Cybersecurity Senior Manager | AI Governance and Security

Position Purpose: Maximise your chances of a successful application to this job by ensuring your CV and skills are a good match.We are seeking an experienced and visionary Senior Manager of AI Governance and Security to lead and execute a comprehensive strategy for governing and securing AI systems. This role is critical in ensuring our AI initiatives are built and operated with robust security controls, strong governance, and effective risk management. The ideal candidate will be a leader with deep expertise in both cybersecurity strategy and AI technology. This is a key leadership position within the Cybersecurity organization. The role operates with a high degree of influence and requires building strong, collaborative relationships across the enterprise. Success is dependent on establishing key partnerships within Cybersecurity, Legal, Privacy, Enterprise Risk, and AI/ML Development teams. Responsibilities: Establish AI Cybersecurity Governance and Risk Management: Develop and implement a comprehensive AI risk management framework to identify, assess, and mitigate risks across the AI lifecycle. Define and enforce AI policies and controls that aligning with best industry practices such as NIST AI RMF, OWASP AI Security and Privacy Guide Ensure compliance with the evolving global landscape of AI regulations. Serve as the primary liaison between Privacy, Legal, Enterprise Architecture, and AI/ML development teams to review AI use cases and evaluate security risks. Serve as a key advisor to leadership on AI security risks and opportunities. Strategic Plan for Secure AI Solution Design and Development: Lead the strategy for integration of cybersecurity controls into the AI solution development lifecycle, from design and data ingestion to deployment and monitoring. Lead the strategy to expand existing cyber threat detection and incident response capabilities to identify and respond to AI-specific threat vectors, such as model poisoning, data manipulation, and adversarial attacks. Proactively reduce the AI attack surface by embedding security by design principles into all AI projects. Collaborate with engineering, data science, and product teams to ensure all AI systems are built with security and privacy in mind. Qualifications: Proven experience in cybersecurity and a strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and their unique security challenges. Demonstrated ability to develop and implement security strategies, policies, and frameworks. Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with diverse teams. Experience in a large, complex organization is highly desirable. Key Responsibilities: 100% Deliver Execution, Plans & Aligns, Develop Others - Collaborate cross functionally to reduce vulnerabilities, risk and incident management; Drive cross-functional alignment; Asses, develop, implement and maintain strategies to assess and resolve security risk across the enterprise; Provide leadership, mentoring and coaching to direct reports and other leaders Direct Manager/Direct Reports: This position typically reports to Director or Sr. Director This position has 6-10 Direct Reports Travel Requirements: Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time. Physical Requirements: Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles. Working Conditions: Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable. Minimum Qualifications: Must be eighteen years of age or older. Must be legally permitted to work in the United States. Preferred Qualifications: 4+ years of previous leadership experience Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field. Master's degree or relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM) are a plus. Minimum Years of Work Experience: 8+ Competencies: Decision Quality Ensures Accountability Plans and Aligns Develops Talent Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.