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title: 'Vice President, Cyber AI at Eliza'
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# Vice President, Cyber AI at Eliza

- **Company:** Eliza
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/eliza/1d66570e-10d8-47de-8bf0-952f57905f78

## Job description

## Who We Are

Eliza is a technology services company and Advanced-tier OpenAI partner that's dedicated to helping organizations build and deploy cutting-edge AI solutions. From generative AI and custom LLM integrations to predictive analytics and intelligent automation, we work across industries to bring real-world AI applications to life. Our projects combine deep technical expertise with hands-on client collaboration to solve high-impact problems.

The Shape of the Role Our VP Cyber is a practice leader first. You'll build and run Eliza's Office of the CISO, the security practice we're launching to help enterprise security leaders get ahead of AI-driven threats. You'll own its revenue number, its client relationships, and the team that delivers the work. You'll report directly to the CTO and sit on Eliza's executive team.

Here's why now: Software has never been easier to build, and it's never shipped with less security. AI-assisted development is growing the amount of code every security team has to defend, and the same tools are making attackers faster. Security leaders feel that pressure today, and our partnership with OpenAI puts us in the room with them. Right now our technical leadership carries this work on top of their existing jobs. That got us early conversations with serious buyers. It won't get us a practice.

This is the first hire in the function which means you will build the practice team, playbook, and book of business. You'll also own Eliza's internal security program. It's lean today, but it gets interesting fast: we build composable, adaptive AI software, and securing it is a problem nobody has fully solved yet.

Two things to know before applying. First, we're an AI-native firm and we work that way internally: this practice is scoped to start lean because we expect you to use AI tools aggressively across everything you do, from threat research and code review to proposals, client education, and delivery playbooks. If AI isn't already core to how you work, this role will feel impossible. Second, this is a fast-paced, high-ownership environment. You'll get outcomes, not instructions. Priorities shift quickly, ambiguity is constant, and the bar is high.

## Key Responsibilities

1. Build and own the Office of the CISO practice

- Own the practice P&L and revenue number starting from zero, including pricing, packaging, and which offers we lead with
- Define our service lines across security assessments, red, blue, and purple team work, and security training, and decide where AI-assisted delivery gives clients a real edge
- Set the practice strategy with the CEO and hold it accountable to pipeline and revenue targets

1. Lead with education and win CISO relationships

- Act as the face of the practice with CISOs and security leaders. Open doors, run executive briefings, and close engagements alongside our commercial team.
- Build the thought leadership that makes Eliza the first call security leaders make: talks, briefings, workshops, and a clear point of view on AI and security
- Sell by teaching. The CISOs we meet don't need a pitch. They need someone who has lived the problem and can explain what's changed.

1. Own the OpenAI security partnership

- Act as Eliza's senior security counterpart to OpenAI's security and partner teams, and hold your own technically with their leadership
- Turn partner leads and co-sell opportunities into scoped, funded engagements
- Meet and maintain the capability standards the partnership requires, starting with running security work on our own platform first

1. Build the delivery organization

- Hire and lead the practice team of security engineers and consultants, starting lean and scaling with demand
- Build repeatable delivery: workshop formats, assessment methods, evidence standards, and the quality bar every engagement is held to
- Stay hands-on. Early on, expect to be in the code, the findings, and the client room.

1. Serve as Eliza's Security Leader

- Own Eliza's internal security program, policies, and posture as we grow
- Define how we secure composable, adaptive AI software, a new threat surface without an established playbook
- Treat Eliza as customer zero. What we learn securing our own platform becomes what we sell.

To be successful, we expect someone to have…

- Current or recent experience operating as a VP or equivalent security executive. You're already doing this job at a high level.
- Experience building a services business, security consultancy, or managed or delivery services organization, including owning revenue
- Credibility with CISOs as a peer. You can walk into a room with a Fortune 500 security leader and they lean in.
- Deep technical roots. You still read code, understand how modern applications and cloud infrastructure break, and can pressure-test a finding yourself.
- A point of view on how AI changes attack and defense, backed by daily use. Show us how you use AI tools today to research threats, review code, and get more security work done, faster, at higher quality.
- A track record of thought leadership: speaking, writing, advising, or teaching that has shaped how other security leaders think
- A habit of owning outcomes, not tasks. You're comfortable building from zero with a revenue target and no playbook.
- Willingness to travel frequently for client and partner meetings

And maybe…

- Experience in high-stakes or highly regulated environments like financial services, national security, defense, or critical infrastructure
- A background in offensive security, red teaming, or security research
- Experience at a security services or penetration testing firm, or building a security practice inside a consulting firm
- Firsthand experience leading an organization through a major security incident, and the lessons that came with it

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## What We Offer

- Competitive executive compensation: base salary, meaningful equity, and upside tied to the growth of the practice you build
- A seat on Eliza's executive team
- Direct partnership with OpenAI's security organization on one of their top priority areas
- Remote flexibility, with in-person time where it matters
- The chance to define what AI-native security services look like for a whole market
- Full ownership from day one. You're building the practice, not inheriting one.

## About Eliza

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Eliza is an AI-native consulting firm that helps enterprises integrate and adopt OpenAI's technology through training, workflow redesign, and custom AI system development.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Stephen Garden (CEO) and Brian Benedict (Co-founder, Chief Commercial Officer)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Enterprise AI Consulting & Implementation
- Target customers: B2B, Enterprise (large organizations, private equity firms, CPG companies)
- Mission: "Help enterprises integrate and adopt AI to transform operations, improve productivity, and accelerate innovation."

## Products & Services
- **Fusion**: AI fluency and training service – embeds AI Architects and enablement leaders to provide ChatGPT training and consulting, turning ChatGPT Enterprise into a productivity engine.
- **Flow**: AI-assisted workflow automation – simplifies and accelerates core processes such as customer support, employee onboarding, and finance approvals.
- **Forge**: Custom AI engineering – builds production-grade AI systems (intelligent agents, copilots, embedded automations) from proof-of-concept to deployment.
- **Client Services / Forward Deployed Engineering**: On-the-ground talent that translates business problems into AI-powered solutions, from use case discovery through delivery.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Notably, Eliza delivered $12.5M in value across deal intelligence solutions for a $4BN private equity firm and a 10,000+ user ChatGPT rollout for a global private equity firm.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: OpenAI Services Partner
- **Growth Signals**: 57 total employees (as of latest data); actively recruiting across multiple roles; described as "rapidly growing" on careers page; team collectively scaled 6 startups to over 4,000 employees and $500M in revenue.

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep partnership with OpenAI as an official Services Partner.
- Platform-powered services delivery model combining AI product leadership with tech services entrepreneurship.
- End-to-end offerings spanning training, workflow redesign, and custom software development – moving clients beyond pilots to production.
- Leadership team with experience scaling startups to significant revenue and headcount.

## Strategic Focus
- Helping enterprises move "from AI ambition to action" – bridging the gap between frontier AI technology and real enterprise impact.
- Focusing on building AI-fluent workforces, redesigning core workflows, and shipping production-grade AI systems that deliver measurable ROI.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High-trust, high-autonomy teams; "curiosity is rewarded, growth is expected, and impact is shared." Emphasis on "builders, thinkers, and doers."
- **Work style**: In-office (Austin, TX). Employees work from physical offices.
- **Growth**: Described as a "launchpad for personal and professional growth" – "we move fast, but we invest in you faster."
- **Impact**: From day one, work on projects that drive real transformation for forward-looking organizations.
- **Team**: Collaborative environment with thoughtful technologists, strategists, and creatives solving novel problems.

## Sources
1. [eliza.com](https://eliza.com/)
2. [eliza.com/careers](https://eliza.com/careers)
3. [eliza.com/about](https://eliza.com/about)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/eliza](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/eliza)
5. [builtin.com/company/eliza](https://builtin.com/company/eliza)

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