[Hiring] Director, AI Security @Kyndryl

Role Description

Kyndryl is seeking a Director, AI Security to lead the team responsible for securing Kyndryl internal AI platforms, applications, copilots, agents, model deployments, and frontier AI initiatives. This technical people leader will define the function strategy, build and develop the team, establish a durable operating model, and ensure security controls are implemented across the enterprise AI lifecycle.

What You Will Do

• Build, lead, coach, and develop the AI Security team with clear roles, priorities, delivery expectations, and career paths.
• Own the team charter, roadmap, intake model, service catalog, operating rhythm, budget priorities, metrics, and executive reporting.
• Define and execute the technical strategy for enterprise AI security.
• Direct reusable controls for AI applications, runtimes, gateways, orchestration services, and model platforms.
• Oversee AI threat modeling, architecture review, adversarial testing, code and agent testing, telemetry, and remediation.
• Drive material AI risks to remediation, approved exception, or explicit risk acceptance.
• Partner across Cybersecurity, CIO, AI Platform, AI Governance, Architecture, Engineering, Data, Legal, Privacy, Procurement, and business teams.
• Brief executives on posture, material risks, investment needs, tradeoffs, and recommended decisions.

Qualifications

• 10 or more years of experience in cybersecurity, product security, application security, cloud security, platform security, software engineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing technical teams.
• Experience owning an enterprise security capability, technical program, product, or engineering roadmap.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, APIs, IAM, secure software development, telemetry, and platform engineering.
• Ability to assess complex architectures and guide practical implementation decisions.
• Strong executive communication skills.

Requirements

• Experience building or securing generative AI applications, agents, copilots, model platforms, or machine learning systems.
• Experience with AI gateways, RAG, vector databases, model routing, orchestration, MCP, or model-serving platforms.
• Experience with AI red teaming, adversarial testing, prompt injection defenses, agent testing, or automated control validation.
• Relevant security, cloud, engineering leadership, or AI certifications.

Benefits

• Base compensation range for the position in the U.S. is $179,760 to $341,520.
• Different applicable compensation ranges for specific work locations:
• California (San Francisco Bay Area): $215,640 to $409,800
• California (All Other): $197,640 to $375,600
• Colorado: $179,760 to $341,520
• Massachusetts/ Virginia: $179,760 to $375,600
• New York City: $215,640 to $409,800
• Washington: $197,640 to $375,600
• Washington DC: $197,640 to $375,600
• Eligible for Kyndryl’s discretionary annual bonus program, based on performance.
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical and dental coverage, disability, retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off.