Head of Engineering, AI Security (Zürich)
What You'll Do
Lead technical strategy and execution
- Define and drive the architecture and technical direction for Red Teaming and Agentic Security products
- Actively shape product strategy and roadmap, bringing a strong engineering perspective to business and product decisions
- Set and hold a high bar for quality and performance, working closely with product throughout development and deployment.
- Work with sales, customer success, and product to define and meet support and SRE SLAs.
Build and scale a world-class engineering organization
- Build and scale an engineering team that's recognized as world-leading in its field, with support from HR.
- Develop engineers and engineering managers, growing their skills, impact, and career trajectory.
- Build a culture defined by impact, autonomy, and innovation.
Align engineering with product and business goals
- Partner with the VP R&D and leadership to make engineering a driver of business outcomes, not just a delivery function.
- Ensure strong feedback loops between customers and engineering, partnering with product management and sales leadership.
What You'll Bring
- 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including at least 3 years leading managers and scaling teams
- Experience leading engineering teams in both startup and large-corporate environments.
- Experience building enterprise-grade AI and/or cybersecurity products, ideally both, with a strong grasp of the full development lifecycle.
- A track record of elevating an existing engineering team's output, culture, and technical bar, not just building one from scratch.
- Fluency in security and AI concepts, enough to earn credibility with senior engineers in this space quickly. You don't need to be a deep expert.
- Experience operating in a shared-ownership model, contributing strongly to strategy without sole authority
- Strong communication and people leadership: you build real relationships with customers, partners, and your own team.
- Familiarity with the Zurich tech market: hiring and compensation norms, local talent networks, and working culture.
- Strong advantage: experience navigating the tension between startup-style autonomy and large-company process, ideally through an acquisition, integration, or similar structural change.
