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We equip communities with AI tools and hands-on professional development that empowers educators & students to build custom AI apps for their unique context. Over 60,000 educators have published apps on Playlab - and the impact is growing every day.\nAt Playlab, we believe that AI is a new design material - one that should be shaped by many to bring their ideas about learning to life. If you're passionate about building creative, equitable futures for students and teachers, we hope you'll join us.\nThe Role\nPlaylab seeks a Head of Security & Privacy to lead our security and privacy efforts and protect the students, educators, and partners who use the platform. You will drive the security engineering, compliance, and privacy programs forward with end-to-end ownership of risk and customer assurance. You will promote effective and thoughtful decision making to reduce uncertainty and increase organizational velocity.\nThe building blocks are in place, but the next phase of Playlab’s security, compliance, and privacy programs will require maturing and scaling with a growing organization. Playlab’s mission depends on safeguarding educational data for users around the world. Earning trust means delivering on a roadmap that spans tackling AI threats, tracking evolving privacy legislation, and building security automation that makes Playlab a leader in the space.\nAs a nonprofit, we're not chasing an IPO - trust and responsibility is a core part of why people choose to partner with us, and this role is a leader in that work.\nExamples of the work\nExpand SIEM and detection engineering pipelines to alert on and investigate anomalies before they turn into incidents\n\nStandardize and enforce RBAC on critical systems, including non-human and AI agent identities\n\nAdd LLM-assisted and highly contextual code analysis to security-relevant pull requests, addressing tenant isolation and prompt injection threats\n\nDesign data de-identification and isolation approaches for privacy-by-design use cases\n\nLead work on meeting best in class privacy requirements supporting our expansion into the EU\n\nHire and grow your 1-2 other key members of the Privacy & Security team in the next 6 months\n\nExpectations\nKeep an up-to-date risk register and security roadmap, communicating clearly through regular updates\n\nSupport engineering team with secure design reviews that provide actionable and tradeoff-informed recommendations\n\nEquip customer-facing teams with top-notch trust center content, including security knowledge bases and customer assurance collateral\n\nLead SOC 2 compliance operations and audits to reduce overhead on engineering and support teams\n\nLead the incident response function to ensure rapid recovery capabilities\n\nPartner with Trust and Safety on child safety and responsible AI deployments\n\nSupport safely open sourcing code and data to meet our public good mission\n\nWork cross-functionally to build partnerships instead of roadblocks\n\nQualifications\n7+ years in security roles, with at least 3 years in leadership positions\n\nBackground implementing security controls in fast-moving engineering organizations - you know how to balance security with velocity\n\nDemonstrated examples of projects tackling AppSec challenges and integrating with software development (DevSecOps)\n\nExperience securing container-based cloud environments (Playlab is on AWS EKS) including IAM, virtual network security, and logging and auditing capabilities\n\nExperience leading GDPR compliance and SOC 2 audits\n\nExcellent writing and communication abilities, turning complicated problems into actionable consensus\n\nBonus Points For...\nBackground in education data privacy (e.g. FERPA, COPPA)\n\nExperience defending systems from AI threats (e.g. prompt injection)\n\nExperience in nonprofit or mission-driven organizations\n\nTechnologies\nAWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub, Google Workspace, Vanta, Linear, OpenAI, Anthropic, Vercel\nWhy Join Us?\nBuild the product & engineering team behind AI in education: You won't just manage engineers - you'll double a team and shape how it builds technology that's changing how 60,000+ educators across the globe use AI with their students. 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