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# Director of Security at BioRender Inc.

- **Company:** BioRender Inc.
- **Location:** Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-04-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/biorender/am9icG9zdDq29pjCdGI-tw3jbggZObnP

## Job description

At BioRender, we’re on a mission to accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover, and communicate science — transforming how knowledge is shared and making science open, collaborative, and easily understandable by all.

We’re shaping the future of science communication and are looking for talented individuals to help bring this vision to life! 🚀

We're hiring a Director of Security to lead our Security team at BioRender. As we integrate AI deeply into both our software development process and products, we need a security leader who understands both traditional information security and the emerging AI threat landscape.

This role is equal parts builder and strategist. You’ll set the security vision and governance model for a company shipping AI-powered features to enterprise customers who handle sensitive research data.

Our ideal fit

- Experienced security leader, focused on user experience and thoughtful in building an impactful and efficient security culture
- Strategic builder who thinks long-term but will get in the weeds when needed
- Business-focused and empathetic, someone who earns trust across engineering, product, go-to-market teams, and customers by being a partner, not a bottleneck
- Passionate about the intersection of security and scientific research and understands why enterprise customers in pharma, biotech, and academia have heightened data sensitivity

## What you'll be doing

- Partner with engineering to evolve our approach for secure software development using AI coding tools and the security of our customer-facing products
- Maintain and advance our security and compliance posture; evaluate other certifications as a competitive differentiator for enterprise deals
- Scale our security function through automation as much as possible
- Lead our security operations function: auditing, internal documentation, incident response, and company-wide security awareness
- Own BioRender’s security narrative for enterprise customers, including our Trust Center, security documentation, and customer-facing security reviews
- Instill a culture of security across the company, and integrate security and data privacy into processes and decision making

## What you bring to the table

- 7+ years in security leadership, including experience building or significantly scaling a security program at a fast-growing SaaS company
- Deep experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar compliance certifications
- Demonstrated understanding of appsec, AI product, and AI software development security risks and how to mitigate them
- A preference for automation over manual scaling
- Strong track record partnering with product and engineering teams in a governance / oversight model, setting policy and guardrails while engineering executes
- Experience with enterprise security requirements in regulated or research-intensive industries
- Excellent at rolling out organizational change and getting buy-in across technical and non-technical teams

Why join us?

- We are mission-driven: we work collaboratively towards our shared vision of improving scientific communication and accelerating scientific discovery. BioRender figures have appeared in more than 54,000 publications!
- BioRender is loved by millions! We have a world-class NPS and a community of loyal fans and users in 200+ countries!
- Our company is backed by top investors and accelerators like Y Combinator, and we are on a growth trajectory comparable to many top-performing SaaS companies
- We’re remote-first with team members across Canada and the U.S., offering you the flexibility to work from anywhere.

BioRender is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. By submitting this application, you consent to the processing of your personal data by BioRender in accordance with GDPR and our Privacy Policy.

## About BioRender Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: BioRender is the world’s first software platform that enables scientists to quickly create and share professional, publication-ready scientific figures and illustrations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; Y Combinator graduate; $17.3M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (with a significant presence in the United States)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Shiz Aoki (CEO), Katya Shteyn (CTO), Ryan Marien

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Life Sciences, Scientific Communication, Software Development
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C – researchers at universities, pharmaceutical companies, government labs, and scientific journals; over 4 million scientists globally
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To empower scientists to visually communicate their science, turning ideas, data, and discoveries into clear, trustworthy visuals, and giving researchers time back to focus on their science.

## Products & Services
- **BioRender (SaaS)**: A web-based platform with no download required. It offers a library of over 50,000 scientifically accurate icons and templates from 30+ fields of biology. Users can build figures, graphs, and slides, and the platform now includes AI features that generate editable figures and allow precise edits using natural language. It also supports data graphing (import from Prism, CSV, Excel) and flowchart/protocol generation. The software is used for grants, journal submissions, presentations, and posters.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $17.3M (as of latest Series A in April 2023). The company is also reported to be profitable.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (lead investor in Seed and Series A rounds). Other investors in earlier rounds include undisclosed angels.
- **Growth Signals**: 199 employees (+16.2% YoY); 50+ active job postings (+78.6% YoY); over 24 million scientific figures created; users in 100+ countries; 500,000+ publication citations; trusted by top research institutions worldwide.

## Competitive Advantages
- **World’s largest library** of editable, scientifically accurate visuals, curated by industry professionals.
- **AI that gets the science right** – built on the library, it can generate and modify figures with contextual understanding of biology.
- **Deep domain expertise** – co-founder Shiz Aoki was a lead medical illustrator for National Geographic, and the team understands the unique challenges of scientific communication.
- **High switching costs** – deeply integrated into researchers’ workflows (figures, grants, publications); over 24M figures created and 500K citations.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI‑powered scientific communication**: Expanding AI features to accelerate figure creation and editing.
- **End‑to‑end workflow**: Integrating data analysis, graphing, figure creation, and presentation building into one platform.
- **Scaling enterprise sales**: Hiring for enterprise product marketing and account executives to serve large pharma and academic institutions.
- **Remote‑first growth**: Continuing to hire across the US and Canada, with a distributed team spanning 5 countries.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Passionate problem‑solvers at the intersection of science and technology; emphasis on science communication and impact.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Proudly remote‑first. Teams meet 2–4 times per year for hackathons and quarterly planning. Employees can work from another country for up to three months per year.
- **Perks and benefits**: Comprehensive health and dental (including mental health and HSA), equity ownership (all employees are part‑owners), salary top‑up and baby bonus for growing families, virtual lunch‑and‑learns, games, and happy hours.
- **Engineering culture**: Practical assessments in interviews; focus on skills and career growth; strong technical team (40 in technical roles, 16% of workforce). Average engineer salary ~$120K USD.

## Sources
1. [BioRender About Page](https://www.biorender.com/about)
2. [BioRender Careers Page](https://www.biorender.com/biorender-careers)
3. [BioRender Homepage](https://www.biorender.com/)
4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/biorender)
5. [Gem Careers Page](https://jobs.gem.com/biorender)

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