Head of Privacy & Security

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🕒 July 16

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Playlab

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

💰 $25k Grant - Playlab on 2024-03

Artificial Intelligence • Education • Non-profit

Playlab is a nonprofit that enables educators and impact organizations to build AI-powered tools and experiences. The company focuses on generative AI and educational technology, providing a public infrastructure for researchers to study the impact of AI on education and advancing responsible, open-source AI. Playlab aims to make building with AI as fun and accessible as creating with Scratch while being as robust as Huggingface.

📋 Description

• Lead our security and privacy efforts and protect the students, educators, and partners who use the platform. • Drive the security engineering, compliance, and privacy programs forward with end-to-end ownership of risk and customer assurance. • Promote effective and thoughtful decision making to reduce uncertainty and increase organizational velocity. • Stand up SIEM and detection engineering pipelines to alert on and investigate anomalies before they turn into incidents. • Standardize and enforce RBAC on critical systems, including non-human and AI agent identities. • Add LLM-assisted and highly contextual code analysis to security-relevant pull requests, addressing tenant isolation and prompt injection threats. • Design data de-identification and isolation approaches for privacy-by-design use cases. • Keep an up-to-date risk register and security roadmap, communicating clearly through regular updates. • Support engineering team with secure design reviews that provide actionable and tradeoff-informed recommendations. • Equip customer-facing teams with top-notch trust center content, including security knowledge bases and customer assurance collateral. • Lead SOC 2 compliance operations and audits to reduce overhead on engineering and support teams. • Lead the incident response function to ensure rapid recovery capabilities. • Partner with Trust and Safety on child safety and responsible AI deployments. • Work cross-functionally to build partnerships instead of roadblocks.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in security roles, with at least 3 years in leadership positions • Background implementing security controls in fast-moving engineering organizations - you know how to balance security with velocity • Demonstrated examples of projects tackling AppSec challenges and integrating with software development (DevSecOps) • Experience securing container-based cloud environments (Playlab is on AWS EKS) including IAM, virtual network security, and logging and auditing capabilities • Experience leading GDPR compliance and SOC 2 audits • Excellent writing and communication abilities, turning complicated problems into actionable consensus. • Bonus Points For... • Background in education data privacy (e.g. FERPA, COPPA) • Experience defending systems from AI threats (e.g. prompt injection) • Experience in nonprofit or mission-driven organizations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work • Competitive pay & benefits • Includes salary, healthcare, retirement, generous time off, and opportunities for professional growth.