[Remote] AI Red Team Delivery Manager (United States)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lakera is a company focused on building the security foundation for AI technologies. They are seeking an AI Red Team Delivery Manager to oversee the delivery of AI red teaming services, mentor a team of engineers, and ensure high-quality security assessments for customers.


Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery of AI red teaming engagements, from scoping through final report delivery
  • Act as the primary customer point of contact during active engagements, ensuring clarity, momentum, and trust
  • Partner with customers to define AI-specific testing objectives, threat models, and success criteria
  • Structure red team assignments based on AI system architecture, model types, agent complexity, and engineer skillsets
  • Attend and support engineers during customer kickoffs, technical deep dives, and executive report readouts
  • QA all assessment reports before customer delivery, ensuring technical accuracy, clarity, and actionable findings
  • Establish and maintain quality standards across deliverables, methodologies, and reporting templates
  • Mentor and develop engineers on the red team, identifying skill gaps and creating structured development plans. Drive the evolution of AI red teaming methodologies based on real-world engagement learnings and emerging attack techniques
  • Build scalable delivery processes that support growth, utilization tracking, and capacity planning
  • Coordinate with Sales and Customer Success on pipeline visibility, forecasting, and engagement readiness

Skills

  • 7+ years of experience in penetration testing, red teaming, or offensive security delivered in a consulting, professional services, or security services environment
  • 3+ years of experience managing or leading security teams serving enterprise-scale organizations
  • A proven track record managing client relationships with large, complex organizations through the full engagement lifecycle
  • Experience scaling a services team or practice, including capacity planning, resource allocation, and quality control
  • Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with comfort presenting in customer scoping calls, technical deep dives, and executive readouts
  • An organized, self-starter approach with an eye for finding creative ways to improve processes and deliver excellence at scale
  • A passion for what AI can do for the good of humanity and a desire to ensure that it is implemented in a secure and ethical way
  • Comfortable in a small and fast moving startup environment
  • Experience conducting AI/ML security assessments (e.g., prompt injection, jailbreaking, model security, or agentic systems) is strongly preferred
  • Familiarity with AI security frameworks such as OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, or similar standards is strongly preferred

Benefits

  • Equity package.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401k plan with employer matching.
  • ESPP Program Available
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Health, wellness, and commuter benefits.

Company Overview

  • Lakera is a real-time GenAI security company that utilizes AI to protect enterprises from LLM vulnerabilities. It was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://www.lakera.ai/.

    • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Lakera has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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