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Head of SecurityApollo Research · London
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Head of Security

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-14 London Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 6,666 GBP–10,833 GBP/mo

About the Company

Security at Apollo exists to maintain the trust of our frontier AI lab partners and enable our research mission.

About the Job

We're looking for a Head of Security to own security at Apollo Research from end to end. You'll be the first dedicated security hire at Apollo. This role sits within the engineering team and reports directly to the CEO.

Role & Responsibilities

  • ● Build and own Apollo's security programme, own the security roadmap, conduct risk assessments, and evolve the programme as the org grows.
  • ● Maintain the trust of our frontier AI lab partners and become the primary security point of contact for partner security teams.
  • ● Set security direction for engineering, define security principles and AppSec strategy which the engineering team implements, and build paved roads that make the secure path easy for engineers.
  • ● Define how Apollo uses AI tools, agents, and integrations, decide what's approved, what data can go where, and how new tools get vetted.
  • ● Own the security tooling stack and automate security operations, select, implement, and manage security controls including EDR/MDR, endpoint management, email protection, and identity management.
  • ● Drive compliance and certification, lead certification efforts as needed to meet partner requirements, and automate where needed.
  • ● Own IT administration across the organisation, manage Google Workspace, define access policies, and build secure onboarding and offboarding processes.

Requirements

  • ● You have an engineering mindset and treat security operations and GRC as engineering problems.
  • ● You are pragmatic and understand that security exists to enable Apollo's mission and maintain partner trust.
  • ● You have leadership capabilities and are capable of building out our security programme from scratch.
  • ● You are hands-on and willing and able to drive implementation yourself.
  • ● You make good-enough decisions quickly and execute fast once a decision is made.
  • ● You have adaptability to new developments and a strong base of knowledge that enables you to make decisions under uncertainty as AI tooling and the threat landscape evolve.
  • ● You have stakeholder credibility, non-security people trust you internally, and you can credibly represent Apollo to lab partner security teams externally.