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Posting Type Remote/Hybrid Job Overview The Director of the Enablement and Innovation team is a tenured security practitioner with experience in engineering, product management, threat modeling, artificial intelligence, data science, and data security. The successful candidate will provide leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and mentorship to a team of highly experienced security engineers.
This person will outcomes for large innovation projects across Engineering, IT, and Security. Will direct security reviews and risk assessments, partnering with security teams on threat modeling, for strategic, high-risk innovation initiatives, will identify and advise on remediation of risks related to emerging technologies, including but not limited to LLMs.
A leader in this position will be expected to influence AI security guardrails at scale, including enforcement mechanisms, custom security tooling, and automated tests integrated into CI/CD and engineering workflows.
Job Description and Requirements The Director of Security and Innovation Enablement is a senior leader who balances Relativity's digital assets with accelerating new technology adoption.
Leadership and Strategic Execution
- Leads a team of senior security technologists
- Participates with other senior leaders to execute on strategic plans and objectives
- Makes final decisions on administrative or operational matters and ensures effective achievement of objectives
- Has significant input on planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending/implementing changes to methods
- Ensures budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements
- Participates in corporate development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people
Innovation and Enablement
- Maintains a portfolio of significant large-scale innovation projects and creates reporting for these
- Directs the creation of safe, pre-governed pathways for teams to test and deploy new tools (such as AI platforms, cloud workflows, or third-party software) without creating security vulnerabilities
- Innovation Accelerator: Replaces rigid "no" cultures in IT and security with a streamlined intake, sandbox, and evaluation process for emerging technology
- AI and Operational Enablement: Champions safe AI usage, automated workflows, and risk mitigation against data privacy issues, model bias, and regulatory gaps
- Runs the Security Innovation Enablement processes and reports outcomes to Security leadership
- Collaborates with enterprise teams to advance new technologies from evaluation through secure enterprise rollout
- Supports deep technical security evaluations with Procurement, Product, and Engineering
Cross-Functional and Executive Engagement
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Partners closely with technology, product, or engineering teams to align growth goals with security guardrails
- Regularly interacts with executives and/or major customers
- Handles interactions that frequently involve special skills, such as negotiating with customers or management, or attempting to influence senior-level leaders on matters of significance to the organization
Complexity and Accountability
- Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of the company
- Is accountable for decisions that carry serious impact: erroneous decisions will have a serious impact on the overall success of functional, division, or company operations
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent experience
- Working knowledge of common cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or GCP
- Broad experience across security domains such as application, cloud, AI, data security and engineering pipelines
- Experience supporting compliance and audit requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA) from a technical control perspective
- Balancing Risk and Agility: Creates safe, pre-governed pathways for teams to test and deploy new tools (such as AI platforms, cloud workflows, or third-party software) without creating security vulnerabilities
- Security and Compliance Oversight: Oversees corporate cybersecurity baselines, zero-trust architecture, identity access management, and compliance frameworks (such as ISO 27001, CMMC, or NIST guidelines)
- Ability to communicate technical findings clearly to both engineering peers and non-technical stakeholders
- 10+ years of technology leadership experience, including 5+ years in people leadership
- Product or program management experience with roadmaps, OKRs, and Agile delivery
- Working knowledge of AI risk frameworks such as NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, and CSA MAESTRO
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree
- Experience leading people leaders
- Comfort in communicating with C-level executives
- Familiarity with industry standard security technologies / configuration
- Outstanding work ethic with a passion for Cyber Security
- Certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP
- Experience working in a SaaS environment operating on a global scale
- Experience in the legal space and with a high understanding of e-discovery and litigation
Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices. This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives. The expected salary range for this role is between following values: $211,000 and $317,000
The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position. Required Skills: Access Management, Loss Prevention Plans, Network Security, Risk Management, Security Architecture Design, Security Audit, Security Awareness, Security Engineering, Security Operations, Vulnerability Management
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