Security Advocate | AI AppSec
Summary
A Security Advocate who bridges application security technology with developers, security teams, and CISOs through public speaking, content creation, and community engagement, focusing on AppSec, offensive security, and AI-powered security testing.
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Security Advocate | AI AppSec based in United Kingdom.
This is a high-impact opportunity for a cybersecurity professional to become a trusted technical voice within the application security community.
You’ll bridge advanced security technology with developers, security engineers, AppSec teams, researchers, and CISOs.
The role combines technical expertise with public speaking, content creation, customer engagement, and community building.
You’ll translate complex vulnerabilities and security concepts into practical, engaging guidance that technical audiences can act on.
From conference talks and live demonstrations to technical content and customer conversations, your work will shape how security teams approach modern threats.
You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Growth to bring market feedback and security expertise into the wider organization.
The position is remote-first and ideal for someone who enjoys cybersecurity, technical storytelling, and building meaningful relationships across the security ecosystem.
Accountabilities:
- Act as a subject matter expert across application and cloud security, with a particular focus on AppSec, offensive security, penetration testing, web/API security, and developer security.
- Represent the security platform at conferences, industry events, webinars, meetups, and other technical community gatherings.
- Create compelling technical content, including articles, videos, presentations, demonstrations, documentation, live sessions, and other educational resources.
- Develop and deliver technical talks and demonstrations that make complex security concepts accessible, practical, and engaging for highly technical audiences.
- Work directly with customers to understand their security challenges, provide best-practice guidance, and identify opportunities to improve the product experience.
- Build and nurture relationships with developer, security, AppSec, and DevSecOps communities to strengthen awareness and engagement.
- Monitor emerging vulnerabilities, threats, security research, and industry trends, translating relevant findings into useful internal and external insights.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Growth teams to ensure customer needs and technical market feedback inform product development and go-to-market initiatives.
- Contribute to a strong security culture by sharing knowledge, challenging assumptions, and helping technical communities adopt more proactive security practices.
- Strong technical cybersecurity background, ideally with experience in application security, offensive security, penetration testing, web/API security, cloud security, or developer-focused security.
- Ability to investigate and understand vulnerabilities and technical concepts deeply enough to explain, demonstrate, and discuss them confidently.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn complex security topics into clear, compelling, and entertaining content.
- Genuine enthusiasm for cybersecurity culture, security research, developers, and the broader technical community.
- Confidence engaging with highly technical audiences both online and in person, including security engineers, developers, researchers, and senior security leaders.
- Strong curiosity and research skills, with a natural interest in understanding how technologies work, where they can fail, and how vulnerabilities can be exploited or mitigated.
- Demonstrated willingness and ability to create technical content across multiple formats, such as writing, videos, demos, presentations, talks, or live sessions.
- Strong relationship-building and customer-facing skills, with the ability to turn technical conversations into meaningful community and product insights.
- Willingness to travel regularly for conferences, meetups, customer engagements, and community events.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
- Competitive salary and equity package.
- Remote-first working environment with regular company offsites.
- Opportunity to have a direct impact on cybersecurity products, technical communities, and customer outcomes.
- Collaborative and inclusive environment with passionate security professionals.
- Exposure to cutting-edge application security, AI-powered security testing, and emerging cybersecurity practices.
- Opportunities to speak at industry events, create technical content, and build a visible profile within the security community.