Director of Security

The role

You will own security end-to-end and lead a small team of security engineers and IT staff as a player-coach. You will be responsible for product and AI security, cloud and infrastructure security, compliance, and customer trust.

What you will do

• Own Prophecy's security strategy and roadmap across product, cloud infrastructure, and corporate environments.
• Build and scale the security program, including policies, controls, and risk assessments.
• Partner with Engineering to embed security into AI agents and the data platform.
• Own threat modeling for agentic systems.
• Lead AI governance for the agent platform.
• Lead application security practices including secure code review and vulnerability management.
• Secure integrations with Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, and other customer data platforms.
• Set guardrails for internal AI agents.
• Own the security posture of AWS and Kubernetes environments.
• Build and run incident response.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in security, with at least 3 years in product, application, or cloud security at a software company.
• Led a small security or IT team as a player-coach.
• Hands-on experience securing AWS and Kubernetes environments.
• Experience owning ISO/IEC 27001 and/or SOC 2 Type II programs, including audits and ongoing control management.
• Experience supporting enterprise sales through security reviews, questionnaires, and customer CISO conversations.
• Comfortable being both strategist and hands-on practitioner as the first dedicated security leader at a fast-growing startup.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including translating technical risk for executives and customers.

Nice to have

• Experience securing AI/LLM-powered products, including prompt injection, agent permissioning, and data handling with third-party model providers.
• Background at a data platform or data infrastructure company (Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, or similar).
• Experience selling into regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, or telecom.
• Experience working with distributed engineering teams across time zones.

Benefits

• Prophecy covers 99% of employee health insurance premiums and 75% for dependents
• Discretionary allowance for cell phone, wifi, gym memberships, wellness, and more
• Flexible PTO
• Professional development allowance
• Company sponsored Long Term Disability and Life Insurance, FSA/HSA, dental, vision

About the company

Prophecy is the leader in AI-native data preparation and analysis. They introduce the AI-native data lifecycle where AI agents and humans work together to analyze, transform, and prepare data.