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Establish and lead the information security and operational resilience program for a CFTC-regulated Designated Contract Market. This includes designing security controls, managing cyber threats, and ensuring compliance with Core Principle 20 system safeguards.
Requires a senior security leader with over 7 years of experience, preferably in financial services or regulated exchange infrastructure. Must have deep familiarity with CFTC expectations and experience managing distributed engineering teams.
Location: Chicago, IL. Fully remote to start, transitioning to 3 days/week in office.
Smarkets is a prediction market exchange for sports and political trading that has handled over $50 billion in volume since 2010. We are upending the sports betting industry by growing a platform that offers the best value for traders, with not only the fairest prices but also the best technology, alongside a superior customer experience.
We believe the foundation to our success is attracting the best people to our organisation and creating a high-performance environment where they can thrive. We are searching for an atypical candidate with a wealth of regulated business experience to support the development of our CFTC business.
This is a senior security leadership role sitting within our CFTC-regulated business unit, responsible for the information security, cybersecurity, and operational resilience of our Designated Contract Market (DCM). You will design and enforce the policies and controls that protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our critical systems and data, in alignment with Core Principle 20 (System Safeguards) under 17 CFR § 38.1050 et seq. This is a founding build: our licensing applications are in-flight and you will stand up the security programme through to go-live, then operate and mature it as the business scales. You will lead efforts to identify and mitigate cyber and physical threats, coordinate incident response, and ensure the DCM can continue operating under stress, working closely with engineering, risk, and compliance, including our UK-based teams, to embed security across the software development life cycle and infrastructure. You will work directly with the CEO and senior management, with the support of the Smarkets UK team behind you.
Senior security leader with 7+ years of senior-level information security experience, ideally within financial services, exchange infrastructure, or critical regulated systems.
Demonstrated leadership in implementing cybersecurity, compliance, and resilience programmes in high-risk environments.
Deep familiarity with CFTC expectations around system safeguards, including Core Principle 20 and 17 CFR § 38.1050 et seq.
Direct experience with security and risk assessments, incident response planning and execution, cybersecurity compliance audits (internal or regulatory), and disaster recovery and business continuity programmes.
Experience managing or working with geographically distributed engineering and infrastructure teams.
Strong understanding of security frameworks and secure software development practices.
Excellent communication and reporting skills, including for executive and regulatory audiences.
Define and implement the DCM's information security vision, strategy, and programme, consistent with CFTC Core Principle 20 and industry-aligned best practice.
Lead risk identification, vulnerability management, and cyber threat mitigation across all DCM technology assets.
Ensure the design and enforcement of security controls across infrastructure, software development, vendor relationships, and end-user operations.
Own the incident response framework, including procedures for detection, containment, reporting, recovery, and root cause analysis.
Direct the business continuity and disaster recovery programmes, ensuring systems and teams can operate during disruption.
Prepare and maintain system safeguards documentation, audit logs, penetration tests, and other evidence for CFTC oversight and examinations.
Serve as the executive lead for cybersecurity audits, control testing, and CFTC technology compliance.
Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, product, and risk to ensure secure-by-design development and deployment, including across UK-based teams.
Regularly brief the CEO and senior management on security posture, threats, incidents, and risk levels.
Personal interest in sports, exchanges, or trading
Experience securing exchange, clearing, or trading infrastructure.
Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or equivalent.
Familiarity with event contracts, prediction markets, or similar novel futures products and their treatment under the CFTC framework.
Experience engaging directly with regulators or examiners on technology and system safeguards.
Push to win
Make others better
Give a shit
Be a pro
Bring the energy
Our values are at the heart of everything that we do. We believe these are the fundamentals to ensure we are delivering what's expected of us in the best way possible for ourselves and for those around us.
Base salary range: $130,000 to $200,000 USD per year. The actual offer within this range will depend on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
We have designed our benefits offering around Health, Wealth, Lifestyle and Development. From day one you will receive:
25 days' annual leave, plus public holidays.
401(k) plan: Smarkets matches 100% of employee contributions up to the first 6% of salary. Participation is voluntary, with automatic enrolment at a default contribution rate of 6% unless you select an alternative rate or choose to opt out.
Private medical insurance: a monthly reimbursement towards the private health insurance plan of your choice.
Performance bonus of up to 25% of base salary.
Equity via share options scheme.
Annual professional development budget of $1,000 for conferences, training, courses, books, and other learning opportunities.
Work From Anywhere: up to 20 days per year (pro-rated) to work remotely from locations around the world.
This role is offered subject to satisfactory background screening and, where applicable, CFTC fitness and eligibility requirements.
We use Ashby, our applicant tracking system, to manage applications, and AI-assisted tools may be used to support parts of our recruitment process. Applications are reviewed by our team, and hiring decisions are made by people rather than by automated tools.
The prediction market exchange. $Bn+ annual volume. 1M+ customers.
Smarkets operates one of the world's largest prediction market and sports betting exchanges — processing $billions in annual volume across 1M+ customers in regulated markets worldwide. Founded in 2008, we've spent 18 years building the infrastructure for how the world prices uncertain events. Our exchange consistently delivers the sharpest prices available, powered by proprietary market-making technology and deep liquidity provision. We're a technology company at our core. Our platform is built on Linux, Kafka, Postgres, and Kubernetes, with performance-critical systems in Rust and C++17, and product surfaces in Python and React. We build infrastructure that institutions trust while keeping it accessible to everyone. We've survived every cycle, every competitor, and every "revolution" in this industry. Our edge: market design beats marketing, and liquidity beats everything. Team of 100+ across London and Malta. Licensed and regulated across multiple jurisdictions. We're hiring engineers, traders, and operators who think markets are fascinating and want to build the infrastructure for how the world discovers truth. smarkets.com/careers
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