Director of Security and Privacy Engineering

Banking is being reimagined—and customers expect every interaction to be easy, personal, and instant. We are building a universal banking assistant that millions of U.S. consumers can use to transact across all financial institutions and, over time, autonomously drive their financial goals. Powered by our proprietary BankGPT platform, this assistant is positioned to displace age-old legacy systems within financial institutions and own the end-to-end CX stack, unlocking a $200B opportunity and potentially replacing multiple publicly traded companies.

Ultimately, our mission is to drive financial well-being for millions of consumers.

With over two-thirds of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, 50% holding less than $500 in savings, and only 17% financially literate, we aim to put financial well-being on autopilot to help solve this problem.

About the Role

As the Director of Security & Privacy Engineering, you will report to the VP of Engineering and play a pivotal role in defining and executing interface.ai’s enterprise-wide security and privacy strategy.

You will build and lead a program that ensures our AI products and cloud infrastructure are secure, compliant, and resilient, fostering customer trust and meeting regulatory requirements. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role influencing technology, governance, and culture across the organization. You will lead the development of a secure, compliant, and resilient environment for our AI products and cloud infrastructure — ensuring customer trust and adherence to industry regulations.

This is both a strategic and hands-on leadership role that will influence technology, governance, and culture across the organization.

You will be responsible for leading the company’s cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance programs; establishing strong internal controls; managing security risk; and driving security-by-design practices across all engineering and AI initiatives.

What you will do:

As a Director of Security & Privacy Engineering you will be reporting to the VP of Engineering and will be responsible for:

• Own all aspects of Security (excluding physical security), Privacy, and Compliance across the company.

• Develop and enforce security and privacy policies, procedures, and standards, ensuring organization-wide compliance.

• Lead cybersecurity incident response and continuous risk assessment programs.

• Partner with the executive team to align security strategy with business goals and risk tolerance.

• Oversee compliance with GLBA, FFIEC, SOC 2, and other applicable frameworks.

• Champion privacy-by-design principles across product and AI initiatives.

• Partner with Sales, Legal, Compliance, and Product teams to address security inquiries and due diligence requests.

• Deliver executive-level security and risk reports to leadership and the board.

• Collaborate with Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure teams to embed Dev Sec Ops and secure architecture practices.

• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of security and privacy engineers.

• Foster a culture of proactive risk management, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive cybersecurity leadership experience, ideally within financial services, banking, mortgage, or consumer lending industries.

• Experience with Cloud Security and controls especially in AWS environment.

• Strong knowledge and application of lending and consumer protection laws and regulations such as FFIEC, GLBA, etc.

• Knowledge of SOC controls, general IT security, control frameworks and familiarity with ISO 7000 standards.

• Hands-on knowledge of data security, encryption, identity management, and threat modeling.

• Strong interpersonal communication, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.

• Comfortable with balancing multiple, competing priorities and changes in a dynamic fast paced environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or related field .

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or related field.

• Experience in a startup or high-growth SaaS/AI company.

• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or ISOLead Implementer.

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