Director of Information Security and Compliance

Director of Information Security and Compliance KS-024

Job Description:

Director of Information Security & Compliance About Krateo Sky Krateo Sky is building the trusted Western champion in AI aerial robotics—a unified perception and actuation platform that will make the skies the world's most trusted and transformative engine of productivity. We are not a drone company. We…

Krateo Sky is building the trusted Western champion in AI aerial robotics—a unified perception and actuation platform that will make the skies the world's most trusted and transformative engine of productivity. We are not a drone company. We are the autonomy infrastructure powering robotic flight and aerial intervention across defense, industry, and public safety. We are executing a rapid roll-up strategy to consolidate best-in-class technologies, creating the first at-scale, AI-native alternative.

Speed and scale define our competitive advantage. We move fast by questioning assumptions, removing complexity, and rapidly demonstrating over analyzing. We scale by building certifiable platforms on reusable architectures. Our AI-native, digitally connected ecosystem amplifies this advantage, automating tedious work so engineers focus on novel problem-solving. We keep our back office small and our organization flat to maintain velocity and operate as one integrated team with real-time visibility into trade-offs, risks, and progress.

You're joining at the beginning when your decisions define how we scale to Western leadership. We're building a dream team of high performers to establish the processes, tools, and culture that enable rapid acquisition integration and platform scalability for missions that matter. No PowerPoint purgatory, no "that's how aerospace does it" sacred cows. First principles, data-driven decisions, hands-on execution.

You will own the strategic security posture, threat operations, and physical/digital security boundaries across Krateo Sky and our acquired portfolio companies. Your mission is to build an automated, audit-ready security engine that secures our dual-use platform to CMMC Level 2 and FedRAMP standards without sacrificing software development velocity. You will keep the organization secure and compliant under a unified physical and cloud framework, translating defense requirements into automated compliance pipelines.

Hands-on operational leader:
You will be hands-on from day one. We are looking for a security leader who has actually designed and operationalized security and compliance systems under fire—not just managed policy binders or overseen outside consultants. You build real, resilient defense postures, configure security automation natively, and run audits and remediation programs directly. You think in systems but can get deep into the details when needed.

You are AI-native in how you work—AI assistants are your default environment. You generate boilerplate, security policies, threat models, incident reports, and policy controls with LLMs, and you use AI for threat hunting, automated evidence mapping, and security audit gap analysis. You see AI as the reason a small, elite team can outperform a traditional organization three times its size.

Embody our values and behaviors—deliver precision and quality, challenge how things are done, break problems into fundamentals, automate relentlessly, hold yourself accountable, and deliver together no matter the obstacles. You must exhibit Above the Line behaviors: operating as a Coach, Creator, and Challenger rather than a Victim, Hero, or Villain. You apply automation-first thinking: your default instinct…