Director, Security Products: Key Management

Digital Ocean
Austin
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 230,400 - 288,000Function: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Executive communication","Risk translation","Strategic planning"]

Lead AI security risk and governance across DigitalOcean’s customer-facing products. Partner with Security, Product Security, Engineering, and Security Data Science to integrate AI security controls, build and monitor AI/ML guardrails and tooling, and run adversarial testing (red teaming, prompt injection, poisoning, evasion). Own the AI Security strategy and multi-year roadmap, translate risk to executive audiences, and establish policies, standards, and controls for responsible AI/ML development and deployment.

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Director, Security Products: Key Management

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Job Summary

Lead AI security risk and governance across DigitalOcean’s customer-facing products. Partner with Security, Product Security, Engineering, and Security Data Science to integrate AI security controls, build and monitor AI/ML guardrails and tooling, and run adversarial testing (red teaming, prompt injection, poisoning, evasion). Own the AI Security strategy and multi-year roadmap, translate risk to executive audiences, and establish policies, standards, and controls for responsible AI/ML development and deployment.
Location: Austin
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with Product Security and Engineering leadership to define how AI security controls integrate into customer-facing products.
  • •Build, deploy, and monitor in-house AI/ML models, guardrails, tooling, and automations; detect drift and evaluate performance to plan improvements.
  • •Lead adversarial testing and AI red teaming, including jailbreaking, prompt injection, evasion, and poisoning testing.
  • •Conduct security reviews from design through launch, providing architectural sign-off and escalation guidance for high-risk decisions.
  • •Own AI Risk & Governance: define the AI Security strategy and multi-year roadmap, establish policies/standards/controls, and brief executive and board-level stakeholders.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 230,400 - 288,000
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of cybersecurity experience, with at least 4–5 years focused on AI/ML security, adversarial machine learning, or security data science in a production cloud or technology environment.
  • •Track record defining and driving AI/security programs at an organizational level, including ownership of strategy.
  • •Deep practitioner knowledge of adversarial ML attack and defense (evasion, poisoning, model extraction, membership inference, prompt injection).
  • •Strong programming skills in Python and Go with hands-on experience building security tooling and automation.
  • •Fluency in OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and the EU AI Act.
Experience:10+ yearsCybersecurityAI securityCloud
Education:Master's
Skills:Executive communicationRisk translationStrategic planning
Tech Stack:PythonGoOWASP LLM Top 10MITRE ATLASNIST AI RMFISO/IEC 42001EU AI ActRAGAgentic AILLM security

Company Brief

Digital Ocean
Provides cloud infrastructure and developer-focused cloud services including scalable droplets, managed databases, Kubernetes, object storage, and networking to simplify deploying and managing applications for developers and small-to-medium businesses.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2011
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