Director, Innovation and Enablement

Relativity•Virginia, VA

4d•$211,000 - $317,000

About The Position

The Director of Security and Innovation Enablement is a senior security leader who balances protection of Relativity’s digital assets with accelerating adoption of new technology. The role leads and mentors a team of experienced security engineers and technologists, provides cross-functional leadership, and drives outcomes for large innovation projects across Engineering, IT, and Security. The Director maintains a portfolio of large-scale innovation projects; directs security reviews, risk assessments, and threat modeling for strategic, high-risk initiatives; and advises on risks related to emerging technologies, including large language models. The role creates safe, pre-governed pathways for teams to evaluate and deploy new tools, champions safe AI use and operational enablement, and helps scale AI security guardrails through enforcement mechanisms, custom security tooling, and automated tests integrated into CI/CD and engineering workflows. The position partners with enterprise, Procurement, Product, Engineering, and Security teams to move technologies from evaluation through secure enterprise rollout. It participates in strategic planning and operational decisions, contributes to planning and budgeting, reports innovation outcomes to Security leadership, and regularly engages with executives and major customers.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent experience.
Working knowledge of common cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Broad experience across security domains, including application, cloud, AI, data security, and engineering pipelines.
Experience supporting compliance and audit requirements such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA from a technical control perspective.
Ability to create safe, pre-governed pathways for evaluating and deploying new tools without creating security vulnerabilities.
Experience overseeing cybersecurity baselines, zero-trust architecture, identity access management, and compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, CMMC, or NIST guidelines.
Ability to communicate technical findings clearly to engineering peers and non-technical stakeholders.
10+ years of technology leadership experience, including 5+ years in people leadership.
Product or program management experience with roadmaps, OKRs, and Agile delivery.
Working knowledge of AI risk frameworks such as NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, and CSA MAESTRO.
Required skills include Access Management, Loss Prevention Plans, Network Security, Risk Management, Security Architecture Design, Security Audit, Security Awareness, Security Engineering, Security Operations, and Vulnerability Management.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree.
Experience leading people leaders.
Comfort communicating with C-level executives.
Familiarity with industry-standard security technologies and configuration.
Outstanding work ethic and a passion for Cyber Security.
Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, or CCSP.
Experience working in a SaaS environment operating on a global scale.
Experience in the legal space and a strong understanding of e-discovery and litigation.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and manage a team of senior security technologists.
Participate with senior leaders in executing strategic plans and objectives.
Make administrative and operational decisions and ensure objectives are achieved.
Contribute to planning, staffing, budgeting, expense priorities, and changes to methods.
Ensure budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
Participate in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people.
Maintain a portfolio of significant, large-scale innovation projects and create reporting for them.
Direct the creation of safe, pre-governed pathways for teams to test and deploy emerging tools and technologies.
Establish streamlined intake, sandbox, and evaluation processes for emerging technology.
Champion safe AI usage, automated workflows, and mitigation of data privacy, model bias, and regulatory risks.
Run Security Innovation Enablement processes and report outcomes to Security leadership.
Collaborate with enterprise teams to advance new technologies from evaluation through secure enterprise rollout.
Support technical security evaluations with Procurement, Product, and Engineering.
Direct security reviews, risk assessments, and threat modeling for strategic, high-risk innovation initiatives.
Identify and advise on remediation of risks associated with emerging technologies, including LLMs.
Influence AI security guardrails at scale, including enforcement mechanisms, custom security tools, and automated tests in CI/CD and engineering workflows.
Partner with technology, product, and engineering teams to align growth goals with security guardrails.
Engage with executives and major customers and influence senior-level leaders on significant organizational matters.
Oversee corporate cybersecurity baselines, zero-trust architecture, identity access management, and compliance frameworks.