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YOUR MISSION You'll take full ownership of information security, compliance, and IT governance at Cosuno. You'll build and run our ISMS, lead us through ISO 27001 certification, and become the face of Cosuno's security posture toward enterprise customers and auditors. This is a senior individual contributor role with genuine end-to-end ownership. You won't be managing a team. You'll be the expert doing the work, backed by an Engineering team that implements technical changes you define, and with direct sponsorship from the CTO. WHAT YOU'LL OWN ISMS & ISO 27001 - Lead our ISO 27001 certification from gap analysis through audit, and run the ISMS afterwards: risk management, Statement of Applicability, internal audits, management reviews, and the annual control cycle - Write and maintain our security policies, making sure they describe how we actually work rather than how a template says we should Customer trust & audits - Own responses to enterprise security questionnaires and RFIs, helping Sales close deals faster - Represent Cosuno in supplier audits by enterprise customers: you'll face customer CISOs and auditors independently, in German or English as needed Data protection (GDPR) - Own the operational side of GDPR: drafting and negotiating DPAs (AVVs), managing our subprocessor list and notifications, running vendor security reviews, and supporting DSARs - Work with our external counsel and DPO where legal depth is required, while handling the day-to-day yourself IT governance & access management - Own our identity and access management via JumpCloud (MDM, SSO, device policies), including joiner/mover/leaver processes and periodic access reviews - Define our IT security baseline: device hardening, SaaS tooling governance, security awareness training HOW WE WORK - High autonomy, high impact: You own these domains end to end. These responsibilities currently sit with our leadership team; the mandate is to take them over completely, not to assist. - Compliance as a product: We treat security and compliance as a genuine part of how we build trust with enterprise customers, not as a checkbox exercise. - You define, Engineering implements: When a policy requires technical changes (logging, backup configuration, access controls), you specify what's needed and our Engineering team builds it. You need to understand our stack well enough to have that conversation credibly, but you don't need to write the code yourself. - Pragmatic, not bureaucratic: We're 100 people, not 10,000. We want lean, largely automated processes and modern compliance tooling, not committees. - AI-first by default: We expect you to work heavily with AI tools such as Claude Code to draft policies, answer security questionnaires, analyze audit requirements, and build lightweight automations. The goal is a compliance function that runs on smart processes and AI leverage, not headcount. If your instinct when facing a 300-question security questionnaire is to build a system rather than start typing, you'll fit right in. YOUR PROFILE You'll be a great fit if you have: - Full professional fluency in German and English. A significant part of our compliance and customer-facing security work is conducted in German, and this is a firm requirement. - Deep, hands-on ISO 27001 experience. You've built or run an ISMS before, ideally leading a company through certification. You know the Annex A controls and how companies actually implement them, and you can talk to an auditor without a script. - Operational GDPR expertise. You can draft a DPA, you know your Art. 28 from your Art. 32, and you've handled subprocessor management, vendor reviews, and DSARs in practice. - Genuine technical literacy. You understand how a modern SaaS product is built and run (cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, SaaS tooling). You can read an architecture diagram, ask engineers the right questions, and write a System Development Policy that matches reality