Head of Privacy & Security

The role

The Head of Security & Privacy will lead security engineering, compliance, and privacy programs. You will drive risk management and customer assurance to protect students, educators, and partners.

What you will do

• Expand SIEM and detection engineering pipelines
• Standardize and enforce RBAC on critical systems
• Add LLM-assisted and highly contextual code analysis to security-relevant pull requests
• Design data de-identification and isolation approaches
• Lead work on meeting privacy requirements for EU expansion
• Hire and grow the Privacy & Security team
• Keep an up-to-date risk register and security roadmap
• Support engineering team with secure design reviews
• Equip customer-facing teams with trust center content
• Lead SOC 2 compliance operations and audits

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in security roles
• At least 3 years in leadership positions
• Background implementing security controls in fast-moving engineering organizations
• Demonstrated examples of projects tackling AppSec challenges and integrating with software development (DevSecOps)
• Experience securing container-based cloud environments including IAM, virtual network security, and logging and auditing capabilities
• Experience leading GDPR compliance and SOC 2 audits
• Excellent writing and communication abilities

Nice to have

• Background in education data privacy (e.g. FERPA, COPPA)
• Experience defending systems from AI threats (e.g. prompt injection)
• Experience in nonprofit or mission-driven organizations

Benefits

• Salary
• Healthcare
• Retirement
• Generous time off
• Opportunities for professional growth

About the company

Playlab is a tech non-profit dedicated to helping educators and students become critical consumers and creators of AI. They equip communities with AI tools and professional development to build custom AI apps.