Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) - NYC

📋 Description

• Define and execute security strategy across infra, data, and AI systems.
• Build guardrails, monitoring, and policy enforcement for autonomous agents.
• Develop security tooling that can become standalone products.
• Lead incident response, threat modeling, and adversarial testing.
• Be the public face of AI security in client conversations and industry events.

🎯 Requirements

• You’ve served as a CISO, VP of Security, or Head of Security at a high-growth tech company, ideally one building or deploying AI at scale.
• Hands-on security of AI/ML systems including LLMs and pipelines.
• Cloud-native security programs across AWS, GCP, and Azure; zero-trust, IAM, multi-tenant.
• Deep threat modeling and red teaming; AI-specific vectors like prompt injection.
• Designed and implemented scalable security monitoring, incident response, and compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO).
• Track record shipping security products or tooling used by customers.

Mindset & Traits

• You think like a founder. Security as a product and competitive advantage.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and energized by unsolved problems.
• You are product-minded and commercially aware; explain trade-offs to non-security stakeholders.
• You are technical enough to earn respect from engineers and pragmatic with clients.
• You are a teacher and builder of institutional knowledge.
• You care deeply about doing the right thing and hold yourself to high standards.