Cyber Security Entrepreneur in Residence
Human Agency5 months ago
Vancouver, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the company’s security strategy across infrastructure, data, and AI systems.
- Establish governance models and security practices for deploying AI agents safely, including SOC 2, ISO, and potentially FedRAMP readiness.
- Build guardrails, monitoring, policy enforcement, and audit capabilities into AI agent systems in production.
- Identify, prototype, and potentially commercialize security products and internal tooling.
- Lead incident response, threat modeling, red team exercises, and adversarial testing for AI-specific attack vectors.
- Represent Human Agency in client conversations, partner discussions, industry forums, publications, and speaking engagements.
- Deploy and operate security infrastructure hands-on, including zero-trust architectures, secure multi-agent systems, monitoring and detection tools, and secure data pipelines.
- Write code, configure systems, and debug production environments as needed.
Requirements
- Experience as a CISO, VP of Security, or Head of Security at a high-growth technology company is expected, ideally involving AI systems.
- Deep hands-on experience securing AI and machine learning systems, including LLM architectures, model training pipelines, and inference infrastructure.
- Experience building and operating cloud-native security programs across AWS, GCP, or Azure, including zero-trust, identity and access management, and secure multi-tenant architectures.
- Deep knowledge of threat modeling and red teaming, ideally involving prompt injection, model inversion, or data poisoning.
- Experience designing and implementing security monitoring, incident response, and compliance programs from startup through enterprise readiness.
- A track record of building or contributing to security products or tooling used by customers or other teams.
- Ability to work entrepreneurially, handle ambiguity, understand commercial trade-offs, communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and build institutional knowledge.
Benefits
- Remote work from the U.S. or Canada
- U.S. applicants are full-time employees; Canadian applicants are independent contractors
- Opportunity to shape AI security practices and develop potentially commercialized security products
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About Human Agency
At Human Agency, we help people with big ideas expand their agency and deliver real impact. We partner with entrepreneurs and help run and grow their companies, embed within large organizations to lead their AI implementation and transformation, and build companies via our venture studio. We bring business, AI, marketing and technology expertise to build and scale innovative organizations from the ground up.