CISO Brazil

About ARQ ARQ is one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the world. Our mission is to redefine how people interact with money across borders, building the infrastructure to move value seamlessly. We’re still early in our journey, which means every person who joins shapes the future of our product, culture, and growth. If you’re excited by big challenges, global impact, and the chance to grow fast with a world-class team, ARQ is the place to do it. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING - Lead infosec regulatory compliance for our Brazilian entities - Act as the designated security responsible with local regulators, prepare audit responses, and engage directly in Portugese - Own the local security control framework and map Brazilian regulatory requirements to existing global controls, identify gaps, and drive remediation with the relevant teams - Lead incident notification and regulator engagement when security events fall under local reporting obligations; coordinate playbooks with the global security team - Oversee local vendor due diligence and third-party risk for Brazilian operations, - Coordinate with global security functions (detection & response, cloud security, application security, IAM, endpoint, DLP, threat intel) to ensure controls meet Argentine regulatory expectations WHAT YOU'LL NEED - 7+ years in information security with a strong governance and compliance background - Experience interfacing with financial regulators and leading compliance audits - Full professional fluency in Portugese - you will represent the company with regulators BENEFITS - Competitive salary and benefits - Stock options, so you own part of what you build - Discretionary performance bonus - The latest tools and technology - A world-class team that will challenge and grow your skills - The opportunity to help build the best fintech app in Latin America - Office Policy: 3-4 days a week in-office