Senior Manager, AI Red Team, Threat Operations

About the role

The Senior Manager leads the AI Red Team within Threat Operations. The role involves building and leading a team of security engineers and researchers focused on security research and offensive security operations targeting AI systems, infrastructure, and emerging threats. Key responsibilities include setting strategic direction for AI security research and offensive operations, overseeing sophisticated Red Team operations, and partnering with security teams to protect critical AI offerings.

Responsibilities

• Building and leading a team of security engineers with expertise in offensive security, AI/ML systems, threat intelligence, and security automation
• Establishing and driving the strategic vision for AI offensive security research, focusing on emergent threats and novel attack surfaces in the AI ecosystem
• Overseeing sophisticated Red Team operations targeting AI assets including training pipelines, inference systems, model architectures, and supporting infrastructure
• Driving cross-organizational security initiatives to assess how growing reliance on AI introduces new vulnerabilities across the enterprise
• Partnering with security teams to protect critical AI offerings and ensure customer security in AI workloads
• Developing scalable offensive security automation and AI-augmented testing tools that can be shared across the organization
• Translating technical security findings into strategic recommendations for senior leadership, clearly articulating business impact and risk
• Recruiting, mentoring, and developing security talent with diverse backgrounds spanning offensive security and AI/ML expertise
• Fostering collaboration between security engineers and research scientists to advance the field of AI security
• Establishing metrics and reporting frameworks to demonstrate security program effectiveness and drive continuous improvement
• Building relationships with security leadership, product teams, and business stakeholders to drive consensus on complex security issues and risk remediation strategies

Requirements

• Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in offensive security, security engineering, or related security domains
• 3+ years of experience managing security teams or leading security programs
• Proven track record of building and scaling security capabilities in complex technology organizations

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of AI/ML security including threats to AI systems, adversarial machine learning, or AI supply chain security
• Experience leading Red Team operations, penetration testing programs, or offensive security research initiatives
• Track record of establishing new security programs or capabilities from the ground up
• Experience working across large organizations to drive security outcomes and build stakeholder consensus
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical security findings into strategic business recommendations for executive audiences
• Experience with cloud security programs at scale
• Strong technical background with hands-on experience in offensive security domains
• Proven ability to recruit and develop diverse technical talent with specialized skillsets
• Experience fostering collaboration between security practitioners and research scientists or applied researchers