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Posted 3 hours agoHead of Security
Santa Monica, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Identify the company's most critical assets, prioritize risk accordingly, and build a program that scales alongside a fast-growing platform and team. - Partner with engineering to embed security into the platform Work closely with engineering and infrastructure teams to ensure security is built into how we design, develop, and deploy — from cloud architecture and CI/CD pipelines to data access controls and third-party integrations.
Requirements
- Pivotal Health combines software, data, and service into a seamlessly integrated, AI-driven platform that simplifies these complex reimbursement workflows.
- This is a rare opportunity to define what security looks like at a fast-growing, AI-native healthcare technology company handling sensitive provider data and complex financial workflows.
- Work with teams outside of engineering — including finance, operations, and people — to ensure security practices extend beyond the codebase and into how the whole organization operates. - Develop guidelines for emerging technologies As an AI-native company, Pivotal is actively building with and around LLMs and AI tooling.
- experience in security, with meaningful exposure to both technical implementation and program-level strategy - Strong working knowledge of cloud security, infrastructure security, and application security fundamentals, enough to engage credibly with engineering teams and evaluate tradeoffs -
- experience with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, or similar) including control design, audit preparation, and ongoing management - Comfortable representing security externally to customers, auditors, and partners with the communication skills to make complex topics accessible - A collaborator and influencer, not just a gatekeeper: you know how to bring stakeholders along and build trust across functions - Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building from scratch: you're energized by greenfield work,
- Experience in HealthTech, FinTech, or other regulated industries handling sensitive data - Background working with financial systems, payments infrastructure, or data-intensive platforms - Familiarity with AI/LLM security considerations and responsible AI deployment practices -
- Experience managing or growing a security team WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE We’re a collaborative, low-ego team on a mission to make healthcare reimbursement fairer for providers.
Experience
- WHO YOU ARE - 8+ years of
Benefits
- ABOUT PIVOTAL HEALTH Pivotal Health is the leading technology platform that helps healthcare providers get paid fairly in an increasingly complex reimbursement landscape.
- Today, many providers face persistent underpayment from health insurance companies, despite delivering high-quality care.
- Benefits Include: - Competitive compensation, including equity - Full health, dental, and vision coverage - Retirement savings plan through 401(k) - Flexible time off - Opportunities for company-wide connection and events Ready to Make an Impact? We’re building something meaningful; and we want you on the team.
- Bring your ideas, curiosity, and drive, and let’s transform healthcare reimbursement together.
- Equal Employment Opportunity Pivotal Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Additional details
- While processes like IDR (Independent Dispute Resolution) were designed to promote fairness, they’re often administrative-heavy, time-consuming, and difficult to navigate without the right tools.
- We help providers efficiently dispute underpaid claims, reduce administrative burden, and recover the reimbursement they’re entitled to; without adding more work to already stretched teams.
- Our full-service IDR solution is just the starting point.
- We’re building solutions that enable providers to operate with clarity, control, and confidence across the reimbursement journey.
- ABOUT THE ROLE We're hiring Pivotal's Head of Security, a senior leader who will own the company's security program from the ground up.
- This role sits at the intersection of strategy, engineering, compliance, and customer trust.
- You'll work closely with key stakeholders across the organization to embed security across the organization.
- Not just as a technical function, but as a core part of how Pivotal builds, operates, and earns the confidence of the providers and partners it serves.
- You'll bring enough technical depth to engage credibly with our engineering teams, and enough breadth to set organizational strategy, navigate the regulatory landscape, and represent Pivotal's security posture to customers, auditors, and key stakeholders.
- If you're energized by building something meaningful from scratch and want your work to matter beyond a checklist, this is the role for you.