At Base, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to succeed in the global e-commerce landscape. We provide a technology platform that revolutionizes their online sales operations.Our international team, spanning from Europe to the Americas, delivers a comprehensive, all-in-one solution to thousands of merchants worldwide. We offer seamless integrations with industry leaders, including Amazon, eBay, Shopify, DHL, and FedEx.
As Base continues to scale globally and handle millions of e-commerce transactions across international markets, security is a core pillar of our platform’s trust and resilience. We are looking for an energetic, threat-informed Global Head of Security / CISO to take ownership of our established security program and lead it through our next phase of hyper-growth.
This is not a greenfield role. We already operate a solid security foundation with an active ISO/IEC 27001 certification and an established SOC. Your mission will be to act as a practical business enabler—strengthening our cyber-resilience, preparing us for SOC 2 readiness, and partnering closely with Engineering, Product, and Executive teams to ensure our platform remains secure, compliant, and ready for responsible AI integration.
Key responsibilities:
- Own and evolve Base’s security strategy, roadmap, governance and operating model.
- Lead, mentor and develop the security team, ensuring clear priorities, accountability and professional growth.
- Preserve effective existing capabilities while closing material security and compliance gaps.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to strengthen product, API, cloud, identity, software supply-chain and AI security.
- Provide strategic oversight of the established SOC, major incidents and cyber-resilience capabilities.
- Maintain and continually improve Base’s ISO/IEC 27001-certified ISMS, lead the phased journey toward SOC 2 readiness and attestation, and ensure security controls evolve with regulatory, contractual and customer requirements.
- Enable secure use of AI in products, software development, code review, internal automation and security operations.
- Translate security risks into clear business decisions, priorities and investment needs.
- Represent Base in executive discussions, strategic customer reviews, audits and due-diligence processes.
Expected impact:
- A focused security strategy aligned with Base’s business priorities.
- A strong, engaged and effectively organised security team.
- Closer cooperation between Security, Product and Engineering.
- Measurable reduction of material security and compliance gaps.
- Secure and responsible adoption of AI and internal automation.
- Clear executive visibility of security risk and programme effectiveness.
Your profile (what we look for):
- Senior security leadership experience in a SaaS, e-commerce, marketplace or cloud-native technology company.
- Proven experience taking ownership of and maturing an established security programme.
- Experience leading and mentoring security professionals.
- Broad understanding of product security, cloud, IAM, secure software development, security operations and incident response.
- Broad, vendor-agnostic experience across modern security technologies, with the ability to assess, integrate, simplify and evolve the security stack as the organisation scales.
- Practical experience with ISO/IEC 27001, risk management, customer assurance and SOC 2 readiness.
- Understanding of AI security, AI-assisted development and security automation.
- Strong business judgement and the ability to work effectively with executives, engineers, customers and auditors.
- Fluent Polish and English
What we offer / Why Base.com?
- Pivotal role in an expert team where your contributions have an immediate and visible impact on the business
- Direct access to C-level leadership, full ownership of the global security strategy, and quick decision-making without corporate red tape.
- Real space to integrate AI into security automation and shape secure architecture for high-scale, cloud-native products.
- Growth opportunity in a place focused on long-term collaboration and your personal growth
- Competitive package & flexibility: attractive compensation and a flexible work model tailored for modern leaders
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