Job Description
The Position The Associate Director, AI Security & Risk is a senior contributor responsible for leading enterprise-wide security, governance, and risk oversight for AI systems, agentic architectures, and data pipelines. This role partners deeply with AI developers, ML engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure AI solutions are secure, transparent, and aligned with regulatory and ethical expectations. The ideal candidate brings strong cybersecurity and risk management expertise, combined with a practical understanding of AI/ML technologies, agentic AI behavior, and emerging threat landscapes.
Responsibilities 路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Lead comprehensive AI security and risk assessments across models, data pipelines, agentic systems, and integrations.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Develop and maintain AI risk taxonomies, risk registers, and prioritization frameworks to track and mitigate emerging threats.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Establish and refine AI governance controls, including model documentation, access controls, data-handling standards, and compliance requirements.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Provide guidance to business and engineering teams on responsible AI usage, data leakage prevention, and model governance.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Partner closely with AI system developers, ML engineers, and agent-orchestration teams to embed security and risk controls throughout the AI lifecycle.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Participate in design reviews, sprint planning, and architecture discussions to ensure secure-by-design AI development.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Advise on secure model architectures, agent workflows, tool integrations, and autonomy boundaries.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Collaborate with engineering teams to implement identity boundaries, tool-use restrictions, and data-minimization practices.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Define and maintain traceability standards for agentic AI systems, ensuring all agent actions, tool calls, decision paths, and context inputs are logged and auditable.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Work with engineering teams to implement end-to-end observability, including prompt lineage, tool-use logs, execution boundaries, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and behavioral monitoring.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Analyze agent behavior to detect unsafe patterns, recursive loops, hallucinated actions, or unauthorized tool usage.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Integrate agentic AI telemetry into SOC monitoring, incident response, and forensic workflows.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Present AI risk posture, emerging threats, and mitigation strategies to senior leadership, governance committees, and technical teams.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Serve as a trusted advisor to product, legal, compliance, and engineering teams on AI security and governance topics.
Required Education, Experience, and Skills B.S. Degree with at least 7 years overall work experience and at least 5 years of experience in cybersecurity, IT risk, or related fields, with exposure to AI/ML environments.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Strong understanding of AI architectures, model lifecycles, data governance, and ML security risks.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Experience conducting risk assessments, threat modeling, and compliance reviews.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Excellent analytical, communication, and cross鈥慺unctional leadership skills.
Preferred Education, Experience, and Skills Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC2) and emerging AI governance frameworks.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Demonstrated ability to collaborate with AI developers, ML engineers, and agent鈥憃rchestration teams.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Experience with agentic AI frameworks, including tool鈥憉se governance, autonomy tiers, and execution boundaries.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Expertise in designing or evaluating traceability and observability mechanisms for AI systems.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Familiarity with MCP鈥慴ased architectures or agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, Semantic Kernel, MuleSoft Agent Fabric).
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Knowledge of data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) and model transparency requirements.
路聽聽聽聽聽聽 Technical familiarity with Python, cloud platforms, and ML tooling.
Secondary Job Description
**Who We Are: **
Organon delivers ingenious health solutions that enable people to live their best lives. We are a $6.5 billion global healthcare company focused on making a world of difference for women, their families and the communities they care for. We have an important portfolio and are growing it by investing in the unmet needs of Women鈥檚 Health, expanding access to leading biosimilars and touching lives with a diverse and trusted portfolio of health solutions.聽 Our Vision is clear: A better and healthier every day for every woman.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from candidates with a diverse background. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our applicants.聽
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**Employee Status: **
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements: Organon employees must be able to satisfy all applicable travel and credentialing requirements, including associated vaccination prerequisites
10%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Flex Time
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**Number of Openings: **
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