Security Lead (GRC & AppSec)

Location: Hyderabad, India
Employment Type: Full-Time; Salaried
Compensation: Base Salary, Bonus, Stock Options, Medical
About Innovapptive
Innovapptive is an enterprise SaaS company building an AI-powered Connected Worker Platform for industrial organizations. Our platform connects frontline workers, back-office systems, and assets in real-time to drive safety, reliability, and operational productivity.
Leading global enterprises including Shell, Hess, Westlake Chemical, Kimberly-Clark, Scott Miracle-Gro, and Newmont Mining, rely on Innovapptive to transform how work gets done across plants and field operations.
Our customers have achieved $50M+ EBITDA savings at a single enterprise, 10× improvement in frontline productivity, and 15–20% reductions in maintenance costs.
Innovapptive is recognized as a Leader in Frost & Sullivan's “Frost Radar 2025 - Augmented Connected Worker Platforms”, with acknowledgments from Gartner and LNS Research, and is backed by Vista Equity Partners and Tiger Global Management.




With headquarters in Houston and an engineering center in Hyderabad, we have 300+ employees across the U.S., India, and ANZ and are on a robust trajectory toward $100M ARR.
Why This Role Exists
You are the founding security hire. Build Security & Compliance from scratch: GRC, AppSec pipeline, vulnerability management, security culture. Hire and lead a 3-person team.
What You Own
- Security program from zero: GRC framework, risk register, policies, vendor assessments.
- SOC 2 Type II readiness.
- AppSec pipeline: SAST/SCA in CI/CD. 100% repo coverage.
- Vulnerability management: ≥95% Crit/High resolved within 7/30 days.
- Security review for high-risk changes.
- Incident response playbook.
- Security awareness and training.
- Team building: AppSec Engineer now, Infra/Cloud in Q3.

You Must Have
- 6+ years information security with 2+ years leading programs.
- GRC: SOC 2, ISO 27001. Audit coordination.
- AppSec: SAST/DAST/SCA, OWASP Top

📌 Security Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 Innovapptive
📍 Hyderabad