Head of Security & Privacy Engineering

The role

You will own all aspects of security, privacy, and compliance across the company. You will lead the development of a secure environment for AI products and cloud infrastructure.

What you will do

• Own all aspects of Security, Privacy, and Compliance across the company.
• Develop and enforce security and privacy policies, procedures, and standards.
• Lead cybersecurity incident response and continuous risk assessment programs.
• Partner with the executive team to align security strategy with business goals.
• Oversee compliance with GLBA, FFIEC, SOC 2, and other applicable frameworks.
• Champion privacy-by-design principles across product and AI initiatives.
• Lead security and privacy initiatives for AI-powered products.
• Partner with Sales, Legal, Compliance, and Product teams to address security inquiries.
• Deliver executive-level security and risk reports to leadership and the board.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure teams to embed Dev SecOps.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of cybersecurity leadership experience, ideally within financial services, banking, fintech, or regulated environments.
• Experience securing AI-driven platforms, LLM workflows, or AI-powered products.
• Strong experience securing cloud-native infrastructure, particularly AWS.
• Ability to embed security-by-design practices across distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Deep knowledge of data protection, encryption, identity and access management (IAM), and threat modeling.
• Strong understanding of GLBA, FFIEC, SOC 2, and enterprise security frameworks.
• Proven ability to lead security programs and communicate risk to executive stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science or related field.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience in a startup or high-growth SaaS/AI company.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer.

Benefits

• 100% paid health, dental & vision care
• 401(k) & financial wellness perks
• Daily meals on us
• Commuter benefit
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Claude Enterprise + frontier AI tools for every employee
• Brand-new 21st-floor SF office at 44 Montgomery
• Discretionary PTO
• Paid parental leave
• Mental health, wellness & family benefits
• Founding-team-tier equity
• Top-of-market base

About the company

interface.ai is redefining how financial institutions serve their members through agentic AI and conversational AI. The company has $30M in Series A funding and is cash-flow positive.