Group Manager – AI Safety & Cyber Research
About the Position
We are seeking an experienced Group Manager to lead the whole intent-analysis program: two Team Leads, four Domain Experts, and a pool of freelance reviewers. This role is dedicated to delivering high-quality intent labels for cybersecurity prompts that an AI system could not confidently classify as benign or malicious.
You need a strong cybersecurity background across offensive and defensive domains, proven experience managing managers and technical specialists, and the ability to run a data-quality program at scale.
What you'll do:
- Own delivery against volume, turnaround, and quality targets across all three profiles
- Manage and develop the two Team Leads
- Define the intent taxonomy and annotation guidelines together with the Team Leads, and approve changes to them
- Decide freelancer headcount and its split across profiles, based on the row volume per profile
- Review quality and throughput metrics across the program and drive corrective actions
- Plan hiring and onboarding of full-time experts and freelancers, and manage the related budget
- Act as the escalation point for sensitive, policy-edge, or cross-team cases and as the main contact for stakeholders
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in cybersecurity, including at least 4 years managing technical specialists or managers
- Broad working knowledge of the program's profiles (vulnerability research and reverse engineering, ICS/OT firmware, malware and threat analysis, and offensive security across enterprise, cloud, and web), enough to judge expert decisions and guideline changes
- Experience running data labeling, quality assurance, trust and safety, or content review programs at scale, including QA sampling, calibration, and inter-annotator agreement
- Experience managing a mix of full-time employees and freelancers, including capacity planning against variable volume
- Strong judgment on dual-use cybersecurity content and on assessing intent
- Clear written and verbal communication in English, including reporting to stakeholders
Nice to have:
- CISSP, CISM, OSCP
- Experience in AI safety, trust and safety, or red teaming of AI systems
About Alice
THE CHALLENGES ALONG THE WAY
1. Being Both Strategist and Executioner
One of the hardest parts of this role is that you’re both the visionary and the builder; the one drawing the map and paving the road.
That means switching between high-level strategy and hands-on experimentation daily, and doing it while bringing others along with you. There’s no playbook for this kind of work. You’re paving an unpaved road, one small experiment at a time.
2. Balancing Security and Innovation
ActiveFence is the leading provider of security and safety solutions for online experiences, safeguarding more than 3 billion users, top foundation models, and the world’s largest enterprises and tech platforms every day.
As a trusted ally to major technology firms and Fortune 500 brands that build user-generated and GenAI products, ActiveFence empowers security, AI, and policy teams with low-latency Real-Time Guardrails and a continuous Red Teaming program that pressure-tests systems with adversarial prompts and emerging threat techniques. Powered by deep threat intelligence, unmatched harmful-content detection, and coverage of 117+ languages, ActiveFence enables organizations to deliver engaging and trustworthy experiences at global scale while operating safely and responsibly across all threat landscapes.