Cyber leadership profile

Hippo Insurance

Hippo is an insurtech company that provides homeowners insurance products integrated with smart home technology and proactive maintenance services. The firm utilizes data analytics and IoT devices to automate underwriting and mitigate risks for residential property owners. For a security leader, the environment involves managing high volumes of consumer PII and integrating security protocols across a distributed network of smart home hardware.

Industry: Financial Services
Headcount: 501-1,000 employees
Headquarters: Palo Alto, California
Ownership: Public company · NYSE:HIPO
Revenue: $250M – $1B
Funding: Publicly traded · $1.3B raised
Founded: 2015
Investors: Ribbit Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Felicis Ventures, Bond, Comcast Ventures

Company website

Cyber hiring activity

Open leadership roles

1 at Director level or above

Opened, last 12 months

1 Director+

Prior 12 months

Hiring velocity

Low

Median Opportunity Score 79

1 leadership role observed in the last 12 months. CLI has no coverage of the prior year for this employer. Counts reflect roles Hippo Insurance posted that CLI has observed and published; they are not a complete record of the employer's hiring.

Security leadership

Roy Shaham

Head of Information Security / CISOHiring influence: HighInferredHigh confidence

As the top security executive, he manages the overall security posture and hiring for the security function.

Public profile Source

Ran Zehavi

Chief Technology OfficerHiring influence: ModerateStated publiclyHigh confidence

Oversees the technical infrastructure and engineering, which closely integrates with security operations.

Public profile Source

People are recorded only from public sources. Where a role in the hierarchy is inferred rather than stated, CLI labels it so you can weigh it yourself.

Approach

Open any live role below for its full approach path: the likely hiring owner, the decision circle around them, and the strongest route in.

Security organization

Estimated team size15–40 peopleModerate confidence

The security organization appears to report through the Chief Technology Officer. Functions are divided between domestic security operations and Israeli-based security engineering.

Major functions

Application SecurityCloud Security (AWS)Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)Security Operations Center (SOC)Third-party Risk Management

Maturity indicators

SOC 2 Type II Compliance
Bug Bounty Program (HackerOne)
Dedicated Security Engineering Team

Hippo maintains a cloud-native security posture with significant investment in automated compliance and DevSecOps, typical for a high-growth InsurTech firm.

Organization figures are CLI estimates, not disclosures. High confidence

Security events

Jan 2023
Hippo Discloses Third-Party Vendor Data Incident
Security incidentHigh confidence
Hippo Insurance disclosed a data breach involving unauthorized access to its system by an employee of a third-party vendor, affecting a limited number of customers.
Source

Technologies observed

AWSCloud1 posting

KubernetesInfrastructure1 posting

SOC 2Framework1 posting

Extracted verbatim from this employer's security postings. Absence from this list does not mean the tool is not in use.

Open cyber leadership roles

Chief Information Security Officer

Hippo Insurance · Financial Services

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

$237,500 – $390,000 base, disclosed

Employer title: Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Enterprise CISO

CLI Career Level

Opportunity

Above average · Last verified 2 days ago

Cyber Leadership Index compiles these dossiers from public sources and the employer's own postings. Inferred figures are labelled with a confidence level; anything CLI cannot establish is shown as unknown rather than estimated. Last refreshed September 17, 2026.