Director, AI Cybersecurity Specialist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $280k / year

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Vista Equity Partners

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2000

💼 Consulting

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

Consulting • Finance • Enterprise

Vista Equity Partners is a leading investment firm that focuses on software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. The firm employs a long-term investment strategy, aiming to create value through operational improvements and strategic growth. Vista is recognized for its expertise in helping portfolio companies enhance their operations and drive innovation in their respective markets.

📋 Description

• Lead AI SDLC security work, defining and implementing controls for AI-assisted and agentic software development • Advise on AI cybersecurity initiatives by reviewing AI rollouts, architectures, and vendor proposals • Design and implement agentic SOC and incident response capabilities, including automated investigation, enrichment, response playbooks, and escalation paths • Modernize vulnerability management with AI through automated triage, prioritization, exploitability analysis, and remediation support • Build and maintain a shared library of skills, agents, prompts, and runbooks with documentation, versioning, and training • Help portfolio companies establish secure AI governance functions, including policies, ownership, approval and review processes, and enforceable controls • Build risk and threat models for AI initiatives and turn them into prioritized controls and go/no-go guidance • Identify and deliver frontier model use cases such as code and configuration review, threat hunting, detection engineering, alert triage, security questionnaire and evidence analysis, and automated remediation • Work hands-on with portfolio company security and engineering teams from assessment and proof of concept through implementation, scale, handoff, and production validation • Quantify and report engagement outcomes, including efficiency gains, cost savings, and cyber-posture improvements • Evaluate AI security platforms, models, and vendors while maintaining vendor independence • Support AI-related cyber diligence on M&A transactions as needed • Track the evolving AI threat landscape and translate it into practical portfolio guidance

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of general cybersecurity experience • AI transformation stories demonstrating end-to-end delivery, lessons learned, and measurable savings • Track record of building AI-native capabilities that drove operational efficiency and measurable bottom-line impact • 2+ years of hands-on, production use of frontier AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex • Demonstrated experience applying frontier and advanced models to security problems including vulnerability analysis, detection engineering, investigation, or remediation • Experience building agentic systems for security use cases, including orchestration, tool use, memory, evaluation, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design • Experience packaging work as reusable skills, agents, plugins, or runbooks adopted by other teams • Working knowledge of AI-specific security risks and frameworks, including prompt injection, agent identity and permissions, model supply chain, and secure agentic SDLC practices • Strong coding ability in Python or a comparable language • Familiarity with cloud environments, CI/CD, and modern security tooling • Ability to reframe problems, prioritize across many companies, and tie AI opportunities to business value, risk reduction, and dollars saved • Ability to communicate credibly with executives and staff and build trust with CISOs, CTOs, and practitioners • Experience in private equity, portfolio operations, consulting, or multi-company environments is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual cash bonus • Comprehensive benefits package

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