Security Advisor

Focus AI is transforming engineering productivity through intelligent automation. Our AI-native platform serves a dual purpose: empowering engineers to focus on high-impact work by automating routine tasks, while providing managers with actionable insights to drive strategic alignment and team success.

Led by proven leaders from top-tier institutions (Harvard, Stanford) and industry giants (Microsoft, Salesforce, Palantir), we're building sophisticated tools that eliminate unnecessary meetings, streamline workflows, and deliver smart task prioritization. Our platform reduces time-to-execution, enhances visibility across engineering operations, and ensures daily activities align with strategic objectives.

We're seeking a Data Security Advisor—an experienced security expert—to provide strategic guidance and advisory support in creating robust security architectures that enable partnerships with large enterprises, banks, and healthcare providers. This role is flexible and part-time (a few hours per week).

Curious about what we're building? Check out our demo to see our platform in action: https://demo.focus-ai.com/

What You'll Do:

• Security Architecture Advisory: Develop and guide strategic plans for security architecture, compliance, and data protection practices required by large enterprises, banks, and healthcare providers.
  
  

Compliance and Standards: Advise on adhering to industry standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and other relevant regulatory requirements.

Risk Assessment: Provide expertise in identifying and mitigating security risks, establishing proactive measures to ensure robust protection and compliance.

Mentorship and Coaching: Support technical leadership by providing mentorship on best practices in cybersecurity, data protection, and compliance requirements.

Strategic Recommendations: Regularly collaborate with founders and technical leaders to address strategic security challenges and opportunities for continuous improvement.

You Bring:

• Deep Security Expertise: Extensive senior-level experience designing security architectures and compliance frameworks suitable for highly regulated environments.
  
  

Enterprise-Level Experience: Proven expertise working with large public companies, financial institutions, or healthcare providers, ensuring robust data security and regulatory compliance.

Compliance Knowledge: Strong familiarity with relevant standards and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.).

Advisory Skills: Demonstrated ability to provide high-level strategic advice, mentorship, and effective communication to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Flexible Availability: Ability to engage in a flexible, part-time advisory role, dedicating a few hours per week.

Promise to You:

• High-Impact Advisory Role: Significantly influence technical strategy, engineering practices, and the overall direction of an innovative AI platform.
• Flexible Commitment: Enjoy the flexibility of a part-time advisory role tailored to your schedule and expertise.
• Rewarding Collaboration: Partner closely with experienced founders and a passionate engineering team, directly impacting Focus AI’s success.
• Generational Impact: Your advisory contributions will help build a generational company transforming engineering workflows globally.
  
  

This role offers an opportunity for seasoned security leaders passionate about ensuring robust security architectures in fast-growing technology companies. If you're excited to leverage your expertise to shape a rapidly growing startup, let's talk.