Security & Threat Operations Manager

Drive Wealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices.

Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. Drive Wealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.

There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing!

Drive Wealth LLC is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Security & Threat Operations Manager to build and mature the function protecting our brokerage platform and corporate environment. Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, you will grow and lead the team, establish its operating model and roadmap, and deliver measurable improvements in threat detection, investigation, incident response, and exposure management.

In this hands‑on leadership role, you will own detection content and the exposure management lifecycle, security monitoring and incident response, operation and tuning of security controls, and turn threat intelligence into defensive improvements. You will act as Incident Commander during significant security incidents and coordinate response across technical and business teams. Partnering with Security Engineering, Dev Ops & Platform, and Product & Engineering, you will ensure defenses evolve along with our AWS platform, Kubernetes services, low‑latency trading infrastructure, and corporate technology within an innovative and entrepreneurial culture.

• Program Development:
  Mature Security & Threat Operations through a measurable roadmap, defined operating model, appropriate monitoring coverage, escalation procedures, and service provider oversight.
• Team Development:
  Grow and lead the team through hiring, coaching, training, career development, and performance management.

• Detection Engineering:
  Own the detection program incorporating threat intelligence, content development, proactive hunting, and validation through attack simulations and purple-team exercises. Treat detection content development as an engineering discipline.
• Monitoring & Investigation:
  Own security monitoring and investigation across product and corporate environments, including phishing, malware, credential compromise, API abuse, DDoS, and insider threats.
• Digital Risk Monitoring:
  Own digital risk monitoring covering external attack surfaces, leaked credentials, exposed data, impersonation, phishing domains, and takedown coordination.

• Automated Response:
  Partner with Security Engineering to build pre‑defined automated security response actions. Coordinate with business leaders on required response actions which cannot be automated or which require compensating actions to prevent…