Information Security, Director

About Panorama:
Panorama Education is a fast-growing technology company partnering with K-12 school districts to help students succeed in the classroom and beyond. Today, 2,000 districts serving 15 million students across all 50 states rely on our secure, research-backed platform for AI, student support, and community voice and engagement. We also provide professional development and hands-on support to help schools to achieve their strategic goals and improve student outcomes. When you join Panorama, you become part of a mission-driven team making a real impact for students every day.

Panoramians can choose to work fully remote anywhere within the Continental United States.

About the Role:

Every day, teachers, principals, and school district leaders nationwide use Panorama’s platform to improve student outcomes across academics, family engagement, attendance, well-being, and college-career readiness. As a result, Panorama is the fastest growing platform in K-12 education, and 1 in 4 American students attends a school that has adopted Panorama.

Panorama is seeking a Information Security DIrector to lead and continuously improve our security program. This role sits at the intersection of policy, compliance, engineering, client enablement, and business risk management. The position requires a thoughtful, strategic, and hands-on professional who can manage competing priorities, adapt to shifting client expectations, and ensure Panorama continues to earn and maintain the trust of school districts nationwide.

In this mission-driven environment centered on equity and student outcomes, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the evolving security posture of an AI-forward company serving enterprise-level education clients. This highly cross-functional role provides broad organizational visibility, influence, and ownership of a security program that is both mature and evolving, with meaningful connections to teams across Sales, Client Success, Legal, IT, and Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve Panorama’s security program, ensuring high standards across compliance, vendor and tool reviews, secure operational practices, incident response, and documentation.
• Maintain and renew existing certifications, such as SOC 2 Type 2, while preparing for future certifications, including support for associated activities such as cyber insurance renewals, policy updates, audit evidence gathering, and internal assessments.
• Own Panorama’s security posture representation in client-facing materials such as RFPs, procurement checklists, and due diligence questionnaires—scaling up to lead more involved efforts such as third-party penetration testing when required by strategic accounts.
• Create and maintain clear, externally consumable summaries of our security practices, helping Sales and Client Success accelerate deals and retain client confidence.
• Equip senior leaders with a clear view of security posture and progress by synthesizing operational data—including KPIs—into briefings that support planning, prioritization, and investment decisions.
• Refine and execute processes for secure evaluation of new vendors, integrations, AI applications, browser extensions, and system-level tools—ensuring thoughtful adoption of tools while preserving a strong security posture.
• Guide Panorama’s secure and responsible use of AI, including product integrations, employee tools, and external messaging around security implications.
• Sustain Panorama’s strong international compliance posture, particularly around client-specific data residency requirements.
• Lead annual security awareness training and other internal enablement activities to promote a security-conscious culture and behavior across the organization.
• Continuously review and improve internal security policies and practices to stay aligned with client expectations, compliance standards, and industry best practices.

Our Ideal Candidate Has:

• 3+ years of experience in information security roles, including responsibility for audits, vendor reviews, and program-level decisions.
• Expertise in Platform and Application Security with strong GRC, Security Operations, and Enterprise Security experience.
• Extensive knowledge of information security, including deep expertise in security policy, risk management, vulnerability management, incident response, and compliance regulations.
• General knowledge of FERPA, PPRA, and COPPA.
• Experience preparing organizations for SOC2.
• The ability to learn quickly and hit the ground running.
• Strong communication skills.
• Demonstrated desire to be a continuous learner.

The starting base salary for this position is $ 202,500. Actual offers depend on experience, skill and location.

Our salary is just one component of Panorama’s competitive total rewards strategy that also includes annual bonuses or commission awards, equity awards, as well as other region-specific health and welfare benefits

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