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Get Access To All JobsAre you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate! Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world. What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!
Who we are: Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education. We’ve since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world. Today we support more than 5,100 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies. With over 1,200 global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices worldwide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.
Job Description
The Opportunity: As the Director of Security Risk Engineering, you will serve as a key senior leader working in direct partnership with the CISO to drive, shape, and mature Flywire's global enterprise security infrastructure and systems. In this role, you will bridge the gap between high-level security strategy and tactical engineering execution across six core domains: Application Security, AI Security, Cloud Security, Corporate Security, Security Operations (SecOps), and Red Teaming (Penetration Testing). In partnership with the internal stakeholder organizations, you will lead the organizational shift from technical recovery to global enterprise operational resilience, managing a highly impactful program that safeguards our global payment rails while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. A solid working knowledge of all aspects of cloud-native infrastructure, software applications, AI/LLM model development, governance & validation, and automated risk mitigation is required.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic Domain Leadership: Define, implement, and monitor a comprehensive security engineering strategy across Application Security, AI Security, Cloud Security, Corporate Security, Security Operations (SecOps/Incident Detection & Response), and Red Teaming (Penetration Testing), aligning initiatives with global business objectives and emerging financial threats.
- Team Management & Mentorship: Support the CISO to lead and manage the global security engineering organization, including hiring, training, mentoring, performance management, and budget oversight.
- Secure Architecture & Governance: Oversee the design and continuous improvement of secure architecture for systems, cloud infrastructure, networks, and applications, ensuring strict alignment with security best practices.
- Global Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Business, Development, DevOps, Product, Program, Risk/Compliance, and IT leaders to seamlessly integrate security controls into all phases of the engineering and CI/CD lifecycle. Engage actively with external stakeholders, auditors and global regulators on related fronts.
- Advanced Cyber Risk Efficacy: Leverage AI and automated tooling to develop proactive measures, threat intelligence capabilities, and scalable defenses against vulnerabilities across all engineering domains.
- Adversarial / Penetration Testing: Personally adopt an attacker's mindset to identify complex attack chains, logic flaws, and zero-day vulnerabilities within financial platforms and product architectures.
- Incident Response & Operational Resilience: Direct and coordinate responses to critical enterprise security incidents, managing containment, forensic investigation, and rapid remediation efforts alongside SecOps.
- Regulatory Compliance Frameworks: Maintain an information security framework that ensures continuous readiness for strict industry audits and regulatory compliance requirements globally (e.g., NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS 4.0, DORA).
- Executive & Stakeholder Reporting: Define and maintain metrics that communicate security posture, program progress, and incident risk analysis to the CISO, senior executive leadership, and the Board.
- Innovation & Emerging Tech: Stay ahead of global fintech trends, adopting cutting-edge technologies and methodologies—specifically regarding secure AI deployment—to continuously strengthen the organization's security posture.
Qualifications
Here's What We're Looking For:
- Education: Bachelor's degree required in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field. A Master's degree is highly preferred.
- Core Experience: 12+ years of progressive experience in information security, IT risk management, or cyber defense roles. Must be an active technical practitioner with a proven track record of independently performing manual penetration testing, vulnerability exploitation, detection/response activities, and code reviews across cloud and application infrastructures, without relying solely on automated commercial tools.
- Leadership Experience: 3+ years of proven experience in senior leadership or management roles specifically within a security engineering organization, managing people, cross-functional teams and complex security programs.
- Domain Mastery: In-depth technical knowledge of security architecture, secure cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP), application security principles, and adversarial emulation (Red Teaming).
Highly Preferred Certifications
- Core Security: CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) or CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)
- Governance & Risk: CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control), CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor), or ISACA AAISM™ (Advanced in AI Security Management)
- Hands-On Offensive & AI: OffSec OSAI (Offensive Security AI Red Teamer), OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), OSCE (Offensive Security Certified Expert), or SANS GXPN (GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester)
Skills and Abilities
- Strategic & Tactical Balancer with a Commercial Mindset: Highly hands-on and technically skilled. Strong strategic thinker with the ability to contribute to and translate the CISO’s high-level vision into actionable plans and drive successful execution. Balances technical risk reduction with business enablement, ensuring security infrastructure serves as a competitive advantage that unblocks global revenue and enterprise-client acquisition.
- Executive Presence: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with a demonstrated ability to articulate complex security risks and technical concepts to both engineering teams and executive management/the Board.
- 2nd-Line Cyber Risk Oversight & Governance: Robust capability to operate as a strategic second-line risk leader. Proven experience defining enterprise security risk appetites, establishing governance frameworks, and executing independent control testing to validate that the first line (engineering/product teams) effectively manages cyber risk.
- Defense-in-Depth Expertise: Comprehensive understanding of modern system security design principles, intrusion prevention, API security, and automated vulnerability management.
- High-Pressure Decision Making: Demonstrated capability to prioritize tasks, maintain cross-functional transparency, and make critical risk decisions under pressure during live security incidents.
- Lateral Influencing / Influential Leadership: Ability to collaborate effectively as a trusted partner across the global organization, promoting a collaborative culture of continuous resilience and security awareness.
Additional Information
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Competitive time off, including Digital Disconnect and FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in.
- Work with brilliant people globally Learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
- Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
- Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
- Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers, OneFlywire Career Mobility)
Submit today and get started! We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $200,000 - 210,000 and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, position level, and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and several other factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education and training.
Flywire is an equal opportunity employer and follows a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, genetic disposition or carrier status, veteran status, or any other category protected under applicable national, federal, state or local law.
Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate! Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world. What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!
Who we are: Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education. We’ve since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world. Today we support more than 5,100 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies. With over 1,200 global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices worldwide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.
Job Description
The Opportunity: As the Director of Security Risk Engineering, you will serve as a key senior leader working in direct partnership with the CISO to drive, shape, and mature Flywire's global enterprise security infrastructure and systems. In this role, you will bridge the gap between high-level security strategy and tactical engineering execution across six core domains: Application Security, AI Security, Cloud Security, Corporate Security, Security Operations (SecOps), and Red Teaming (Penetration Testing). In partnership with the internal stakeholder organizations, you will lead the organizational shift from technical recovery to global enterprise operational resilience, managing a highly impactful program that safeguards our global payment rails while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. A solid working knowledge of all aspects of cloud-native infrastructure, software applications, AI/LLM model development, governance & validation, and automated risk mitigation is required.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic Domain Leadership: Define, implement, and monitor a comprehensive security engineering strategy across Application Security, AI Security, Cloud Security, Corporate Security, Security Operations (SecOps/Incident Detection & Response), and Red Teaming (Penetration Testing), aligning initiatives with global business objectives and emerging financial threats.
- Team Management & Mentorship: Support the CISO to lead and manage the global security engineering organization, including hiring, training, mentoring, performance management, and budget oversight.
- Secure Architecture & Governance: Oversee the design and continuous improvement of secure architecture for systems, cloud infrastructure, networks, and applications, ensuring strict alignment with security best practices.
- Global Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Business, Development, DevOps, Product, Program, Risk/Compliance, and IT leaders to seamlessly integrate security controls into all phases of the engineering and CI/CD lifecycle. Engage actively with external stakeholders, auditors and global regulators on related fronts.
- Advanced Cyber Risk Efficacy: Leverage AI and automated tooling to develop proactive measures, threat intelligence capabilities, and scalable defenses against vulnerabilities across all engineering domains.
- Adversarial / Penetration Testing: Personally adopt an attacker's mindset to identify complex attack chains, logic flaws, and zero-day vulnerabilities within financial platforms and product architectures.
- Incident Response & Operational Resilience: Direct and coordinate responses to critical enterprise security incidents, managing containment, forensic investigation, and rapid remediation efforts alongside SecOps.
- Regulatory Compliance Frameworks: Maintain an information security framework that ensures continuous readiness for strict industry audits and regulatory compliance requirements globally (e.g., NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS 4.0, DORA).
- Executive & Stakeholder Reporting: Define and maintain metrics that communicate security posture, program progress, and incident risk analysis to the CISO, senior executive leadership, and the Board.
- Innovation & Emerging Tech: Stay ahead of global fintech trends, adopting cutting-edge technologies and methodologies—specifically regarding secure AI deployment—to continuously strengthen the organization's security posture.
Qualifications
Here's What We're Looking For:
- Education: Bachelor's degree required in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field. A Master's degree is highly preferred.
- Core Experience: 12+ years of progressive experience in information security, IT risk management, or cyber defense roles. Must be an active technical practitioner with a proven track record of independently performing manual penetration testing, vulnerability exploitation, detection/response activities, and code reviews across cloud and application infrastructures, without relying solely on automated commercial tools.
- Leadership Experience: 3+ years of proven experience in senior leadership or management roles specifically within a security engineering organization, managing people, cross-functional teams and complex security programs.
- Domain Mastery: In-depth technical knowledge of security architecture, secure cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP), application security principles, and adversarial emulation (Red Teaming).
Highly Preferred Certifications
- Core Security: CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) or CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)
- Governance & Risk: CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control), CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor), or ISACA AAISM™ (Advanced in AI Security Management)
- Hands-On Offensive & AI: OffSec OSAI (Offensive Security AI Red Teamer), OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), OSCE (Offensive Security Certified Expert), or SANS GXPN (GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester)
Skills and Abilities
- Strategic & Tactical Balancer with a Commercial Mindset: Highly hands-on and technically skilled. Strong strategic thinker with the ability to contribute to and translate the CISO’s high-level vision into actionable plans and drive successful execution. Balances technical risk reduction with business enablement, ensuring security infrastructure serves as a competitive advantage that unblocks global revenue and enterprise-client acquisition.
- Executive Presence: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with a demonstrated ability to articulate complex security risks and technical concepts to both engineering teams and executive management/the Board.
- 2nd-Line Cyber Risk Oversight & Governance: Robust capability to operate as a strategic second-line risk leader. Proven experience defining enterprise security risk appetites, establishing governance frameworks, and executing independent control testing to validate that the first line (engineering/product teams) effectively manages cyber risk.
- Defense-in-Depth Expertise: Comprehensive understanding of modern system security design principles, intrusion prevention, API security, and automated vulnerability management.
- High-Pressure Decision Making: Demonstrated capability to prioritize tasks, maintain cross-functional transparency, and make critical risk decisions under pressure during live security incidents.
- Lateral Influencing / Influential Leadership: Ability to collaborate effectively as a trusted partner across the global organization, promoting a collaborative culture of continuous resilience and security awareness.
Additional Information
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Competitive time off, including Digital Disconnect and FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in.
- Work with brilliant people globally Learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
- Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
- Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
- Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers, OneFlywire Career Mobility)
Submit today and get started! We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $200,000 - 210,000 and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, position level, and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and several other factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education and training.
Flywire is an equal opportunity employer and follows a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, genetic disposition or carrier status, veteran status, or any other category protected under applicable national, federal, state or local law.
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Position the role as a specialty occupation
Security director roles can face USCIS scrutiny over whether they qualify as specialty occupations. Emphasize the degree requirement in cybersecurity, information systems, or criminal justice in your job offer letter and supporting documentation.
Target industries with established sponsorship track records
Technology, financial services, healthcare, and defense contractors sponsor security leadership roles most consistently. These industries have documented LCA filings and established HR processes for managing H-1B petitions for senior positions.
Build a portfolio of quantifiable security outcomes
USCIS and employers both respond to concrete results. Document incidents prevented, compliance frameworks implemented, and team sizes managed. Specific metrics strengthen both your visa petition and your negotiating position with sponsoring employers.
Consider the O-1A if you have industry recognition
Directors with published research, major breach response leadership, speaking at security conferences, or industry awards may qualify for O-1A extraordinary ability status, bypassing the H-1B lottery entirely and offering a faster, more certain path.
Understand the LCA prevailing wage implications for senior roles
Security director positions typically fall into Level III or IV prevailing wage categories under DOL standards. Confirm your employer is prepared to meet the certified wage before investing time in the sponsorship process.
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Not every company advertising security director roles will sponsor visas. Migrate Mate filters specifically for sponsorship-willing employers, saving you from applications that will stall once immigration requirements are raised in conversations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Director of Security role qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, but it depends on how the role is defined. USCIS requires that the position qualifies as a specialty occupation, meaning it normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as cybersecurity, information systems, or criminal justice. Generic management responsibilities without a specific degree requirement can complicate approval. A well-drafted job description that ties the role's duties directly to a technical discipline significantly strengthens the petition.
What degree does a Director of Security typically need for visa sponsorship?
Most employers require a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, criminal justice, or a related field. For H-1B visa purposes, the key is that the degree must be in a specific specialty relevant to the role, not just any bachelor's degree. Advanced degrees such as an MBA with a security focus or a master's in information assurance can further support the petition, especially for senior leadership positions.
Can a Director of Security qualify for the O-1A visa instead of the H-1B?
Yes, and for strong candidates it's often a better option. The O-1A requires demonstrating extraordinary ability in your field, which for security professionals can include leading incident response for a major organization, contributing to industry standards, speaking at recognized security conferences such as RSA or Black Hat, or receiving peer awards. O-1A petitions bypass the H-1B lottery, have no annual cap, and are adjudicated individually on merit.
How competitive is H-1B approval for Director of Security roles?
Approval rates for senior security roles are generally favorable once past the lottery, but USCIS occasionally issues Requests for Evidence questioning whether the position meets specialty occupation standards. Physical security director roles face more scrutiny than cybersecurity or information security director positions. Petitions supported by a detailed job description, a relevant employer need for a degreed professional, and strong candidate credentials tend to fare well.
Where can I find Director of Security jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the best starting point. The platform is built specifically for international candidates and filters for employers who are actively open to sponsoring work visas. This is important for Director of Security roles because many companies post these positions without considering immigration requirements upfront, and discovering that late wastes significant time during the hiring process.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Director Of Security jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.