Scale AI sits at the intersection of frontier AI, enterprise software, and national security. We safeguard high-value assets: proprietary AI data and infrastructure, a global contributor ecosystem, and sensitive enterprise and government customer data. As our International Head of Security, you will own and unify Scale’s security strategy across our non-US affairs: Global Public Sector and non-US Enterprise deals. You will drive the execution, customer engagements and compliance with frameworks such as GDPR, ISO27001, UK Cyber Essentials Plus, the EU AI Act, NIS2 and country-specific sovereignty requirements while staying tightly aligned to our global secure-by-default architecture set by the Head of Security. As we expand into FDE-led Agentic Applications while continuing to serve our data and model customers, our security surface area spans internal systems, external products, distributed contributors, and high-assurance government environments. You are a builder who believes security is a product feature, not a hurdle — and who can raise both our defensive maturity and our ambition in frontier AI security. What You'll Do Execute the Global Security Strategy Across International Markets Drive execution of Scale's multi-year secure-by-default roadmap across non-US markets, surfacing regional needs into global architecture decisions. Translate regional regulatory requirements (GDPR, ISO 27001/27017/27018, SOC 2, UK Cyber Essentials Plus, EU AI Act, NIS2, and country-specific data residency / sovereign-cloud rules) into concrete engineering controls. Track regional security metrics and accountability, and represent the international perspective in global prioritisation, audits, and roadmap reviews. Lead Regional Security Engineering & Threat Detection Own the regional execution of identity, fine-grained RBAC, secrets management, CI/CD hardening, encryption, logging, and infrastructure protection with a particular focus on cross-border data flows and in-region tel
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Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team To advance Stripe’s important mission, we are building a world class Internal Audit (IA) team. Our purpose is to strengthen the organization’s ability to create, protect, and sustain value by providing the board and management with independent, risk-based, and objective assurance, advice, insight, and foresight. We are consumed with the goal of moving as fast as
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Minimum requirements 8+ years of experience in internal auditing, risk management, or compliance, preferably within the banking or financial services sector; Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field; Professional certification such as CIA, CPA, CAMS, CRCM or similar is required (or active pursuit); High degree of integrity, independence, and professional skepticism
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Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models and manage money movement.
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