Director, AI Security Enablement

ABM Industries; Cumming (GA); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

ABM Industries seeks a Director, AI Security Enablement to build ABM's enterprise AI security strategy, embedding security into AI, ML, and agentic AI across the business. You will lead a small team and work across engineering, data science, legal, risk, privacy, and operations.

The role combines hands-on cybersecurity with AI security expertise, guiding governance, guardrails, and technical controls while coordinating with vendors and internal stakeholders. Hybrid model with travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead ABM's enterprise AI security strategy.
• Lead a team of AI/ML security specialists and coordinate with engineers, data scientists, and vendors.
• Establish guardrails, governance, and technical controls for AI adoption across the organization.

Job description

ABM (NYSE: ABM) is a leading provider of facility solutions with revenues of approximately $8.7 billion and over 130,000 employees in 300+ offices deployed throughout the United States and various international locations. ABM’s comprehensive capabilities include electrical & lighting, energy solutions, facilities engineering, HVAC & mechanical, janitorial, landscape & turf, mission critical solutions and parking, provided through stand‑alone or integrated solutions.

Reporting directly to the SVP &CISO,the Director, AI Security Enablementwill build and lead ABM's enterprise AI security strategy to include imbedding securityinto artificial intelligence, machine learning, and agentic AI across the business, spanning ABM’s AI security tooling, internal AI/ML development, and third-party AI products and vendors. This leader designs and champions the guardrails, governance, and technical controls that allow ABM to adopt AI and agentic AI capabilities quickly and confidently, while protecting the business, its customers, and its employees from the emerging risks these technologies introduce.

The role carries direct people‑leadership responsibility, building and developing a team of approximately three AI/ML security specialists, and also requires strong matrix‑management skills to coordinate and drive security outcomes through engineers, developers, data scientists, and vendor teams who do not report directly to this role. Highly organized program and stakeholder management is essential: this leader will run multiple concurrent security‑enablement initiatives across internal development teams and third-party AI vendors, track them to completion, and communicate progress clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders and executive leadership.

The Director, AI Security Enablement must have hands‑on depth in both traditional cybersecurity and modern AI security — including large language models (LLMs), generative AI, and agentic AI architectures where autonomous or semi‑autonomous agents take actions, call tools, and access systems and data on behalf of users or other systems.

This role will establish cross‑functional partnershipsacross Security, Engineering, Data Science& AI/ML teams, Legal, Risk, Privacy, and Operations to enable innovation while protecting the organization from emerging AI risks.

Benefits

• ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM Employee Benefits | Staff & Management.

Pay: $176,505 - $260,000

The pay listed is the salary range for this position. Any specific offer will vary based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data. You will also be eligible to participate in a company incentive or bonus program.

Hybrid Model: This leadership position is hybrid Monday-Thursday. The role may require occasional travel based on business needs.