Director, AI Security
About The Position
Kyndryl is seeking a Director, AI Security to lead the team responsible for securing internal AI platforms, applications, copilots, agents, model deployments, and frontier AI initiatives. This technical people leader will define the function’s strategy, build and develop the team, establish a durable operating model, and ensure security controls are implemented across the enterprise AI lifecycle. The role is part of Kyndryl’s Security & Resiliency practice, which helps clients anticipate, protect against, withstand, and recover from cyber threats and operational disruption. The position partners with cybersecurity, technology, governance, architecture, engineering, data, legal, privacy, procurement, and business teams to advance enterprise AI security.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of experience in cybersecurity, product security, application security, cloud security, platform security, software engineering, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing technical teams.
- Experience owning an enterprise security capability, technical program, product, or engineering roadmap.
- Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, APIs, IAM, secure software development, telemetry, and platform engineering.
- Ability to assess complex architectures and guide practical implementation decisions.
- Strong executive communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building or securing generative AI applications, agents, copilots, model platforms, or machine learning systems.
- Experience with AI gateways, RAG, vector databases, model routing, orchestration, MCP, or model-serving platforms.
- Experience with AI red teaming, adversarial testing, prompt injection defenses, agent testing, or automated control validation.
- Relevant security, cloud, engineering leadership, or AI certifications.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, coach, and develop the AI Security team, establishing clear roles, priorities, delivery expectations, and career paths.
- Own the team charter, roadmap, intake model, service catalog, operating rhythm, budget priorities, metrics, and executive reporting.
- Define and execute the technical strategy for enterprise AI security.
- Direct reusable controls for AI applications, runtimes, gateways, orchestration services, and model platforms.
- Oversee AI threat modeling, architecture reviews, adversarial testing, code and agent testing, telemetry, and remediation.
- Drive material AI risks to remediation, approved exception, or explicit risk acceptance.
- Partner across Cybersecurity, CIO, AI Platform, AI Governance, Architecture, Engineering, Data, Legal, Privacy, Procurement, and business teams.
- Brief executives on security posture, material risks, investment needs, tradeoffs, and recommended decisions.
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Disability benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Paid leave
- Paid time off
- Eligibility for Kyndryl’s discretionary annual bonus program, subject to performance and applicable plan terms
- Employee learning programs and access to certifications
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
