Hybrid Vice President of GenAI Engineering

at Protegrity

• Job title: Vice President of GenAI Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $219,000 - $305,925 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Cloud, Cyber Security
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Palo Alto, United States

About the role

• Vice President of AI Engineering leading global engineering teams at Protegrity. Driving secure, ethical, and innovative AI solutions while fostering a culture of inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Inspire and Lead: Guide high-performing, cross-functional teams in building advanced AI systems, language models, agentic UX, synthetic data, and more.
• Drive Innovation: Champion the adoption of cutting-edge technologies and methodologies, ensuring our AI products are robust, secure and ahead of the curve.
• Shape Strategy: Define and execute the AI technology roadmap, collaborating with leaders across Product, GenAI and Program Management to align technical vision with business goals.
• Champion Security & Ethics: Establish and enforce best practices for AI security, privacy and compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS), including semantic guardrails and privacy-preserving techniques.
• Accelerate Delivery: Oversee the delivery of high-quality AI products on time and within budget, leveraging modern DevSecOps and CI/CD processes.
• Empower Teams: Foster a culture of continuous learning, inclusion and technical excellence. Mentor and develop future leaders in AI engineering.
• Promote Collaboration: Integrate customer feedback, industry trends and emerging technologies into our AI product roadmap.
• Advance Data Discovery: Lead the development of scalable frameworks for data discovery, metadata-driven exploration and automated cataloging.
• Innovate in Synthetic Data: Drive the creation and validation of synthetic data to enhance model robustness, reduce bias and simulate real-world scenarios.
• Design Next-Gen UX: Oversee the creation of agentic, multimodal user interfaces that deliver intuitive, goal-driven AI experiences.

Requirements

• 15+ years of global technology leadership, with a focus on AI, machine learning and agile software development.
• Proven expertise in AI engineering, language models, data science
• Strong background in cybersecurity and data privacy within AI systems.
• Experience managing international teams across India, EMEA and the USA.
• Deep knowledge of data management, cloud platforms and model control protocols.
• Track record of fostering innovation, inclusion and continuous improvement.
• Strong influencing, negotiation, and collaboration skills.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise-scale data discovery, metadata management, and self-service data access.
• Demonstrated ability to architect and enforce semantic guardrails and privacy-preserving AI systems.
• Experience designing agentic UI/UX for intuitive, multimodal AI interactions.

Benefits

• Health Benefits (Health/Dental/Vision)
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401K
• Annual Bonus Incentives
• Short and Long Term Disability