Director, Innovation and Enablement

Relativity ODA LLC; Virginia; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Relativity ODA LLC is seeking a Director of Security and Innovation Enablement with deep governance of AI, data security, and cloud security. You will lead senior security engineers, drive strategic initiatives, and partner with engineering, product, and procurement to secure emerging technologies.

The role emphasizes safe AI usage, automated workflows, and risk mitigation across data privacy, model bias, and regulatory gaps, with executive-level engagement and budget responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or GCP and security domains.
• 10+ years of technology leadership experience, including 5+ years in people leadership.

Responsibilities

• Leads a team of senior security technologists and aligns with strategic plans.
• Executes on cross-functional initiatives with Engineering, IT, Security, and Product.
• Directs security reviews, risk assessments, and threat modeling for high-risk initiatives.

Skills

Security leadership

AI risk management

Threat modeling

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Product/program management

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent experience

Master's degree

Job description

Posting Type

Remote/Hybrid

Job Overview

The Director of the Enablement and Innovation team is a tenured security practitioner with experience in engineering, product management, threat modeling, artificial intelligence, data science, and data security. The successful candidate will provide leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and mentorship to a team of highly experienced security engineers.

This person will outcomes for large innovation projects across Engineering, IT, and Security. Will direct security reviews and risk assessments, partnering with security teams on threat modeling, for strategic, high-risk innovation initiatives, will identify and advise on remediation of risks related to emerging technologies, including but not limited to LLMs.

A leader in this position will be expected to influence AI security guardrails at scale, including enforcement mechanisms, custom security tooling, and automated tests integrated into CI/CD and engineering workflows.

Job Description and Requirements

The Director of Security and Innovation Enablement is a senior leader who balances Relativity's digital assets with accelerating new technology adoption.

Leadership and Strategic Execution

• Leads a team of senior security technologists
• Participates with other senior leaders to execute on strategic plans and objectives
• Makes final decisions on administrative or operational matters and ensures effective achievement of objectives
• Has significant input on planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending/implementing changes to methods
• Ensures budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements
• Participates in corporate development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people

Innovation and Enablement

• Maintains a portfolio of significant large-scale innovation projects and creates reporting for these
• Directs the creation of safe, pre-governed pathways for teams to test and deploy new tools (such as AI platforms, cloud workflows, or third‑party software) without creating security vulnerabilities
• Innovation Accelerator: Replaces rigid "no" cultures in IT and security with a streamlined intake, sandbox, and evaluation process for emerging technology
• AI and Operational Enablement: Champions safe AI usage, automated workflows, and risk mitigation against data privacy issues, model bias, and regulatory gaps
• Runs the Security Innovation Enablement processes and reports outcomes to Security leadership
• Collaborates with enterprise teams to advance new technologies from evaluation through secure enterprise rollout
• Supports deep technical security evaluations with Procurement, Product, and Engineering

Cross-Functional and Executive Engagement

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partners closely with technology, product, or engineering teams to align growth goals with security guardrails
• Regularly interacts with executives and/or major customers
• Handles interactions that frequently involve special skills, such as negotiating with customers or management, or attempting to influence senior‑level leaders on matters of significance to the organization

Complexity and Accountability

• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in‑depth knowledge of the company
• Is accountable for decisions that carry serious impact: erroneous decisions will have a serious impact on the overall success of functional, division, or company operations

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent experience
• Working knowledge of common cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Broad experience across security domains such as application, cloud, AI, data security and engineering pipelines
• Experience supporting compliance and audit requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA) from a technical control perspective
• Balancing Risk and Agility: Creates safe, pre-governed pathways for teams to test and deploy new tools (such as AI platforms, cloud workflows, or third‑party software) without creating security vulnerabilities
• Security and Compliance Oversight: Oversees corporate cybersecurity baselines, zero‑trust architecture, identity access management, and compliance frameworks (such as ISO 27001, CMMC, or NIST guidelines)
• Ability to communicate technical findings clearly to both engineering peers and non‑technical stakeholders
• 10+ years of technology leadership experience, including 5+ years in people leadership
• Product or program management experience with roadmaps, OKRs, and Agile delivery
• Working knowledge of AI risk frameworks such as NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, and CSA MAESTRO

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree
• Experience leading people leaders
• Comfort in communicating with C-level executives
• Familiarity with industry standard security technologies / configuration
• Outstanding work ethic with a passion for Cyber Security
• Certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP
• Experience working in a SaaS environment