[Hiring] Vice President, Cyber AI @Eliza

Role Description

Our VP Cyber is a practice leader first. You'll build and run Eliza's Office of the CISO, the security practice we're launching to help enterprise security leaders get ahead of AI-driven threats. You'll own its revenue number, its client relationships, and the team that delivers the work. You'll report directly to the CTO and sit on Eliza's executive team.

Here's why now: Software has never been easier to build, and it's never shipped with less security. AI-assisted development is growing the amount of code every security team has to defend, and the same tools are making attackers faster. Security leaders feel that pressure today, and our partnership with OpenAI puts us in the room with them.

This is the first hire in the function which means you will build the practice team, playbook, and book of business. You'll also own Eliza's internal security program. It's lean today, but it gets interesting fast: we build composable, adaptive AI software, and securing it is a problem nobody has fully solved yet.

Two things to know before applying:

• We're an AI-native firm and we work that way internally: this practice is scoped to start lean because we expect you to use AI tools aggressively across everything you do, from threat research and code review to proposals, client education, and delivery playbooks.
• This is a fast-paced, high-ownership environment. You'll get outcomes, not instructions. Priorities shift quickly, ambiguity is constant, and the bar is high.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and own the Office of the CISO practice
  • Own the practice P&L and revenue number starting from zero, including pricing, packaging, and which offers we lead with.
  • Define our service lines across security assessments, red, blue, and purple team work, and security training, and decide where AI-assisted delivery gives clients a real edge.
  • Set the practice strategy with the CEO and hold it accountable to pipeline and revenue targets.
• Lead with education and win CISO relationships
  • Act as the face of the practice with CISOs and security leaders. Open doors, run executive briefings, and close engagements alongside our commercial team.
  • Build the thought leadership that makes Eliza the first call security leaders make: talks, briefings, workshops, and a clear point of view on AI and security.
  • Sell by teaching. The CISOs we meet don't need a pitch. They need someone who has lived the problem and can explain what's changed.
• Own the OpenAI security partnership
  • Act as Eliza's senior security counterpart to OpenAI's security and partner teams, and hold your own technically with their leadership.
  • Turn partner leads and co-sell opportunities into scoped, funded engagements.
  • Meet and maintain the capability standards the partnership requires, starting with running security work on our own platform first.
• Build the delivery organization
  • Hire and lead the practice team of security engineers and consultants, starting lean and scaling with demand.
  • Build repeatable delivery: workshop formats, assessment methods, evidence standards, and the quality bar every engagement is held to.
  • Stay hands-on. Early on, expect to be in the code, the findings, and the client room.
• Serve as Eliza's Security Leader
  • Own Eliza's internal security program, policies, and posture as we grow.
  • Define how we secure composable, adaptive AI software, a new threat surface without an established playbook.
  • Treat Eliza as customer zero. What we learn securing our own platform becomes what we sell.

Qualifications

• Current or recent experience operating as a VP or equivalent security executive.
• Experience building a services business, security consultancy, or managed or delivery services organization, including owning revenue.
• Credibility with CISOs as a peer.
• Deep technical roots.
• A point of view on how AI changes attack and defense, backed by daily use.
• A track record of thought leadership: speaking, writing, advising, or teaching.
• A habit of owning outcomes, not tasks.
• Willingness to travel frequently for client and partner meetings.

Requirements

• Experience in high-stakes or highly regulated environments like financial services, national security, defense, or critical infrastructure.
• A background in offensive security, red teaming, or security research.
• Experience at a security services or penetration testing firm, or building a security practice inside a consulting firm.
• Firsthand experience leading an organization through a major security incident, and the lessons that came with it.

Benefits

• Competitive executive compensation: base salary, meaningful equity, and upside tied to the growth of the practice you build.
• A seat on Eliza's executive team.
• Direct partnership with OpenAI's security organization on one of their top priority areas.
• Remote flexibility, with in-person time where it matters.
• The chance to define what AI-native security services look like for a whole market.
• Full ownership from day one. You're building the practice, not inheriting one.