# Lead - Cybersecurity

**Company**: Freshworks
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Freshworks is looking for a Lead - Cybersecurity to sit at the intersection of Cybersecurity, customer trust, and go-to-market. This role involves communicating complex cloud architecture and security posture to customers, building scalable systems, creating repeatable playbooks, and driving automation.

Responsibilities:

- Own the end-to-end experience of how Freshworks communicates its security story to the market

- Build scalable systems, create repeatable playbooks, and drive automation to reduce manual work

- Communicate complex security topics clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences

- Work across time zones and adapt to shifting schedules when customer needs require it

Qualifications:

- 4-10 years of experience in information security, with depth in application security architecture, cloud security (AWS), or security pre-sales/solutioning

- Strong understanding of web application frameworks, cloud-native architectures, and SaaS security models

- Proven ability to communicate complex security topics clearly and concisely

- Experience driving automation or process improvement in a security operations or GTM context

Technical Skills:

- Cloud security architecture and operations, with hands-on depth in AWS (IAM, VPC, KMS, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub)

- Web application security fundamentals: OWASP Top 10, secure SDLC, API security, and encryption standards (TLS, AES-256, key management)

- Working knowledge of SaaS security models, multi-tenant architecture, and shared responsibility frameworks

- Familiarity with security questionnaire and trust center platforms (e.g., Loopio, Responsive, SafeBase) and GRC tools (e.g., Drata, Vanta)

Certifications (Nice to have):

- CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)

- AWS Security Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect

- CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)

- CompTIA Security+ or equivalent foundational certification

Soft Skills:

- Executive-level communication: ability to distill complex security topics into clear, confident narratives

- Cross-functional influence: skilled at building alignment across Security Engineering, Legal, Product, Sales, and Customer Success without formal authority

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud security architecture
- Application security architecture
- Web application security
- SaaS security models
- AWS
- OWASP Top 10
- Secure SDLC
- API security
- Encryption standards
- Security questionnaire and trust center platforms
- GRC tools

### Nice to have
- CISSP
- AWS Security Specialty
- AWS Solutions Architect
- CISM
- CompTIA Security+

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