Cybersecurity Officer

About Waymark Waymark is a mission-driven team of healthcare providers, technologists, and builders working to transform care for people with Medicaid benefits. We partner with communities to deliver technology-enabled, human-centered support that helps patients stay healthy and thrive. We’re designing tools and systems that bring care directly to those who need it most—removing barriers and reimagining what’s possible in Medicaid healthcare delivery. Our Values At Waymark, our values are the foundation of how we work, grow, and support one another: Bold Builders: We tackle the toughest challenges in care delivery by harnessing the power of community and technology. Humble Learners: We seek feedback, embrace diverse perspectives, and welcome challenges to our assumptions. Experiment to Improve: We use data to inform decisions and continuously assess our performance. Focused Urgency: Our mission drives us to act swiftly and relentlessly in pursuit of meaningful results. If this resonates with you, we invite you to bring your creativity, energy, and curiosity to Waymark. About this role As the Cybersecurity Officer for Waymark, you will be responsible for advancing our core mission through the development of robust programs encompassing information security. As an organization working with patients and providers to improve health outcomes, it is critical to build and maintain appropriate systems and safeguards designed to protect the integrity and confidentiality of information. You are technical, a strong operator, and strategic thinker, looking to build, improve, and scale reliable security processes whenever possible. Your leadership of the information security program at Waymark will include all facets of cybersecurity, and the associated user experience of our remote teams, and community-based care workers. You will be responsible for security policy and implementation and operation of technical and administrative safeguards to support those policies. You will use your experience to inform sound judgement to achieve the appropriate management of security risks in a manner consistent with the company’s values. You will use your in-depth knowledge of security in a modern cloud based organization, to identify and address risks to the company, through a combination of hands-on technical contributions and directing and overseeing staff with security responsibilities. You will interact with the broader executive leadership team to communicate evolving needs, matching the security strategy to the size and stage of growth of the company and the information we safeguard. This is a remote friendly position that can be located anywhere in the United States. Key Responsibilities Duties Oversee the internal cybersecurity program, road map, and strategy, which includes developing and implementing procedures and policies designed to protect Waymark communications, systems, and assets from internal and external threats and that safeguards health information. Oversee and manage Waymark’s MSSP and outsourced IT vendor, including responsibility for security and IT budgets, and IT tools used by Waymark. Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance leadership to determine risks and deploy risk management processes, supporting Waymark’s secure software development lifecycle and ensuring that our internally developed products and services meet the expectations of our patients, customers and regulators Own, define and oversee the necessary security operational functions such as Identity Management, Vulnerability Management, Incident Response, Security Awareness, and Vendor Risk Management Serve as Waymark’s HIPAA Security Officer, ensuring compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule, working closely with the legal team to document, review, maintain, and implement standards, policies, and procedures within security disciplines. Lead the strategy, implementation, and maintenance of industry-standard security certificat ... (truncated, view full listing at source)