Chief Information Officer (CIO) – Mirrorr AI
Location: Hybrid – Denver, CO (preferred) or Remote (US)
Company: Mirrorr AI
Role Type: Founding / Executive
About Mirrorr AI
Mirrorr AI is an applied research and product company building reflective AI systems for people recovering from psychiatric hospitalization, severe life disruption, and institutional trauma. Our platform combines large language models, narrative psychology, and privacy-preserving infrastructure to help users reconstruct identity, meaning, and continuity after extreme psychological stress. We operate at the intersection of AI ethics, mental health, and narrative technology.
Role Overview
We’re hiring a Chief Information Officer (CIO) to design and own Mirrorr AI’s information architecture end-to-end. This is a hands-on executive role responsible for data strategy, security, infrastructure, and compliance across clinical, research, and product environments. The CIO will partner closely with the CEO and CTO to ensure that every technical and operational decision we make is aligned with our core principles: dignity, safety, consent, and continuity.
You will build the systems that make Mirrorr AI trustworthy—for patients, clinicians, health systems, and regulators.
What You’ll Do
- Information Strategy & Architecture
- Define the long-term information architecture for Mirrorr AI across product, research, and enterprise deployments.
- Build a scalable, modular data strategy that supports clinical research, personalization, and auditability without compromising user privacy.
- Own data lifecycle policies: collection, labeling, storage, retention, and deletion.
- Security, Privacy & Compliance
- Lead security posture for the company (cloud, application, endpoint, and org-wide policies).
- Design and maintain frameworks for HIPAA, SOC 2, and other relevant healthcare / data-protection standards.
- Implement best-in-class practices for encryption, access control, logging, and incident response.
- Governance & Ethics
- Establish information-governance processes that operationalize our ethical commitments (beneficence, nonmaleficence, informed consent, and narrative dignity).
- Chair an internal Data & Ethics Review Council for new features, partnerships, and research uses of data.
- Collaborate with clinicians, ethicists, and researchers on safe evaluation and deployment protocols.
- Infrastructure & Reliability
- Oversee cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, observability, and cost optimization for LLM-heavy workloads.
- Build and manage relationships with cloud, security, and infrastructure vendors.
- Define SLOs/SLAs for uptime, latency, and reliability for both consumer and enterprise clients.
- Leadership & Collaboration
- Build, mentor, and lead a small team across security, infra, DevOps, and compliance.
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Clinical partners to translate regulatory and ethical constraints into product requirements—not blockers.
- Present information-risk and infrastructure strategy to investors, partners, and advisory boards.
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years experience in information security, data infrastructure, or IT leadership; at least 3+ years in a senior leadership role (CIO, CISO, VP, or equivalent).
- Hands-on experience designing secure cloud architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern data platforms.
- Demonstrated work in healthcare, life sciences, digital therapeutics, or regulated AI is a strong plus.
- Deep familiarity with HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR/CCPA and privacy-by-design principles.
- Comfort working in early-stage environments: building from zero, owning ambiguity, and writing the playbook.
- Strong communication skills: able to talk to engineers, clinicians, patients, and investors with equal clarity.
- Alignment with Mirrorr AI’s mission: restoring continuity, agency, and dignity for people who have endured severe psychological or institutional trauma.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with LLM/AI infrastructure, model-governance frameworks, or safety/monitoring systems.
- Background in clinical research environments, IRB workflows, or health-system integrations (EHR, FHIR, HL7).
- Prior founding-team or startup experience where you built security/compliance from scratch.
What We Offer
- Founding-level influence on company direction and culture.
- The opportunity to build systems that directly protect some of the most vulnerable people in modern healthcare.
- A mission-driven team obsessed with rigor, ethics, and long-term impact.
How to Apply
Please send your LinkedIn / CV + a short note on:
- A time you designed or overhauled a security / data-governance system, and
- How you think about balancing innovation and safety in mental-health AI.
