Security Governance Lead

About The Role

The Sui Foundation is seeking a security-focused individual contributor to support and execute security governance programs across the Foundation and its ecosystem. This is a cybersecurity program manager role requiring hands-on governance execution.

This Security Governance Lead role will be responsible for coordinating and delivering cross-functional technology and security initiatives, maintaining security governance processes and documentation, and supporting DeFi security efforts through structured program execution and partner engagement. The position operates at the intersection of security, technical operations, and program management. The role requires both strategic coordination and tactical security deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive cross-functional security governance programs across Security, TechOps, Legal, Finance, and external partners, with clear accountability for outcomes.
• Lead end-to-end execution of security initiatives, defining scope, sequencing work, setting timelines, managing dependencies, and proactively mitigating delivery and security risk.
• Manage senior and cross-functional stakeholders by setting expectations, communicating trade-offs, surfacing risks early, and driving decisions.
• Support DeFi security programs by defining partner security requirements and managing security artifact collection.
• Serve as the central point of coordination for security governance initiatives across internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Translate security priorities into clear, actionable plans and communicate progress, risks, and dependencies to diverse audiences.
• Identify and resolve cross-functional blockers impacting security program execution.
• Design and implement scalable workflows and operating rhythms to improve speed, transparency, and consistency across security programs.
• Draft and maintain security policies, standards, and governance documentation.
• Own security artifacts, risk tracking, and control implementation workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating cybersecurity governance programs.
• Comfortable operating as a senior individual contributor with full ownership over scope, execution, and delivery.
• Ability to translate security priorities into clear, actionable plans, communicating progress, risks, and dependencies to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with SDLC or delivery methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or PMI-style frameworks.
• Experience working closely with security, infrastructure, or platform engineering teams.
• Strong organizational, documentation, and communication skills.
• Experience coordinating work across globally distributed teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to translate security objectives into structured, executable work plans.
• Background in blockchain, DeFi, or Web3 ecosystems.

Nice To Have

• Experience working with external partners, vendors, or auditors.
• Exposure to security governance, risk management, or compliance-adjacent work.

Key skills/competency

• Cybersecurity Governance
• Program Management
• DeFi Security
• Risk Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Policy Development
• Blockchain Technology
• Web3 Ecosystems
• Cross-functional Coordination
• Security Compliance