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.