Head of Generative AI Security (Hybrid)
About Citi:
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.
Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.
About Our Team
The Chief Information Security Office (CISO) is home to deeply talented colleagues that work to ensure the safety of Citi's clients', our revenue, our employees and our proprietary data. We manage information security as one end-to end program – one with a clear mandate and accountability. Our mission is a program that is fully anchored to modern control and architectural frameworks, is fully aligned with the enterprise architecture of the firm and is deeply integrated into the sectors and functions.
The Head of Generative AI Security will take critical leadership of a strategically important priority for the firm. We have an extensive and robust AI program, with strong global partnerships and business activities in progress. We view Generative AI as a significant opportunity, one we want to move quickly and embrace, but also one we want to embed security principles and engineering excellence into early. This security leader will partner with many areas of Citi coming together to accelerate and secure the technology and business activities needed. The role reports into the CISO organization with dedicated functional alignment to Citi’s Generative AI enablement group.
Job Overview:
Key Responsibilities -
Build and run a security engineering function that accelerates and delivers creative and secure capabilities to unlock the value of Gen AI
Lead threat modelling and security integration of Gen AI platforms and business solutions
Lead model input and output security including prompt injection and security assurance
Provide thought leadership and create to mature Gen AI security governance embedding into our existing cyber security risk appetite framework
Manage regional relationships and successfully represent the global CISO interests
Manage a complex matrixed team, including the people, budget, policy formation, and strategy planning, within a globally matrixed organization.
Build internal and external networks to ensure alignment across programs, industry best practices, and to maintain current knowledge regarding cybersecurity threats and risks. Communicate with peers, regulators, law enforcement etc., when necessary.
Communicate and drive priorities from CISO Leadership management to matrixed and non-matrixed teams within the organization through influence and strong communication skills.
Understand the current external threat environment and advise relevant stakeholders on the appropriate courses of action, promoting security as an enabler for business innovation and digitization, including the evaluation and recommendation of technical controls.
Identify, assess, track, and report on security issues identified in third-party/supplier due diligence processes, self-assessments, architectural reviews, application testing, vulnerability scans, bug bounty programs, penetration testing, change management, cyber exercises, reviews and audits. Technically advise stakeholders on recommendations and remediation plans.
Ideate and leverage Gen AI to solve cybersecurity problems at scale for Citi
Provide support for regulatory activities.
Lead and mentor a team of cybersecurity engineers, providing technical guidance, support, and high-performance engineering culture.
Qualifications include:
• 15+ years of experience in Information/Cybersecurity
• 5+ years of experience leading security product and / or engineering functions
• Detailed understanding of data security, AI, machine learning, data science
• A demonstrated knowledge of information security standards, rules and regulations related to information security and data confidentiality and other various security standards and policies.
• Ability to understand not only emerging industry trends as far as cyber security is concerned, but also the landscape of emerging threats, making appropriate adjustments within the ICG program.
• Ability to operate effectively across a highly matrixed, global business environment.
• Strong leadership, strategic thinking, and large-scale planning abilities.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization, while being able to simplify complex IS topics for understanding and critical decision making by ICG and Citi Senior Management.
• Excellent problems solving abilities and analytical skills; proven ability to effectively drive global teams to meet challenging deadlines solving complex problems.
• Ability to apply a broad and comprehensive understanding across multiple functional areas.
• Strong work ethic, and an excellent use of discretion and judgment.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and lead multiple deliverables simultaneously across a large, global corporate environment.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
Master’s degree preferred
Professional certifications, such as CISSP/CISM/CISA/CSSLP, or willingness to obtain certification within 12 months of start date.
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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