Security Analyst- Maternity Leave Coverage

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Placer.ai is transforming how organizations understand the physical world. Our location analytics platform provides unprecedented visibility into locations, markets, and consumer behavior. Placer empowers thousands of customers—from Fortune 500 companies, to local governments and nonprofits— to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

What sets us apart? We've built the most advanced location intelligence platform in the market while maintaining an uncompromising commitment to privacy, proving that powerful analytics and responsible data practices can coexist.

Our growth reflects the market's demand: we reached $100M in annual recurring revenue within just 6 years of launching, achieved unicorn status with a $1B+ valuation in 2022, and continue to expand rapidly as one of North America's fastest-growing tech companies. We're creating a $100B+ market opportunity, and we're just getting started.

Named one of Forbes America's Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 company, we're building a culture where innovation thrives, collaboration is the norm, and every team member contributes to reshaping how the world understands location.

Summary

We are seeking a detail-oriented, self-driven Security Analyst, based in Israel, to join the Risk and Compliance team and operate Placer’s ISO-aligned Event Management Process end-to-end. This role is the front door for security events at Placer — the person who makes sure that every reported security event (from employees, vendors, and automated monitoring) is triaged, classified, escalated where required, and closed with documented evidence.

The Security Analyst is both an operator and a process owner. This is an excellent entry-point role for a Computer Science graduate or similar background person looking to build a foundation in security operations and compliance. You will run the daily flow of events, partner with Corporate IT, R&D/DevOps, and the CISO to drive down events, implement improvements and take corrective and preventive actions. You will report directly to the Chief Information Security Officer and work closely with the broader employee base engaging them directly.

This role covers five primary pillars: Security Event Intake and Triage; Classification, Escalation and Coordination; Process Operations and Continuous Improvement and Ai Automation.

This is a temporary position with an hourly pay.

Responsibilities

Event Intake & Triage

• Own the front door for all reported security events — internal security hotline , IT services alerts, employee reports and automated monitoring — and make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
• Triage security events within defined SLAs; gather context from logs, endpoints, identity systems, and SaaS admin telemetry to make a fast, defensible first call.
• Maintain the Security Event Register as the single source of truth for every reported event — timeline, evidence, classification, owner, status, root cause, and corrective actions.
• Review mail service admin holds that require review and investigation, user engagement and follow-up
  
  

• Classify security events against the defined severity matrix; distinguish security events from incidents and apply the agreed escalation criteria consistently.
• Notify the CISO when escalation criteria are met, evidence collection, and timeline capture during incidents.
  
  

• Own and operate Placer’s ISO-aligned Event Management Process end-to-end — from intake through triage, response coordination, closure, and lessons learned.
• Maintain the Security Event Management Process documentation (playbook).
• Coordinate with the CISO on security event detail enrichment, false positive reduction, detection rule tuning, and playbook updates so that the volume reaching the Security Event Management Process is high-signal.
• Continuously raise the bar on the process — automate intake, reduce mean time to triage and closure, and remove repeat security events and detection tuning.
• Design and implement automation/AI enhancements to reporting and security event handling to continuously drive down mean time to triage and closure.
  
  

• Assist the broader Risk and Compliance team with audits, control reviews, and reporting on standardization of systems security, applications.
  
  

• Respond to security event escalations in a timely manner.
• Prioritize responsibilities as they evolve on a day-to-day basis, and escalate appropriately.
  
  

• Computer science graduate or equivalent
• Hands-on experience in a fast-paced SaaS, cloud, or AI-first technology company is beneficial.
• Demonstrated ability to apply theoretical CS concepts and logical process-driven thinking to real-world security and operations challenges.
• Strong computer and SaaS services experience – business productivity tools
• Ai basics or more would be of benefit.
• Similar experience would be of significant value.
  
  

• Working knowledge of Mac and Windows endpoints, and related security events end-to-end.
• Familiarity with ticketing/case management tools (e.g., Jira) and comfort with structured data management, such as maintaining a Security Event Register.
  
  

• Highly committed, ownership-driven, and self-motivated — able to run a defined process end-to-end with minimal supervision.
• Excellent written English communication — concise event records, escalation summaries, and audit-ready evidence are core deliverables.
• Strong cross-functional partner — comfortable working across Corporate IT, R&D/DevOps, Legal, and HR and especially employees to drive an event to closure.
• Customer-oriented mindset toward internal reporters; treats every report seriously and closes the loop.
• Comfortable operating across U.S. and Israel time zones in a globally distributed company.
  
  

• Take a central and critical role at Placer.ai
• Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
• Competitive salary
  
  

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