Head of AI Security
Posted 1ds ago
Employment Information
Report this job
Job expired or something wrong with this job?
Job Description
Head of AI Security at Capita responsible for AI security strategy and team management. Engaging with various stakeholders to ensure compliance and security in AI platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Owning Capita’s AI security strategy and posture
- Line managing a small, established team of Security Architects
- Providing security leadership across AI-enabled platforms and products
- Partnering with AI technology leaders and Group CISO teams (policy, behaviour and culture, security management, and SecOps)
- Engaging with Capita’s AI Council and the wider business
- Building a demonstrable and defensible AI security framework that builds internal and external trust
Requirements:
- Experience with demonstrable depth in AI and emerging technology security.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional or virtual teams in complex organisations through influence rather than authority.
- Experience developing and executing security strategy, in a large or regulated environment.
- Strong knowledge of AI threat taxonomy: prompt injection, goal hijacking, memory poisoning, non-human identity abuse, and multi-agent attack surfaces.
- Understanding of EU AI Act, NCSC AI security guidelines, OWASP GenAI Security Project, and MITRE ATLAS.
- Ideally involved in academic and/or industry research on AI Security
Benefits:
- Competitive Salary, healthcare
- 23 days’ holiday, rising to 27 (pro rata) – plus the option to buy more after qualifying period
- Paid volunteering day with a charity of your choice
- Generous family leave policies – including 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Cycle2Work scheme, pension, life assurance, and more




















