Head of Security & Trust for Enterprise AI & Compliance

Cyberjobs; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay & equity

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Valkai is seeking a hands-on security leader to own and evolve the company’s security program across enterprise reviews, operations, compliance, and AI governance. You will partner with Engineering, Product, AI Research, and Legal to translate requirements into practical controls and commitments.

You'll drive security strategy, lead audits, and build scalable security documentation and evidence workflows while coordinating with Sales and Legal on commitments for enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• Experience building or scaling a security program spanning strategy, investigation, and execution.
• Led enterprise security reviews and customer audits to unblock deployments.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture, IAM, data flows, application security, and AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Own Valkai's security strategy, roadmap, and operating program with clear priorities and risk reporting.
• Lead enterprise security reviews, diligence calls, questionnaires, and customer audits; align with Sales and Legal on security commitments.
• Build and maintain Trust Center, security docs, architecture overviews, and reusable responses; automate evidence collection.
• Own roadmap and execution for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001; manage gaps, implementations, audits, remediation.
• Establish AI governance with Product, AI Research, Engineering and Legal, including risk assessments and model/vendor reviews.
• Partner with Engineering to strengthen access controls, cloud/app security, tenant isolation, vulnerability mgmt., and data protections.
• Translate customer concerns into product/security improvements and plan future hires/tools to scale the function.

Skills

Security leadership

Enterprise credibility

Technical depth

Compliance ownership

Risk judgment

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Valkai is seeking a hands-on security leader to own and evolve the company’s security program across enterprise reviews, operations, compliance, and AI governance. You will partner with Engineering, Product, AI Research, and Legal to translate requirements into practical controls and commitments.

You'll drive security strategy, lead audits, and build scalable security documentation and evidence workflows while coordinating with Sales and Legal on commitments for enterprise customers.