastructure, card issuing programs, or global and multi-entity payment operations. Also a plus: you've been a founder, or an early security leader at a company that went through a big growth arc.

## What's in it for you

- Build the security function at one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the world, with real ownership and a direct line to leadership
- Competitive salary + equity
- High autonomy + ownership culture
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits
- Free lunch every day, and dinner if you stay past 9 PM
- Working out of our downtown San Francisco office
- Unlimited PTO

## About Slash Financial

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Slash provides a modern, all-in-one business banking, corporate cards, and treasury platform, reimagining financial services for specific industries.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Victor Cardenas (CEO) and Kevin Bai (CRO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Financial Technology (Fintech), Business Banking, Payments
- Target customers: B2B, targeting businesses of all sizes from startups to enterprises (Silver/Gold/Black tiers based on payment volume)
- Mission or purpose statement: To build a higher standard in business finance by moving beyond one-size-fits-all banking, combining the reliability of traditional banking with industry-specific features to make businesses more efficient, competitive, and profitable.

## Products & Services
- **Business Banking**: High-yield FDIC-insured accounts with enhanced coverage up to hundreds of millions, multi-entity management, and granular user controls.
- **Corporate Cards**: Unlimited virtual and physical cards with cashback rewards, advanced spend controls, and multi-step payment approvals. Cards are issued by Column N.A., under a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc.
- **Treasury & Cash Management**: Tools for managing company funds, including high-yield accounts and automated top-ups.
- **Slash API**: Developer-friendly APIs for read and write access, enabling automation of payments, stablecoin on/off ramps, and multi-entity financial management.
- **Crypto & Stablecoin Services**: Seamless conversion between fiat and crypto within the app, including stablecoin on and off ramps.
- **Global Payments & Reconciliation**: Support for domestic and international wire transfers, same-day ACH, and real-time payments (FedNow/RTP) with reporting and reconciliation tools.
- **Working Capital**: Flexible credit options for businesses to fuel growth.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.4 billion (as of Series C in April 2026).
- **Key Metric** (Total Funding): Over $160 million raised.
- **Key Metric** (Volume): Over $30 billion in yearly payment volume, $35 billion+ in virtual cards issued, and 5 million+ cards issued.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (S21 batch), NEA, Goodwater Capital, Stanford University, and federally regulated bank partner Column N.A. (Member FDIC).
- **Growth Signals**: Raised a $100M Series C in April 2026, reaching a $1.4B valuation. In 2024, the company surpassed $1B in annualized volume, launched multiple new products (Corporate Cards, API, Global Payments, Real-Time Payments), and secured a $41.6M Series B. By 2025, annualized volume hit $3B. The company serves over 6,000 businesses.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Industry-Specific Approach**: Unlike one-size-fits-all competitors (like Ramp or Brex), Slash deeply studies workflows across verticals to tailor its banking platform, giving it a strong moat in specific industries.
- **Unified Platform**: Combines banking, cards, treasury, crypto, and API access on a single platform, simplifying financial operations for businesses.
- **Founding Team & Backing**: Founded by teenagers and backed by top-tier investors (Y Combinator, NEA, Goodwater), signaling strong execution and market confidence.
- **Security & Compliance**: SOC2 Type II and PCI compliant, with enhanced FDIC insurance through a network of 800+ banks and partnerships with federally regulated banks.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening Industry Verticals**: Continuing to build industry-specific features and partnerships (e.g., with accounting firms and healthcare) to capture more market share.
- **Product Expansion**: Scaling its API, global payments, stablecoin infrastructure, and working capital products to become the primary financial operating system for businesses.
- **Scaling Customer Base**: Moving upmarket (Black tier for $100M+ volume) while serving SMBs, aiming to displace traditional banks and legacy fintechs.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "100% hardcore in-person culture" with a strong emphasis on collaboration, hard work, and ambition. The company believes innovation thrives in a dynamic, in-office environment.
- **Work Policy**: In-person, based in San Francisco. The company fosters a strong, dedicated team environment.
- **Perks**: Competitive salary with equity, comprehensive health/vision/dental benefits, free lunch every day, free dinner if you stay past 9 PM, and a MacBook Pro.
- **Engineering Culture**: Focused on building a new category of business banking. Roles include Applied AI Engineer, Software Engineer (Stablecoin, Growth, Product), and Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer, indicating a high-value on modern tech stacks and AI.
- **Growth Opportunity**: As a fast-growing, well-funded startup (recently hitting unicorn status), employees have the chance to work on transformative problems and grow with the company.

## Sources
1. [slash.com - Homepage](https://www.slash.com/)
2. [slash.com - About Page](https://www.slash.com/company/about)
3. [slash.com - Careers Page](https://www.slash.com/company/careers)
4. [Y Combinator - Slash Profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/slash)
5. [TechCrunch - Series C Announcement](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/slash-a-ramp-competitor-founded-by-teenagers-raises-100m-at-1-4b-valuation/)

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