Security of AI Associate Director

About the role

The Security of AI discipline is one of the fastest-moving areas in enterprise risk today. Every organization deploying AI — whether building proprietary models, integrating LLMs, or standing up agentic workflows — needs to answer hard questions about threat modeling, governance, red teaming, model integrity, and data security. We're helping them answer those questions, and we need a successful leader who can drive that work technically, commercially, and intellectually.

Responsibilities

• Lead Security of AI engagements — AI risk assessments, threat modeling for LLM-integrated applications, agentic system security reviews, red team exercises, and governance program design
• Shape and advance Protiviti's Security of AI service offerings
• Partner with practice leadership to evolve methodology, tooling, and delivery accelerators that keep our offerings aligned with emerging client needs and market direction
• Develop the practice
• Help recruit, mentor, and retain top talent
• Coach managers and senior consultants on technical depth, client delivery, and career growth within the AI security space
• Support business development
• Lead and contribute to client pursuits, develop proposals, and collaborate with directors and managing directors on account strategy and expansion within priority accounts
• Build Protiviti's external presence in AI security
• Contribute thought leadership through publications, speaking engagements, and participation in industry working groups to strengthen brand recognition and market positioning

Requirements

You have a genuine point of view on how AI is changing the threat landscape — and you’ve been building and testing that view hands-on, not just reading about it.

You are comfortable operating at the executive level.

You can walk a CISO through an AI risk assessment, explain prompt injection to a board, and translate governance requirements into engineering guidance — all in the same engagement.

You don’t wait for the industry to catch up. When a new attack vector, model architecture, or regulatory development surfaces, you find out about it on your own and start forming a view before your clients ask.

You care about the business outcome, not just the security finding. You understand that the goal is to help clients move faster with AI, not to slow them down, and your recommendations reflect that.

You want to build something. You see this role as an opportunity to shape a practice, define service lines, and leave a mark on how the profession approaches AI security — not just execute on someone else’s playbook.

You care about developing the people around you. You want to be the reason someone two or three levels below you becomes the next senior leader in this space.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cybersecurity, with meaningful depth in at least one of: security architecture, AI/ML security, application security, cloud security, or security consulting
• Direct experience with AI security risks — prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, supply chain threats in ML pipelines, agentic system access control, or LLM-integrated application security
• Familiarity with the emerging AI security and governance landscape: OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, EU AI Act, and sector-specific AI risk guidance
• Track record of owning client relationships and managing multi-workstream engagements from kickoff through delivery
• Strong communicator. You can explain AI risk to a security engineer, a CISO, and a board — without changing the substance
• Experience leading and developing teams of consultants and senior consultants

Skills

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, or similar) or equivalent demonstrated experience

Professional certification such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CISA, or equivalent preferred

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverages

FSA and HSA healthcare accounts

Life and accident insurance

Adoption and fertility assistance

Paid parental leave up to 10 weeks

Short/long term disability

401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions

Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time

Up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year

Pay

$165,000.00 - $282,000.00

Schedule

Hybrid workplace