Abnormal AI is a behavioral AI security platform that protects email, identity, and AI—and stops insider threats. Trusted by 5,000 organizations. Backed by Greylock, Insight and Menlo.
About the role
Abnormal AI protects organizations from the most sophisticated email and collaboration attacks using behavioral AI. Security is not a bolt-on at Abnormal; it is core to the product we sell and the trust our customers place in us. Our security organization operates a commercial cloud environment and a separate FedRAMP-authorized environment, and we are pursuing increasingly rigorous federal authorizations as we grow. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years in security or software engineering, including 4+ years managing security teams, ideally including managers of managers or equivalent scope
- A genuine software engineering background: you have shipped production software, and you evaluate security solutions the way an engineer would
- A proven record of building and scaling high-performing security teams, with alumni who would work for you again
- Deep technical fluency in cloud-native environments: AWS organizations and multi-account governance, Kubernetes, identity and access, detection engineering, and modern SDLC security
- Demonstrated cross-functional leadership: you have earned the trust of engineering leaders and shipped security outcomes through their teams, not around them
- Strong written communication: you produce decision-ready documents and can drive alignment asynchronously
More about this role
Abnormal AI protects organizations from the most sophisticated email and collaboration attacks using behavioral AI. Security is not a bolt-on at Abnormal; it is core to the product we sell and the trust our customers place in us. Our security organization operates a commercial cloud environment and a separate FedRAMP-authorized environment, and we are pursuing increasingly rigorous federal authorizations as we grow.
We are hiring a Director of Security reporting to the CISO and leading the Security Engineering organization. You will build and scale high-performing security teams, own major security programs end to end, and operate autonomously in the CISO's absence, including representing security to executive leadership, customers, and auditors.
This is a role for a deeply technical leader with a software engineering background who has grown into people leadership. You have built security teams from the ground up, you write and review code and architecture when it matters, and you believe the best security organizations earn their influence through partnership rather than policy enforcement.
- Security reduces toil. Our job is to make the rest of the company faster and safer at...
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