Senior AI Security Product Owner

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Senior leadership exposure

Competitive compensation package

Abu Dhabi base

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy seeks a Senior Manager - AI Security Product Owner to define and lead security strategies for AI in a major banking environment. You’ll own the vision, roadmap, and lifecycle, coordinating cross-functional teams across cybersecurity, data, risk, and compliance to ensure compliant, trusted AI initiatives.

You will translate threats and regulatory expectations into practical controls, embedding security from model lifecycles to cloud and on‑premises deployments, with

Qualifications

• Extensive senior experience in cybersecurity and AI security.
• Experience defining and delivering security products in enterprise environments.
• Understanding secure MLOps, cloud security, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategic direction, investment priorities, delivery roadmap, and operating model for AI security products and capabilities.
• Convert business objectives, threat intelligence, risk findings, and regulatory obligations into a prioritised AI security backlog.
• Define security-by-design and privacy-by-design requirements for AI models, applications, data pipelines, platforms, and supporting services.
• Establish governance gates covering AI use-case approval, data suitability, model risk, testing, deployment, change control, and retirement.
• Lead security control integration across MLOps, LLMOps, DevSecOps, cloud, on-premises, and hybrid technology environments.
• Coordinate threat modelling, architecture reviews, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and control validation for AI solutions.
• Assess exposure to prompt injection, data poisoning, model extraction, insecure output handling, adversarial manipulation, and other relevant AI threats.
• Partner with risk and compliance teams to align practices with applicable UAE requirements, GDPR where relevant, internal policy, and recognised frameworks.
• Maintain AI security risk registers, control libraries, governance documentation, executive reporting, and audit evidence.
• Direct third-party assessments for AI vendors, foundation models, platforms, data services, and outsourced operational components.
• Define monitoring requirements for model behaviour, access, data flows, logging, anomalous activity, misuse, and control performance.
• Support preparedness for AI-related incidents, including playbooks, escalation routes, forensic requirements, root-cause analysis, and remediation tracking.
• Measure product outcomes through meaningful indicators such as control coverage, risk reduction, remediation velocity, adoption quality, and audit readiness.
• Facilitate decisions among senior stakeholders when security, delivery speed, commercial value, and risk appetite require careful trade-offs.

Skills

Cybersecurity

AI Security

Product Ownership

Risk Management

Executive Communication

Regulatory Compliance

Education

CISSP or equivalent

CISM / CRISC / CCSP (or equivalent)

Tools

NIST CSF

ISO 27001

SOC 2

MLOps / LLMOps tooling

Job description

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy seeks a Senior Manager - AI Security Product Owner to define and lead security strategies for AI in a major banking environment. You’ll own the vision, roadmap, and lifecycle, coordinating cross-functional teams across cybersecurity, data, risk, and compliance to ensure compliant, trusted AI initiatives.

You will translate threats and regulatory expectations into practical controls, embedding security from model lifecycles to cloud and on‑premises deployments, with