Security Strategy & Enablement Lead

AI Security Institute; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 105,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI security organization in London is looking for a strategic leader to oversee its security function. The role requires a blend of product thinking and delivery focus, ensuring effective communication of security initiatives across the organization. Candidates should have a strong background in strategy and cyber security, alongside exceptional communication skills. This position offers competitive compensation and the opportunity to influence AI governance at a global level.

Benefits

Generous paid parental leave

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Curious about how teams work, not just what they deliver.
• Practical familiarity with AI/ML concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead internal strategic planning and coordination.
• Own security communications and updates.
• Shape an integrated security AI risk narrative.

Skills

Communication skills

Strategic planning

Cyber security knowledge

Problem-solving

Education

Background in strategy, product, or technical programme leadership

Tools

Tableau

Microsoft Powerpoint

Job description

About the AI Security Institute

The AI Security Institute is the worlds largest and best-funded team dedicated to understanding advanced AI risks and translating that knowledge into action. We're in the heart of the UK government with direct lines to No. 10 and we work with frontier developers and governments globally.

We're here because governments are critical for advanced AI going well and UK AISI is uniquely positioned to mobilise them. With our resources, unique agility and international influence this is the best place to shape both AI development and government action.

About the Team

Security Engineering at the AI Security Institute (AISI) exists to help our researchers move fast safely. We are founding the Security Engineering team in a largely greenfield cloud environment we treat security as a measurable researcher centric product.

Secure by design platforms automated governance and intelligence led detection that protects our people, partners, models and data. We work shoulder to shoulder with research units and core technology teams and we optimise for enablement over gatekeeping proportionate controls low ego and high ownership.

What you might work on

• Help design and ship paved roads and secure defaults across our platform so researchers can build quickly and safely
• Build provenance and integrity into the software supply chain (signing attestation artefact verification reproducibility)
• Support strengthened identity segmentation secrets and key management to create a defensible foundation for evaluations at scale
• Develop automated evidence driven assurance mapped to relevant standards reducing audit toil and improving signal
• Create detections and response playbooks tailored to model evaluations and research workflows and run exercises to validate them
• Threat model new evaluation pipelines with research and core technology teams fixing classes of issues at the platform layer
• Assess third party services and hardware / software supply chains; introduce lightweight controls that raise the bar
• Contribute to open standards and open source and share lessons with the broader community where appropriate

If you want to build security that accelerates frontier scale AI safety research and see your work land in production quickly this is a good place to do it

Role Summary

Act as the connective tissue of the AISI security function. This role blends chief of staff energy with product thinking and delivery focus. You'll own the team's narrative planning communication and rhythm ensuring security is seen as valuable accessible and outcome-driven across AISI and beyond. You'll also connect security to AISIs frontier AI work making model lifecycle risks safeguards and evidence legible to leadership and partners and aligning security delivery with AI safety objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead internal strategic planning OKRs delivery coordination and progress tracking
• Own security comms: presentations dashboards monthly updates and assurance packs
• Develop reusable material for onboarding stakeholder engagement and external briefings
• Coordinate cross-cutting initiatives risks and dependencies across the function
• Represent the CISO in meetings and planning forums as needed
• Build and maintain relationships across AISI (engineering research policy) and with DSIT security stakeholders
• Translate technical work into stories and narratives aligned to AISIs mission
• Shape an integrated security AI risk narrative covering model lifecycle and how safeguards map to AISIs mission
• Define and track outcome-oriented metrics that include AI surfaces (e.g. eval / release-gate coverage model / weights custody controls GPU governance posture thirdparty model / API usage patterns key AI incident learnings)
• Curate enablement materials for AI / ML teams: secure / vetted patterns for model and data handling use of external model APIs and roles / responsibilities across shared responsibility boundaries
• Coordinate AI-governance touchpoints with DSIT and internal leads (e.g. readiness for NIST AI RMF / ISO 42001 where relevant) partnering with GRC to ensure consistent evidence and narratives
• Maintain a clear stakeholder map across research platform product and policy; run the operating rhythm that keeps security and delivery aligned

Profile requirements

• Background in strategy product cyber security or technical programme leadership
• Exceptional written and verbal communication; able to switch fluently between technical and executive audiences
• Operates independently prioritises well and holds delivery to account
• Curious about how teams work not just what they deliver
• Values structure clarity and momentum
• Practical familiarity with AI / ML concepts sufficient to translate between security research and policy
• Desirable: experience enabling research or ML organisations and aligning security narratives with AI safety goals

Key Competencies

• Planning and roadmap ownership
• Internal comms and storytelling
• Operating rhythms documentation and delivery support
• Cross-functional leadership across engineering research and policy
• Outcome-focused metrics and OKRs that reflect security posture

What We Offer

Impact you couldn't have anywhere else

• Incredibly talented mission-driven and supportive colleagues.
• Direct influence on how frontier AI is governed and deployed globally.
• Work with the Prime Ministers AI Advisor and leading AI companies.
• Opportunity to shape the first & best-resourced public-interest research team focused on AI security.

Resources & access

• Pre-release access to multiple frontier models and ample compute.
• Extensive operational support so you can focus on research and ship quickly.
• Work with experts across national security policy AI research and adjacent sciences.

Growth & autonomy

• If you're talented and driven you'll own important problems early.
• 5 days off learning and development annual stipends for learning and development and funding for conferences and external collaborations.
• Freedom to pursue research bets without product pressure.
• Opportunities to publish and collaborate externally.

Life & family

• Modern central London office (cafes food court gym) or option to work in similar government offices in Birmingham Cardiff Darlington Edinburgh Salford or Bristol.
• Hybrid working flexibility for occasional remote work abroad and stipends for work-from-home equipment.
• At least 25 days annual leave 8 public holidays extra team-wide breaks and 3 days off for volunteering.
• Generous paid parental leave (36 weeks of UK statutory leave shared between parents 3 extra paid weeks option for additional unpaid time).
• On top of your salary we contribute 28.97% of your base salary to your pension.
• Discounts and benefits for cycling to work donations and retail / gyms.

Salary

Annual salary is benchmarked to role scope and relevant experience. Most offers land between 65000 and 145000 (base plus technical allowance) with 28.97% employer pension and other benefits on top.

This role sits outside of the DDaT pay framework given the scope of this role requires in depth technical expertise in frontier AI safety robustness and advanced AI architectures.

The full range of salaries are as follows

• Level 3 : (Base 35720 Technical Allowance)
• Level 4 : (Base 42495 Technical Allowance)
• Level 5 : (Base 55805 Technical Allowance)
• Level 6 : (Base 68770 Technical Allowance)
• Level 7 : 145000 (Base 68770 Technical Allowance 76230)

Additional Information

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Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check and get baseline personnel security standard (BPSS) clearance before they can be appointed. Additionally there is a strong preference for eligibility for counter-terrorist check (CTC) clearance. Some roles may require higher levels of clearance and we will state this by exception in the job advertisement. See our vetting charter here.

Nationality requirements

We may be able to offer roles to applicant from any nationality or background. As such we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet the standard nationality requirements (opens in a new window).

Working for the Civil Service

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Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Key Skills

Marketing,Data Visualization,Tableau,Customer Segmentation,Microsoft Powerpoint,Investment Banking,Strategic Planning,Financial Modeling,Customer relationship management,Management Consulting,Google Suite,Analytics

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 105000 - 115000