Executive Director, Cyber AI Strategy

AEP Service Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

AEP Service Corporation in the United States is seeking a Director/Managing Director, Cyber AI to lead the cybersecurity organization’s AI strategy and program onsite in Columbus, OH or Austin, TX. You will set direction for protecting enterprise AI and for responsibly applying AI to improve cybersecurity outcomes, aligning priorities, governance, and operating models with enterprise objectives.

You will build a coherent Cyber AI portfolio, develop leaders and multidisciplinary teams, partner

Qualifications

• Progressive leadership experience across cybersecurity, technology, engineering, operations, risk, product delivery, or related disciplines.
• Experience setting strategy and leading complex programs or portfolios in a large, regulated, or critical-infrastructure environment.
• Ability to lead through influence across organizational boundaries and established decision authorities.
• Understanding of AI, machine learning, generative AI, agents, cloud, data, software delivery, and cybersecurity sufficient to guide strategy and investment.
• Experience translating emerging technology risk and opportunity into clear executive direction, priorities, and accountable outcomes.
• Demonstrated judgment in balancing innovation, security, reliability, compliance, and business value.
• Executive communication skills and the ability to advise senior leaders, governance bodies, technical teams, and business stakeholders.
• Experience building leaders, developing multidisciplinary teams, and creating sustainable operating models.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate the Cyber AI vision, strategy, priorities, and multi-year direction.
• Provide executive leadership across AI Security Operations and AI-enabled cybersecurity products and engineering.
• Align the portfolio to cybersecurity strategy, business priorities, operational reliability, regulatory expectations, and responsible AI principles.
• Establish clear accountability, decision boundaries, escalation paths, and operating expectations across the Cyber AI program.
• Sponsor scalable security services that improve visibility, controls, monitoring, operational readiness, and resilience for enterprise AI environments.
• Sponsor responsible AI-enabled cybersecurity capabilities that improve security effectiveness, analyst experience, operational efficiency, and risk reduction.
• Guide investment, capacity, organizational design, and talent strategy based on demand, risk, service health, delivery performance, and measurable value.
• Ensure the program produces credible leadership reporting, operational evidence, risk transparency, and outcome measures.
• Build strong partnerships across cybersecurity, technology, business, governance, risk, privacy, legal, compliance, data, and operational stakeholders.
• Develop leaders and high-performing multidisciplinary teams with a culture of accountability, innovation, engineering discipline, and responsible AI use.
• Represent cybersecurity in enterprise AI forums and serve as a senior advisor on AI security opportunities, constraints, and emerging risk.

Job description

AEP Service Corporation in the United States is seeking a Director/Managing Director, Cyber AI to lead the cybersecurity organization’s AI strategy and program onsite in Columbus, OH or Austin, TX. You will set direction for protecting enterprise AI and for responsibly applying AI to improve cybersecurity outcomes, aligning priorities, governance, and operating models with enterprise objectives.

You will build a coherent Cyber AI portfolio, develop leaders and multidisciplinary teams, partner