Director, Information Security

About This Role

This role leads and evolves the company's global security program across enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, products, corporate systems, and emerging AI technologies. The Director of Information Security will be responsible for defining and executing the security strategy, leading security operations, and partnering with business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute PubMatic's enterprise information security strategy and multi-year roadmap
• Lead Security Engineering, Security Operations, Governance, and Incident Response
• Build a highly automated, AI-enabled security organization focused on excellence and operational efficiency
• Establish executive security metrics, KPIs, and reporting for senior leadership and the Board
• Manage a team of security engineers, security investments, vendor relationships, and strategic security initiatives
• Lead security architecture across cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, products, identity, networks, Kubernetes, endpoints, and data protection
• Drive security automation, threat detection, vulnerability management, incident response, and continuous improvement
• Partner with engineering teams to embed security by design throughout the software development lifecycle
• Build reusable security platforms, self-service capabilities, APIs, and automation that enable developers while reducing operational overhead
• Develop and execute the company's AI security strategy and governance framework, with a security focus
• Secure enterprise AI platforms, AI infrastructure, and AI-enabled applications
• Leverage AI-powered technologies to improve threat detection, incident response, security operations, and overall operational efficiency
• Guide the organization on secure adoption of Generative AI while addressing emerging risks such as prompt injection, data leakage, model abuse, and AI-specific attack vectors
• Maintain enterprise security governance in partnership with compliance and privacy teams, and third-party security programs
• Partner with business leaders to balance security, regulatory requirements, employee productivity, and business agility
• Lead security awareness initiatives that promote secure development and responsible AI adoption across the organization

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience with at least 5 years leading enterprise security organizations
• Strong expertise in cloud security, Security Engineering, Security Operations, IAM, Zero Trust, DevSecOps, Kubernetes, network security, and modern enterprise security architectures
• Experience leading enterprise-wide security transformation and implementing automation to improve security operations