Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.
About Superhuman
Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here.
The Opportunity
Superhuman is on a mission to build the fastest, most delightful productivity experiences powered by AI. As we scale rapidly, our internal technology operations must evolve to match our ambition.
We’re looking for a Security Engineer to join our Corporate Technology team. Our commitment to user trust is unwavering, and this new team member will play a crucial role in protecting Superhuman’s corporate environment and the infrastructure that millions of users depend on. Working closely with the Corporate Infrastructure team, you will harden and secure the systems our employees rely on every day, Identity and Access Management, Endpoint Management, SaaS platforms, and Networking, while ensuring that security enables speed rather than slowing it down.
This is an opportunity to build and maintain critical security programs, including Insider Risk, Threat and Vulnerability Management, and Third-Party Risk. You’ll leverage AI to build smarter security controls and processes, and help define how AI itself is secured across our corporate infrastructure. Your work will empower employees to move fast while maintaining a high bar for corporate security.
In this role, you will:
- Design, build, and maintain corporate security controls that enable employees to move fast with confidence, making the secure path the easiest path.
- Develop security standards, guidelines, and policies in collaboration with the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team.
- Leverage AI to build and scale security controls, automate security processes, and accelerate threat detection and response across our corporate infrastructure.
- Define and implement AI security standards for the corporate environment, ensuring employees can safely adopt AI-powered tools and workflows.
- Perform risk assessments and security assurance on systems that support Superhuman’s business operations: IdP, operating systems, desktop applications, SaaS solutions, and network infrastructure (ZTNA, CASB, VPN).
- Lead the design and execution of a corporate Zero Trust architecture, working across identity, endpoint, and network security.
- Drive the remediation of security vulnerabilities identified through assessments.
- Evaluate and implement cutting-edge enterprise security technology to continuously strengthen our security posture.
Qualifications
- Has 6+ years of experience working on a Security team in corporate security, enterprise security, or a related domain for a SaaS company.
- Expert-level understanding and experience in at least two corporate security domains: Identity and Access Management, Endpoint Management, SaaS platforms, and Networking.
- Strong experience with data protection technologies (DSPM, discovery, masking, access controls, DLP, backup).
- Strong experience with assessing the configuration of common SaaS applications (SSPM), such as Salesforce, Workday, Coupa.
- Strong experience with both MacOS and Windows endpoint security.
- Familiarity with AI security principles and practical knowledge of how to secure AI adoption in a corporate environment.
- Demonstrated experience using AI to build security controls, automate security processes, or scale security operations.
- Ability to assess risk in ambiguous situations and make balanced security decisions that consider both offensive and defensive perspectives.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and manage up effectively.
- A mindset that security should enable speed, experience designing controls that protect without creating unnecessary friction.
Compensation and Benefits
Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more:
- Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
- Disability and life insurance options
- 401(k) and RRSP matching
- Paid parental leave
- 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
- Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
- Annual professional development budget and opportunities
Superhuman takes a market-based approach to compensation so that base pay may vary by location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.
Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position, by compensation zone, are outlined and may be modified in the future.
We encourage you to apply
At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Superhuman is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).