Director, Artificial Intelligence Security & Safeguards

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• Posted on September 15, 2026

• National Search
  - Remote United States
• Remote
• Technology
• Full-Time
• Requisition #: DIREC
  006661

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Responsible for Finance of America’s program for securing the artificial intelligence the company builds, buys, and embeds in customer-facing and back-office processes. Establishes the controls, governance, and monitoring that allow the company to adopt AI at speed without creating unacceptable risk to borrower data, model integrity, or regulatory standing. Performs the technical work of the program, including AI red teaming, model and application security testing, and guardrail and control validation.

• Owns the strategy, roadmap, and execution of the company’s AI Security and Safeguards program, including control design, tooling selection, and measurement of program maturity.
• Performs the technical work of the program personally, including AI red teaming and adversarial testing, security testing of models and AI-enabled applications, guardrail and control validation, detection engineering, and configuration and tuning of AI security tooling.
• Serves as the enterprise subject matter expert on AI security, and is expected to hire, develop, and lead a small team as program demand and approved headcount allow.
• Maintains a current inventory of AI systems in use across the enterprise, including first-party applications, embedded vendor capabilities, and employee-adopted tools, and owns the discovery process that keeps it complete in collaboration with the Technology Risk Management team.
• Designs and operates safeguards against AI-specific threats, including prompt injection, model and data poisoning, unauthorized model access, over-privileged agentic tooling, insecure agent-to-tool integration protocols such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and loss of sensitive or nonpublic personal information through AI channels.
• Integrates AI-specific security requirements into enterprise governance processes, including procurement, third-party risk management, change control, and the software development lifecycle.
• Personally conducts security reviews of proposed AI use cases, evaluating data handling, model behavior, system integration, and output reliability, and issues clear approve, conditional, or decline recommendations with documented rationale.
• Partners with Legal, Compliance, Technology Risk, Enterprise Risk, and model risk functions to ensure AI use meets regulatory, fair lending, and consumer protection obligations, with particular attention to the company’s predominantly senior customer population.
• Partners with the Security Operations Center and Emerging Technology teams to build detection, investigation, and response capability for AI-related events, including AI-specific response playbooks and escalation criteria.
• Establishes and reports measurable indicators of AI risk posture and control effectiveness to the Chief Information Security Officer, technology leadership, and risk committee and board audiences, as requested.
• Authors and maintains information security policies, standards, and guidelines related to AI, and supports evidence production for internal audit,…