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Playlab

Head of Privacy & Security

Playlab

Head of Security & Privacy directing security and privacy efforts to protect users at Playlab. Lead programs on risk management and compliance for educational data and technology.

Posted 7/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading security and privacy initiatives, with a strong focus on compliance, risk management, and incident response. Proficient in implementing security controls within fast-paced engineering environments, ensuring a balance between security and operational velocity.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Security Engineering LeadershipDevSecOps IntegrationSOC 2 ComplianceContainer Security on AWS EKSIncident Response Management

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Hard Skills
Security Controls ImplementationRisk ManagementData De-identificationRBAC StandardizationAnomaly Detection EngineeringAppSec Project ManagementGDPR ComplianceAI Threat DefenseSecure Design ReviewsLogging and Auditing
Soft Skills
Excellent CommunicationDecision MakingCross-Functional CollaborationProblem SolvingActionable Consensus Building
Tools & Technologies
SIEMAWS EKSIAMVirtual Network SecuritySecurity Knowledge Bases
Industry Keywords
Education Data PrivacyFERPACOPPATrust and SafetyNonprofit Organizations

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead our security and privacy efforts and protect the students, educators, and partners who use the platform.
  • Drive the security engineering, compliance, and privacy programs forward with end-to-end ownership of risk and customer assurance.
  • Promote effective and thoughtful decision making to reduce uncertainty and increase organizational velocity.
  • Stand up SIEM and detection engineering pipelines to alert on and investigate anomalies before they turn into incidents.
  • Standardize and enforce RBAC on critical systems, including non-human and AI agent identities.
  • Add LLM-assisted and highly contextual code analysis to security-relevant pull requests, addressing tenant isolation and prompt injection threats.
  • Design data de-identification and isolation approaches for privacy-by-design use cases.
  • Keep an up-to-date risk register and security roadmap, communicating clearly through regular updates.
  • Support engineering team with secure design reviews that provide actionable and tradeoff-informed recommendations.
  • Equip customer-facing teams with top-notch trust center content, including security knowledge bases and customer assurance collateral.
  • Lead SOC 2 compliance operations and audits to reduce overhead on engineering and support teams.
  • Lead the incident response function to ensure rapid recovery capabilities.
  • Partner with Trust and Safety on child safety and responsible AI deployments.
  • Work cross-functionally to build partnerships instead of roadblocks.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 7+ years in security roles, with at least 3 years in leadership positions
  • Background implementing security controls in fast-moving engineering organizations - you know how to balance security with velocity
  • Demonstrated examples of projects tackling AppSec challenges and integrating with software development (DevSecOps)
  • Experience securing container-based cloud environments (Playlab is on AWS EKS) including IAM, virtual network security, and logging and auditing capabilities
  • Experience leading GDPR compliance and SOC 2 audits
  • Excellent writing and communication abilities, turning complicated problems into actionable consensus.
  • Bonus Points For...
  • Background in education data privacy (e.g. FERPA, COPPA)
  • Experience defending systems from AI threats (e.g. prompt injection)
  • Experience in nonprofit or mission-driven organizations.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Flexible work
  • Competitive pay & benefits
  • Includes salary, healthcare, retirement, generous time off, and opportunities for professional growth.