plaid - Senior Security Analyst, Security Risk Management
Requirements
• Security risk assessment: • Experience running scenario-based analyses of technical risks (cloud, IAM, software supply chain, application and product) using NIST SP 800-30, FAIR, or a comparable method. • Technical depth to engage engineers on architecture and controls, and to tell a real exposure from a hypothetical one. • Risk program maturity and ERM integration: • Experience building or maturing a security risk program—methodology, register, treatment and exception workflow, and key risk indicators. • Experience integrating security risk into an enterprise risk management program. • Risk reporting and executive communication: • Experience preparing quarterly risk reporting and building security risk content for executive and board decks. • Ability to turn technical risk into a concise executive narrative without overstating or hand-waving. • Security and compliance knowledge: • Working knowledge of NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and SOC 2, and how risk management feeds each. • AI fluency and tooling: • Power user who has built AI skills, agents, or automations that materially increase risk-program throughput—and who shares what works with the team. • Hands-on FedRAMP 20x experience, including Security Decision Record reporting for rules and Key Security Indicators (SDR-CSO-FRR, SDR-CSX-KSI). • Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Responsibilities
• Run Security Risk Assessments: Triage intake, run scenario-based risk analyses with engineering SMEs, score initial and residual risk, and drive risk owners to a documented treatment decision. Your analysis turns vague concerns into decisions leadership can stand behind. • Build Quarterly Risk Reporting: Gather updates on material risks, prepare the Security Risk Review, and build the security risk content for executive and board decks. Your reporting gives leadership a clear, current view of where security risk sits and what’s being done about it. • Integrate Security Risk into ERM: Partner with enterprise risk stakeholders to map security risks into the enterprise taxonomy, align rating scales, and keep the registers in sync. Your work puts security risk alongside business risk instead of in a silo. • Mature the Program: Help evolve the risk framework, register, key risk indicators, and risk-owner self-service as the program’s scope grows. Your work moves the program from tracking risks to measuring and reducing them. • Support FedRAMP 20x Risk Decisions: Help make sure unmet FedRAMP rules and KSI gaps carry a documented risk explanation and senior-official acceptance in the Security Decision Record, consistent with the risk register. Your work keeps Plaid’s FedRAMP risk posture defensible to agencies and assessors. • Scale Through AI and Automation: Build AI skills and automations for intake triage, first-draft risk analyses, register hygiene, and report generation—and share them across the team. Your approach lets the program cover more risk without adding headcount.
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