Director of Security Innovation & Enablement

Relativity; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 211,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

Relativity seeks a Director of Security and Innovation Enablement to lead a team of top security technologists guiding large-scale, high-risk innovation across Engineering, IT, and Security. You will drive threat modeling, risk assessments, and secure deployment of AI platforms and cloud workflows.

The role requires deep technical leadership, budget stewardship, and executive collaboration to accelerate technology adoption while protecting Relativity’s data and customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent experience.
• Working knowledge of 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 objectives are met.
• Has input on staffing, budgeting, and changes to methods.
• Ensures budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Directs creation of safe pathways to test/deploy new tools without vulnerabilities.
• Runs security enablement processes and reports outcomes to security leadership.
• Collaborates with enterprise teams to advance new technologies from evaluation to secure rollout.
• Supports deep technical security evaluations with Procurement, Product, and Engineering.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Security leadership

Threat modeling

AI security

Cross-functional collaboration

Budgeting & planning

CI/CD security

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's in CS or InfoSec

Master's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

ISO 27001

Job description

Relativity seeks a Director of Security and Innovation Enablement to lead a team of top security technologists guiding large-scale, high-risk innovation across Engineering, IT, and Security. You will drive threat modeling, risk assessments, and secure deployment of AI platforms and cloud workflows.

The role requires deep technical leadership, budget stewardship, and executive collaboration to accelerate technology adoption while protecting Relativity’s data and customers.