The Life Time Technology team is at the forefront of the evolution of Life Time into a digital-first company, transforming existing experiences and creating brand new ones both online and in our clubs. If you enjoy a fast-paced environment with the latest technologies and have a passion for health and fitness – we should meet. Work is a team effort, and we are a highly motivated, highly collaborative team; we always win or lose together. We invest in our team members and ensure they have the tools and opportunities to learn, grow and thrive. We offer an incredible benefits package, generous club discounts, and a fully subsidized Signature Life Time Membership. Want to Love Your Life? Join our team.
Position Summary
Life Time is seeking a Chief Information Security Officer to lead our information security program at a pivotal stage of growth. As a large, publicly traded company with a national footprint and tens of thousands of team members, we need a leader who is equally credible with the Board and executive team and genuinely engaged with a high-caliber, high-leverage security organization.
Our security team is structured into three pillars: a governance function, security operations, and security architecture. The leader we need is someone who sets strategy and owns the Board relationship, while staying close enough to the work to direct it, ask sharp questions, and lead through real incidents.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Board & Executive Leadership
- Serve as the primary voice on information security to the Board, Audit Committee, and executive team, translating technical risk into business terms.
- Partner directly with General Counsel, the Risk Director, Compliance Director, and Chief Administrative Officer on risk calibration, budget, and enterprise strategy.
Program Strategy & Risk Management
- Set program strategy and priorities, making explicit, risk-based tradeoffs.
- Own the Enterprise Technology risk register, aligning governance, audit, and operations around shared priorities.
- Ensure compliance obligations (e.g., PCI, state privacy law, member/payment data protection, and growing health information exposure) are met through a right-sized, risk-calibrated approach.
Team Leadership & Force Multiplication
- Lead and grow a high-caliber team, empowering the Security Operations Leader and Principal Security Engineer on technical execution while setting risk tolerance and priorities.
- Extend the team's reach through automation/AI, tooling, and outsourced partners (MSSP/MDR).
- Act as a genuine technical thought partner — engaged enough to make informed calls without needing to personally execute the work.
Operational & Incident Engagement
- Personally lead as executive decision-maker during major incidents, coordinating with Legal, Communications, Risk, Internal Audit, and other executive leadership while the technical team runs response.
- Stay close enough to daily operations to represent the program accurately — to the Board and to the team — at both strategic and tactical levels.
Position Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or similar field of study.
- Minimum of 15 years executive/consulting leadership in information security policy, standards, architecture, operations, technology and programs is required
- Proven experience as a CISO (or a functional CISO) at a comparable-scale organization with a similar operating model.
- You have operated in a leadership role with credibility in the boardroom as well as with a team doing the technical work.
- You have lead cross-functionally through trust and influence, with the capacity to bridge disparate groups
- Demonstrable capacity to work successfully in a fast paced growth-oriented environment.
- You are energized by building efficient, right-sized programs that address our material risks.
- A track record of prioritization — able to speak specifically to material risks.
- Strong Board and executive presence, with experience partnering with peer executives (General Counsel, Risk Director, Compliance Director, CAO), not just reporting to them.
- Experience leading or partnering with strong technical individual contributors or managers (principal/staff-level engineers), with clear evidence of delegating technical authority appropriately.
- Working technical fluency across security operations, cloud/application security, identity, and risk/compliance — sufficient to direct and evaluate work, even without personally executing it.
- Familiarity with the regulatory and risk landscape relevant to Life Time (member/customer data privacy, payment data, workforce data at scale, and health-related data).
- Excellent communication, able to pivot between Board-level narrative and technical depth as the audience requires.
- Strong experience leveraging AI tooling (e.g. Claude).
Certifications
- Required: CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
- Strongly preferred: CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) — reinforces the governance/risk/Board orientation this role demands.
- Preferred: CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control) or CCISO (Certified Chief Information Security Officer), given the emphasis on enterprise risk ownership and executive leadership.
Pay
This is a salaried position starting at $199,000.00(or applicable minimum salary, if higher) and pays up to $288,000.00, based on experience and qualifications.
Benefits
All team members receive the following benefits while working for Life Time:
A fully subsidized membership
Discounts on Life Time products and services
401(k) retirement savings plan with company discretionary match (21 years of age and older)
Training and professional development
Paid sick leave where required by law
Full-time Team Members are eligible for additional benefits, including:
Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
Short term and long term disability insurance
Life insurance
Pre-tax flexible spending and dependent care plans
Parental leave and adoption assistance
Paid time off, including 5 to 20 vacation days per calendar year (based on tenure) and paid sick leave
Deferred compensation plan, if the team member meets the required income threshold
Life Time is a place for everyone. As an organization, we are committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace that respects and celebrates the unique contributions of each individual while ensuring we remain an equal opportunity employer that recruits, hires, trains and promotes based on merit and qualifications.
