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We're looking for a Governance and Awareness Coordinator to enhance our organization's security posture, ensure effective communication, and promote a culture of security awareness and compliance. Lightspeed is a dynamic and innovative organization committed to maintaining the highest standards of security, governance, and risk management.
What you'll be doing:
- Coordinating security policy development including:
- Identifying and addressing policy gaps.
- Connect Security with other organisational units, ensuring bi-directional communication of security policies and practices.
- Support risk assessments and contribute to governance and risk mitigation strategies.
- Assess the effectiveness of security initiatives in promoting awareness and engagement, preparing reports for senior management on progress, successes, challenges, and recommendations for improvement.
- Craft clear and concise messages tailored to various audiences, ensuring security information is easily understandable, accessible, and engaging through newsletters, intranet, and our other communication channels.
- Serve as a liaison between the security team and other organisational units, Track progress, and ensuring effective communication of security policies and practices and managing stakeholders' expectations.
- Ensure alignment of security communication and awareness campaigns with the organisation's security objectives and standards.
- Monitor and refine a communication practice around security policies and support for sales, account management, and other key partners/departments.
- Organize team-wide town hall meetings, steering committees, and other communication channels, strengthening communication within the team and the broader organisation to encourage feedback and collaborative security practices.
What you need to bring:
- Experience providing educational sessions to a non-technical audience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Familiarity with security frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, PCI, ISO/IEC 27001)
- Ability to summarise task and initiative progress and identify challenges.
Even Better if you have:
- Strong bias towards accountability and continuous improvement.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or equivalent.
- Have an interest in security and growing your career.
- Familiarity with security technologies and best practices, including cybersecurity defences, intrusion detection systems, and encryption technologies.
We know that people are more than what’s on their CV. If you’re unsure that you have the right profile for the role... hit the ‘Apply’ button and give it a try!
What’s in it for you?
Come live the Lightspeed experience...
- Ability to do your job in a truly flexible environment;
- Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs everyday;
- Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact.
… and enjoy a range of benefits that’ll keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry:
- Lightspeed share scheme (we are all owners)
- Immediate access to our benefits plan
- RRSP match after 3 months
- Fitness & Wellness benefit: $500 CAD per calendar year
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Parental leave Top-Up programs
Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Where to from here?
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.
Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.
Who we are:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.
