Director, Information Security

The posting, as PubMatic wrote it

About the Role

PubMatic is seeking a Director of Information Security to lead and evolve our global security program across enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, products, corporate systems, and emerging AI technologies.

Executive Communication

Strong command of board-level and executive presentation, including the judgment to lead with risk, business impact, or compliance depending on the audience. Ability to translate complex security concepts into clear, decision-ready narratives for leadership, auditors, and regulators.

Security Operations & User Impact

Ability to design and roll out security controls that protect the organization without slowing people down. Must balance risk posture with operational velocity, plan phased implementations and manage change adoption across technical and non-technical teams .

AI & Automation

Working knowledge of AI-powered security tooling (automation, threat detection, incident triage) and familiarity with emerging AI-specific risks such as LLM vulnerabilities, prompt injection, and data leakage through AI tools. Ability to shape organizational policy on safe AI adoption.

What You'll Do

Security Strategy & Leadership

• 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.

Security Engineering & Operations

• 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.

AI Security

• 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.

Governance & Business Partnership

• Maintain enterprise security governance in partnership with compliance and privacy teams, and third-party security programs.
• Partner with business leaders to bala

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ys “working remotely”) that is intended to maximize collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams and across functions.

Benefits: Our benefits package includes the best of what leading organizations provide such as, paid leave programs, paid holidays, healthcare, dental and vision insurance, disability and life insurance, commuter benefits, physical and financial wellness programs, unlimited DTO in the US (that we actually require you to use!), reimbursement for mobile and fully stocked pantries plus in-office catered lunches 5 days per week.

Diversity and Inclusion : PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don’t just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status

About PubMatic

PubMatic is one of the world’s leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.

Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.

Compensation Disclosure

In accordance with applicable law, the below salary rang e provided is PubMatic’s reasonable estimate of the total compensation for this role. New hires and current team members are typically compensated toward the middle of our pay range. The actual amount may vary, based on non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, knowledge, skill s and abilities. In addition to salary PubMatic also offers a bonus and a competitive benefits package.

Total Compensation Range
$210,000 — $250,000 USD