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Remote Director Of Security jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors including cybersecurity, financial services, healthcare technology, and enterprise software, where distributed teams need senior security leadership. Companies actively hiring remotely include IDEA Public Schools, OPSWAT, and Aledade. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Director of Security & Compliance
Location: Remote (United States)
Reports to: VP of Data & Technology Operations
Employment Type: Exempt/Full-Time
About StrongMind:
StrongMind is a remote-first education and technology company on a mission to transform learning for students, families, and educators across the country. For more than 25 years, we’ve partnered with schools and districts to deliver innovative, student-centered learning experiences powered by technology, compassion, and bold thinking.
We believe education should be flexible, human, and built for real life. That belief shapes how we design our products, support our partners, and work together as a team. At StrongMind, you’ll find smart people doing meaningful work, a culture rooted in trust and accountability, and leaders who genuinely care about both outcomes and people.
The Team You Will Join:
You’ll be part of the Data & Technology Operations team, working closely with IT Operations, Engineering, Data Science, Legal, leadership, and external security and compliance partners. This team is responsible for protecting StrongMind’s systems and data while building the security, privacy, and compliance programs that support our schools, products, employees, and customers.
This role sits alongside our IT Operations and Engineering teams and is designed to provide dedicated ownership of StrongMind’s security and compliance program. You’ll coordinate controls across teams without directly managing those teams and will provide direction to contracted security resources supporting hands-on implementation.
The team culture is collaborative, accountable, proactive, and mission-driven. You’ll have significant opportunities to build programs from the ground up, influence security strategy, strengthen organizational practices, and help scale StrongMind’s security and compliance capabilities as the company grows.
The Difference You Will Make:
In this role, your work will directly impact students, families, schools, employees, and StrongMind’s technology environment by ensuring our security, privacy, and compliance programs are thoughtfully designed, consistently implemented, and continuously improved.
You’ll own StrongMind’s security and compliance program, including SOC 2, student data privacy, access governance, third-party risk, incident readiness, and AI governance. Your work will help protect sensitive student and family information, strengthen organizational trust, and ensure our security and compliance practices keep pace with the evolving education and technology landscape.
This is a high-ownership opportunity for someone who can build a program from the ground up, coordinate across teams, and turn policies and requirements into processes that actually operate.
A Typical Day Looks Like:
While no two days are exactly the same, you can expect to:
- Own the SOC 2 program end to end, including scope, control design, evidence collection, auditor relationships, Type I and Type II attestation, and ongoing annual reattestation.
- Coordinate security and compliance controls across IT Operations and Engineering, ensuring control owners understand expectations and provide appropriate evidence on schedule.
- Establish and maintain access governance policies covering provisioning, access reviews, and revocation across the organization.
- Manage operational compliance requirements related to COPPA, FERPA, state student privacy laws, and public records obligations in partnership with Legal.
- Build and maintain a risk-based vendor and third-party risk management program across cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and education-specific vendors.
- Monitor internal security posture, including cloud security findings, corporate SaaS security, and overall defensive readiness.
- Develop and maintain incident response plans, breach preparedness procedures, runbooks, and tabletop exercises.
- Partner with the AI committee and Data Science organization to establish responsible governance for AI systems that interact with student data and evaluate security and privacy considerations for AI-enabled products and vendors.
- Direct contracted security resources, including vCISO or specialist support, ensuring implementation work aligns with program priorities and organizational needs.
- Establish recurring processes for vendor risk reviews, access reviews, evidence collection, control monitoring, and leadership reporting.
- Provide leadership with clear, actionable risk reporting to support informed organizational decision-making.
This role balances strategic program ownership, cross-functional collaboration, risk management, and execution and is well-suited for someone who enjoys building programs, solving complex problems, creating structure, and influencing outcomes across teams.
Your Expertise Includes:
- Demonstrated experience owning and operating a security and compliance program, ideally through at least one SOC 2 attestation from program buildout through final report.
- Strong understanding of security controls, compliance frameworks, risk management, and audit processes.
- Proven ability to coordinate controls and drive accountability across teams you do not directly manage.
- Experience directing contractors, consultants, vCISOs, or other external security resources.
- Experience working in K–12, education technology, or another highly regulated data environment.
- Strong understanding of student privacy requirements, including COPPA and FERPA, or comparable privacy and regulatory frameworks.
- Experience building security and compliance programs from the ground up and translating policies into repeatable, operational processes.
- Strong communication, organization, and project management skills with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to identify risk, communicate its potential impact, and establish practical strategies for mitigation.
- Ability and willingness to grow a security and compliance function as StrongMind’s needs and technology portfolio expand.
Bonus points if you also have:
- Direct EdTech experience or experience working with state student privacy laws and statewide data privacy agreements.
- Experience with compliance automation platforms such as Vanta, Drata, Delve, or similar tools.
- Experience with cloud security posture management tools such as Wiz or similar platforms.
- Experience supporting GDPR compliance or international privacy programs.
- CISSP, CISM, CISA, or comparable security or compliance certification.
- Experience governing AI systems or evaluating AI vendors in a regulated data environment.
Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging:
We believe the best ideas come from bringing together people with different perspectives, experiences, and ways of thinking. We are committed to welcoming a broad range of talent and encouraging all qualified individuals to apply. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and is empowered to contribute, grow, and do meaningful work.
How We'll Take Care of You:
We believe that when people feel supported, they do their best work.
Our commitment to you includes:
- A competitive total compensation package, including medical, dental, vision, and voluntary benefits
- Well-being that works for real life—from an on-site gym, virtual wellness programs, and wellness coaching to flexible work options for select roles, because your well-being fuels your brilliance
- Unlimited PTO for salaried roles and “life happens” days when you need flexibility
- A fully paid holiday week off at Christmas, so you can truly rest, reset, and reconnect
- Recognition and rewards that celebrate birthdays, meaningful anniversary milestones, and community service hours that let you give back
- Quarterly Town Halls that keep communication transparent, honest, and human
- Annual social events and traditions we genuinely look forward to—like Halloween celebrations, Wellness Fairs, and other moments that bring our community together
We’re intentional about building a workplace where people feel valued, connected, and empowered to thrive—at work and beyond.
Additional Info:
We welcome all qualified candidates eligible to work in the United States. At this time, we are unable to sponsor visas.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide consideration to all applicants regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, veteran status, marital status, or disability protected by law.
Director of Security & Compliance
Location: Remote (United States)
Reports to: VP of Data & Technology Operations
Employment Type: Exempt/Full-Time
About StrongMind:
StrongMind is a remote-first education and technology company on a mission to transform learning for students, families, and educators across the country. For more than 25 years, we’ve partnered with schools and districts to deliver innovative, student-centered learning experiences powered by technology, compassion, and bold thinking.
We believe education should be flexible, human, and built for real life. That belief shapes how we design our products, support our partners, and work together as a team. At StrongMind, you’ll find smart people doing meaningful work, a culture rooted in trust and accountability, and leaders who genuinely care about both outcomes and people.
The Team You Will Join:
You’ll be part of the Data & Technology Operations team, working closely with IT Operations, Engineering, Data Science, Legal, leadership, and external security and compliance partners. This team is responsible for protecting StrongMind’s systems and data while building the security, privacy, and compliance programs that support our schools, products, employees, and customers.
This role sits alongside our IT Operations and Engineering teams and is designed to provide dedicated ownership of StrongMind’s security and compliance program. You’ll coordinate controls across teams without directly managing those teams and will provide direction to contracted security resources supporting hands-on implementation.
The team culture is collaborative, accountable, proactive, and mission-driven. You’ll have significant opportunities to build programs from the ground up, influence security strategy, strengthen organizational practices, and help scale StrongMind’s security and compliance capabilities as the company grows.
The Difference You Will Make:
In this role, your work will directly impact students, families, schools, employees, and StrongMind’s technology environment by ensuring our security, privacy, and compliance programs are thoughtfully designed, consistently implemented, and continuously improved.
You’ll own StrongMind’s security and compliance program, including SOC 2, student data privacy, access governance, third-party risk, incident readiness, and AI governance. Your work will help protect sensitive student and family information, strengthen organizational trust, and ensure our security and compliance practices keep pace with the evolving education and technology landscape.
This is a high-ownership opportunity for someone who can build a program from the ground up, coordinate across teams, and turn policies and requirements into processes that actually operate.
A Typical Day Looks Like:
While no two days are exactly the same, you can expect to:
- Own the SOC 2 program end to end, including scope, control design, evidence collection, auditor relationships, Type I and Type II attestation, and ongoing annual reattestation.
- Coordinate security and compliance controls across IT Operations and Engineering, ensuring control owners understand expectations and provide appropriate evidence on schedule.
- Establish and maintain access governance policies covering provisioning, access reviews, and revocation across the organization.
- Manage operational compliance requirements related to COPPA, FERPA, state student privacy laws, and public records obligations in partnership with Legal.
- Build and maintain a risk-based vendor and third-party risk management program across cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and education-specific vendors.
- Monitor internal security posture, including cloud security findings, corporate SaaS security, and overall defensive readiness.
- Develop and maintain incident response plans, breach preparedness procedures, runbooks, and tabletop exercises.
- Partner with the AI committee and Data Science organization to establish responsible governance for AI systems that interact with student data and evaluate security and privacy considerations for AI-enabled products and vendors.
- Direct contracted security resources, including vCISO or specialist support, ensuring implementation work aligns with program priorities and organizational needs.
- Establish recurring processes for vendor risk reviews, access reviews, evidence collection, control monitoring, and leadership reporting.
- Provide leadership with clear, actionable risk reporting to support informed organizational decision-making.
This role balances strategic program ownership, cross-functional collaboration, risk management, and execution and is well-suited for someone who enjoys building programs, solving complex problems, creating structure, and influencing outcomes across teams.
Your Expertise Includes:
- Demonstrated experience owning and operating a security and compliance program, ideally through at least one SOC 2 attestation from program buildout through final report.
- Strong understanding of security controls, compliance frameworks, risk management, and audit processes.
- Proven ability to coordinate controls and drive accountability across teams you do not directly manage.
- Experience directing contractors, consultants, vCISOs, or other external security resources.
- Experience working in K–12, education technology, or another highly regulated data environment.
- Strong understanding of student privacy requirements, including COPPA and FERPA, or comparable privacy and regulatory frameworks.
- Experience building security and compliance programs from the ground up and translating policies into repeatable, operational processes.
- Strong communication, organization, and project management skills with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to identify risk, communicate its potential impact, and establish practical strategies for mitigation.
- Ability and willingness to grow a security and compliance function as StrongMind’s needs and technology portfolio expand.
Bonus points if you also have:
- Direct EdTech experience or experience working with state student privacy laws and statewide data privacy agreements.
- Experience with compliance automation platforms such as Vanta, Drata, Delve, or similar tools.
- Experience with cloud security posture management tools such as Wiz or similar platforms.
- Experience supporting GDPR compliance or international privacy programs.
- CISSP, CISM, CISA, or comparable security or compliance certification.
- Experience governing AI systems or evaluating AI vendors in a regulated data environment.
Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging:
We believe the best ideas come from bringing together people with different perspectives, experiences, and ways of thinking. We are committed to welcoming a broad range of talent and encouraging all qualified individuals to apply. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and is empowered to contribute, grow, and do meaningful work.
How We'll Take Care of You:
We believe that when people feel supported, they do their best work.
Our commitment to you includes:
- A competitive total compensation package, including medical, dental, vision, and voluntary benefits
- Well-being that works for real life—from an on-site gym, virtual wellness programs, and wellness coaching to flexible work options for select roles, because your well-being fuels your brilliance
- Unlimited PTO for salaried roles and “life happens” days when you need flexibility
- A fully paid holiday week off at Christmas, so you can truly rest, reset, and reconnect
- Recognition and rewards that celebrate birthdays, meaningful anniversary milestones, and community service hours that let you give back
- Quarterly Town Halls that keep communication transparent, honest, and human
- Annual social events and traditions we genuinely look forward to—like Halloween celebrations, Wellness Fairs, and other moments that bring our community together
We’re intentional about building a workplace where people feel valued, connected, and empowered to thrive—at work and beyond.
Additional Info:
We welcome all qualified candidates eligible to work in the United States. At this time, we are unable to sponsor visas.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide consideration to all applicants regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, veteran status, marital status, or disability protected by law.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Education
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote director of security jobs.
- Ten or more years of progressive security operations or law enforcement leadership experience
- Certified Protection Professional (CPP) designation from ASIS International
- Experience developing and implementing enterprise-wide physical security programs
- Proficiency with access control and video surveillance platforms such as Genetec or Lenel
- Bachelor's degree in criminal justice, security management, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional incident response and crisis communication
Tips for Your Remote Director Of Security Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote director of security openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through mixed location listings.
Prove async leadership in your application materials
Remote employers want evidence you can run a security program without daily in-person check-ins. Include specific examples of written security policies, async incident response runbooks, or distributed team initiatives you led from start to finish.
Show measurable security program outcomes
Remote hiring managers can't observe your work style firsthand, so documented results carry extra weight. Quantify risk reduction, audit outcomes, compliance milestones, or response time improvements you drove in previous roles to make your impact concrete.
Target companies with distributed security teams
Remote director of security roles cluster at cloud-native firms, remote-first SaaS companies, and managed security service providers. Focusing on employers whose entire security function is distributed increases your chances of finding a role built for remote work rather than adapted from an on-site structure.
Remote Director Of Security Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote director of security job?
Target remote-first technology companies, managed security service providers, and cloud-native firms, which hire directors of security remotely far more often than traditional enterprises. Remote employers screen hard for async written communication, self-directed decision-making under ambiguity, and the ability to lead distributed security teams without in-person oversight. Candidates who document past incident response outcomes, cross-functional program leadership, and measurable risk reduction stand out most.
Which companies hire remote director of securitys?
Remote director of security roles are posted by IDEA Public Schools, OPSWAT, and Aledade and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. These tend to be remote-first technology firms, SaaS companies, and financial services organizations whose distributed workforces make centralized, location-independent security leadership a practical necessity.
Can you get a remote director of security job with no experience?
Yes, but entry-level remote director of security roles are rare because the position demands independent judgment from day one, with no in-office manager nearby to provide guidance. Candidates without direct director-level experience can strengthen their case by building a portfolio of security program documentation, leading open-source or volunteer security initiatives, and earning recognized certifications such as CISSP or CISM that signal readiness for senior remote responsibility.
Do you need a degree for remote director of security jobs?
Not always. Remote employers in cybersecurity and technology consistently weigh demonstrated program leadership, certifications, and measurable security outcomes alongside formal education. A candidate who can show they built or scaled a security program, reduced organizational risk, and communicated findings to executive stakeholders will often be competitive even without a four-year degree, particularly at remote-first companies that prioritize results over credentials.
Which industries hire the most remote director of securitys?
The sectors hiring the most remote director of securitys are Education and Consulting & Professional Services, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. These industries rely on distributed teams and cloud infrastructure, making it practical and often preferable to place senior security leadership in a fully remote capacity.
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