Chief Information Security Officer Dalio Family Office Dalio Family Office Overview: The Dalio Family Office (DFO) supports Barbara and Ray Dalio and their family in their ventures, investments, and philanthropic efforts under Dalio Philanthropies, which includes OceanX, Dalio Education, Endless Network, and the Beijing Dalio Foundation. The core of the DFO’s culture is built around meaningful work and meaningful relationships and the family’s commitment to giving back. The office is headquartered in Westport, CT with regional offices in New York City, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi.

Position Summary: The Chief Information Security Officer is a senior executive responsible for designing, implementing, and operating enterprise-wide information security, cybersecurity, AI governance and resilience programs commensurate with a highly complex, global family office and investment functions. This role has materially expanded beyond traditional family office CISO due to operational complexity of securing an internal trade execution pipeline, increasing reliance on cloud-native platforms, CI/CD-driven engineering workflows, and AI-enabled systems. This position reports to the Chief Risk and Security Officer and will serve as a strategic partner to senior leadership across Investment, Trading, Technology, Compliance, Legal, and Operations, ensuring that information & cyber security enable the business while protecting sensitive financial, personal, and intellectual assets.

The role requires deep financial-sector expertise, hands-on understanding of modern software delivery (SDLC/CI-CD), and strong leadership in AI governance, risk management, business continuity and security.

Responsibilities

would include a combination of the following: Enterprise & Financial Security Leadership Own the enterprise information security & cybersecurity strategy across Dalio Family Office entities, including offices and personnel operating in the US, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. Design and operate information security controls aligned with financial-sector expectations for confidentiality, integrity, availability, and market integrity. Provide oversight and assurance for systems supporting trading, portfolio management, research, treasury, and middle/back-office functions.

Advise senior leadership and principals on cybersecurity, operational risk, monitoring and systemic risk exposures relevant to investment activities. Trade Execution Pipeline Security Lead security architecture and control design for the DFO trade execution pipeline, including integration with OMS, prime brokerage, custodians, and middle/back-office platforms. Ensure appropriate preventative, detective, monitoring and responsive controls across the full trade lifecycle and proactively working with the Insider Risk & Investigations team.

Requirements

Establish controls for privileged access, segregation of duties, data lineage, logging, monitoring, and incident response in trading workflows. SDLC, CI/CD & Engineering Security Own application security and DevSecOps strategy across cloud and on-prem environments. Embed security & AI controls into SDLC and CI/CD pipelines, including code scanning, dependency management, secrets management, environment isolation, and release governance.

Partner with Engineering leaders to balance delivery velocity with robust security outcomes. Oversee vulnerability management, penetration testing, and remediation programs aligned to business risk. AI Governance, Risk & Security Establish and lead AI governance frameworks covering internal and third-party AI systems.

Assess and manage AI-related risks including data leakage, model misuse, IP exposure, bias, explainability, and regulatory compliance. Approve AI use cases involving sensitive data, financial information, or decision-making processes.