Principal AI Cybersecurity Advisor | Remote

_ This position will be fully remote and can be hired anywhere in the continental U.S. _

The Principal AI Advisor, Center of Excellence plays a critical role in serving as a trusted partner to Optiv’s clients. By combining advanced business and AI security practitioner knowledge, the Principal AI Cybersecurity Advisor designs AI security solutions using some of the most advanced security services and technologies to achieve highly defensible and scalable security programs. The Principal Advisor has extensive real-world knowledge in AI security and can design pragmatic security solutions tailored to each client’s unique environment and provide our clients and sellers with consistent security expertise on all sales opportunities.

The Principal Advisor will drive thought leadership and inspired cyber security solutions powered by our ecosystem of people, products, and partners in all areas of AI.

• Architect and engineer advanced AI security solutions for clients
• Demonstrate AI security products and capabilities in a lab
• Understand and leverage advanced AI and cloud security tools, techniques, and capabilities
• Deep understanding of agentic workflow management, API security, Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI runtime security, and security within cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Direct experience deploying AI security in production environments to manage AI risk, compliance, data leakage, AI/agentic identity, or secure AI operations
• Understanding how to secure Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Nvidia Nemotron and/or open-source models such as Llama, Mistral, or Gemma
• Drive pipeline generation of AI security managed services and technologies business to meet or exceed quarterly and annual quota objectives in partnership with the account and domain teams in all areas relating to AI security opportunity
• Maintain expert level knowledge of the current AI security environment, partner AI security capabilities, and best practices related to AI security
• Identify AI related security concerns and/or potential application of AI security and toolsets and determine how they correlate into Optiv’s strategic solutions across the assigned domain and holistic cyber security programs
• Identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities across clients and Optiv’s partner relationships
• Qualify, lead, and partner with internal colleagues to determine scope, proposal management, and follow through to closure
• Participate in sales opportunities across Optiv’s entire portfolio as it relates to AI product, services, and/or advisement opportunity
• Clearly articulate how the necessary elements of the Optiv AI technology and services portfolio meet the specific needs of the client stakeholders at an executive level
• Stay abreast of industry trends, news, and maintain a broad understanding of the AI security landscape to facilitate thought leadership, internal and external support, analysis, and guidance to clients and internal Optiv groups
• Maintain advisory relationships with key stakeholders at clients by facilitating thought leadership, support, information, and guidance in conjunction with sales partners
• Maintain strong working relationships with relevant Optiv technology partners, based on client spend, and Optiv focus in area of CoE focus and AI security
• Identify and drive complete AI security programs to meet client objectives across technology and services including;
  • leading new discussions by leveraging peer and industry network contacts
  • performing requirements analysis, and technology selection criteria
  • coordinating demonstrations and security technology evaluations
  • leading cross organizational solutions leveraging Optiv’s portfolio
• Interface and partner with the internal Optiv teams to align…