Head of Security

Join Eight Sleep's mission to fuel human potential through optimal sleep. As the Head of Security, you will be responsible for building and leading the company's security strategy across physical, digital, and operational domains.

Requirements

• Define and own Eight Sleep's end-to-end security strategy across cloud, product, corporate, and customer environments.
• Serve as the primary security advisor to the executive team—translating risk into clear business decisions and helping set the company's security posture and risk tolerance.
• Build and scale Eight Sleep's security program, including roadmap, processes, metrics, and future team structure.
• Oversee security architecture and practices for software, cloud infrastructure, connected devices (IoT), and data storage.
• Ensure compliance with security frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA).
• Lead vulnerability management, threat detection, and incident response.
• Develop protocols for access management, disaster recovery, and crisis response.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to embed security-by-design into all Eight Sleep products.
• Guide threat modeling for cloud services, mobile apps, and hardware/firmware components.
• Implement privacy and security controls that protect customer data and build trust.
• Conduct penetration tests, risk assessments, and security audits.
• Lead Eight Sleep's compliance programs (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR) and partner with legal on privacy obligations.
• Establish policies, training programs, and awareness initiatives across the organization.
• Lead third-party risk management and vendor security reviews.
• Stay ahead of evolving global regulations around data privacy and security.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equitable compensation and continuous equity investment
• Immediate responsibility and accelerated career growth
• Collaboration with exceptional talent
• Your own Pod (the company's flagship product)
• Other great benefits