Head of Privacy & Security

About the Company

Playlab is a tech non-profit dedicated to helping educators and students become critical consumers and creators of AI. We equip communities with AI tools and hands-on professional development that empowers educators and students to build custom AI apps for their unique context.

Responsibilities

• Stand up SIEM and detection engineering pipelines to alert on and investigate anomalies
• Standardize and enforce RBAC on critical systems, including non-human and AI agent identities
• Add LLM-assisted and highly contextual code analysis to security-relevant pull requests
• Design data de-identification and isolation approaches for privacy-by-design use cases
• Maintain an up-to-date risk register and security roadmap
• Support engineering team with secure design reviews
• Equip customer-facing teams with trust center content and security knowledge bases
• Lead SOC 2 compliance operations and audits
• Lead the incident response function
• Partner with Trust and Safety on child safety and responsible AI deployments

Requirements

• 7+ years in security roles, with at least 3 years in leadership positions
• Experience implementing security controls in fast-moving engineering organizations
• Demonstrated experience with AppSec and DevSecOps
• Experience securing container-based cloud environments (AWS EKS) including IAM and network security
• Experience leading GDPR compliance and SOC 2 audits
• Excellent writing and communication abilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in education data privacy (e.g. FERPA, COPPA)
• Experience defending systems from AI threats such as prompt injection
• Experience in nonprofit or mission-driven organizations