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Head of Security & Trust

Valkai· Engineering
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Hybrid (New York;Remote;San Francisco)Full TimePosted 1w ago

About the role

Hands-on leadership role owning Valkai's security program and customer trust across enterprise security reviews, security operations, compliance, and AI governance. Collaborates with Engineering, Product, AI Research, and Legal to translate security requirements into practical controls and clear commitments.

Responsibilities

  • Own Valkai's security strategy, roadmap, and operating program, with clear priorities, owners, and reporting on risk and progress.
  • Lead enterprise security reviews, technical diligence calls, questionnaires, and customer audits. Partner with Sales and Legal on security requirements and contractual commitments.
  • Build and maintain our Trust Center, security documentation, architecture overviews, and reusable responses. Automate evidence collection and review workflows to improve speed and accuracy.
  • Own the roadmap and execution for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001, including gap assessments, control implementation, auditor coordination, remediation, and ongoing maintenance.
  • Establish AI governance with Product, AI Research, Engineering, and Legal, including AI risk assessments, model and vendor reviews, data-handling practices, human oversight, and documented responsibilities.
  • Partner with Engineering to strengthen access controls, cloud and application security, tenant isolation, vulnerability management, and protections for AI agents and customer data.
  • Translate recurring customer concerns into product and security improvements, and select the tools, external partners, and future hires needed to scale the function.

Qualifications

  • Security leaders who build: you have built or scaled a security program and move between strategy, technical investigation, and day-to-day execution.
  • Enterprise credibility: you have led security reviews and customer audits, earned enterprise security teams’ trust, and helped resolve blocking issues.
  • Technical depth: you understand cloud architecture, identity and access, data flows, application security, and AI systems to assess risk and collaborate with engineers.
  • Compliance ownership: you have led audits or certifications, owning readiness, evidence, remediation, and ongoing program maintenance.
  • Strong judgment: you prioritize meaningful risks, make practical tradeoffs, and know which customer commitments are feasible.
  • Clear collaborators: you explain security and risk clearly to customers, engineers, and leadership, and create accountability across teams.

Skills

Required:Security program leadershipEnterprise security reviewsCloud securityCompliance & auditsAI governance

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
  • Generous PTO policy.
  • Paid parental leave.
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Valkai

Agent Systems for Life Sciences

Valkai brings life back to life sciences — Agent Systems that coordinate and automate complex workflows across teams.

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