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# Security & Compliance Lead at Playpower Labs

- **Company:** Playpower Labs
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/playpowerlabs/40dbd1c0-50ca-4fdc-bc70-33b229bc9ad2

## Job description

## About PlayPower Labs

PlayPower Labs builds software for leading EdTech companies that serve millions of learners. We help our clients solve hard product and engineering problems so they can deliver better learner experiences through advanced technology, thoughtful design, and reliable execution. We’ve been fully remote since before COVID and plan to stay remote. We are US-based, with a development center in Gandhinagar, India.

## What We Believe

- We believe technology is a force multiplier for education.
- Great software can make learning more engaging, effective, personalized, and accessible for millions of learners worldwide. The future of education will be shaped by advanced online learning, AI, and education data, and we want to help build that future.
- Education data combined with AI is opening up new ways to create adaptive, personalized learning experiences. We’re here to turn those opportunities into real products that learners, educators, and EdTech companies can actually use.

## The Role

We’re looking for someone security-minded, product-aware, and high-energy enough to build the security function without turning it into a paperwork factory. You’ll own security and compliance across product, cloud, engineering workflows, AI tools, agents, MCPs, vendors, and internal processes. The goal is simple: help us move fast, ship safely, and build trust without slowing the team down for no reason. This is for someone who can create practical guardrails, spot real risks, and make security feel like an advantage, not a blocker.

## What You’ll Do

- Own security and compliance across product, engineering, cloud, vendors, and internal systems.
- Build practical security controls around auth, access, secrets, data privacy, infrastructure, and deployments.
- Create safe usage guidelines for AI tools, agents, MCP servers, tool calling, and automation workflows.
- Run vulnerability management, security reviews, risk assessments, and incident response planning.
- Drive compliance readiness for frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, or similar.
- Help teams handle sensitive data properly, especially when using AI tools and third-party platforms.
- Train the team on secure development, AI safety, privacy basics, and common attack patterns.
- Bring a startup mindset: fast decisions, clear ownership, practical fixes, and no security theater.

## What We’re Looking For

- Strong experience in security, compliance, risk, or application/cloud security.
- Good understanding of OWASP, cloud security, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, CI/CD security, and incident response.
- Strong working knowledge of the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, or similar.
- AI-native mindset: you understand the risks around AI tools, agents, MCPs, data leakage, permissions, and prompt/tool misuse.
- Product-minded, practical, calm under pressure, and allergic to pointless bureaucracy.

Bonus Points

- You’ve built security/compliance programs from scratch at a startup.
- You’ve worked on AI governance, agent security, MCP security, or LLM data privacy.
- You can automate security checks, compliance evidence, access reviews, or vendor reviews.
- You’ve taken a company through SOC 2 or ISO 27001 successfully.

## What We Offer

Remote work, real ownership, space to build the security function properly, and a small team that wants security to be sharp, practical, and built into how we ship.

## About Playpower Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Playpower Labs creates next-generation learning products and provides software development, AI/data science, and design consulting services to large education organizations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Chandler, Arizona, USA (primary) and Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
- **Founded**: 2012 (originally started as a non-profit in 2009)
- **Founders**: Derek Lomas (CEO & Chief Learning Scientist), Kishan Patel (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Education Technology (EdTech), E-Learning, Learning Science, AI & Data Science Services
- **Target customers**: Large education organizations (B2B), schools, publishers, edtech companies; also directly serves students via own products (Math Planet)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Powering the Future of Learning” by producing best-in-class learning experiences based on cognitive science, machine learning, and human-centered design.

## Products & Services
- **Smart Paper**: AI-powered platform for paper-digital integration, enabling equitable large-scale assessments by connecting paper and digital learning. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/about)
- **NeuroUX**: Mobile platform for large-scale cognitive and psychological data collection, offering cognitive tests and ecological momentary assessments for researchers. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/about)
- **Math Planet**: Game-based math curriculum for grades 1–8, aligned with over 80 Common Core standards, designed based on cognitive neuroscience of math learning. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/)
- **Consulting Services**: Software development (LMS, online assessments, dashboards), AI & data science consulting, user research + design consulting, learning game design and gamification. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of ~$232,769 (LinkedIn estimate) and total funding of $120,000 (Pre-Seed round, June 2013)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: MacArthur Foundation (research grant), Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute; investors in Pre-Seed round not named
- **Growth Signals**: 73 employees (+11.1% YoY), 5,837 LinkedIn followers (+23.1% yearly), active hiring across technical roles, and expansion of service contracts with large education organizations

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scientific rigor**: Deep roots in academic research (Carnegie Mellon, published randomized controlled trials) and award-winning products (National STEM Game Competition, Marvel Educational App Grand Challenge)
- **Human-centered design**: Combines cognitive science, machine learning, and play-inspired design to create engaging, effective learning experiences
- **Proprietary AI technology**: Smart Paper and NeuroUX platforms offer unique paper-digital integration and mobile cognitive assessment capabilities
- **Experienced team**: 75% of workforce in technical roles, with alumni from top institutions and companies (Amazon, Oracle, Arizona State University)

## Strategic Focus
- Continue scaling consulting services for major education organizations while growing proprietary products (Smart Paper, NeuroUX)
- Deepen AI and data science capabilities to deliver actionable insights and evidence-based learning outcomes
- Expand global footprint (currently offices in USA, India, Netherlands) and strengthen remote/hybrid work culture

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Rated 4.3/5.0 on LinkedIn (43 reviews), with high marks for work-life balance (4.3), culture (4.4), and compensation (4.0)
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Offers a remote work program and flexible work schedules; employees also work from physical offices in Gandhinagar and Chandler
- **Perks**: Free snacks and drinks, flexible hours, and a focus on learning science and innovation
- **Engineering culture**: 75% of staff in technical roles; stack includes microservices, Spring Boot, Selenium, HTML5, CSS, Figma, Git, Jenkins, Jetpack, JUnit, Postman
- **Growth opportunities**: 11% headcount growth, active hiring for specialists and managers; exposure to cutting-edge AI/ML in education

## Sources
1. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/)
2. [playpowerlabs.com/about](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com](https://in.linkedin.com/company/playpower-labs)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/playpower-labs)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/playpowerlabs)

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