AI Security Discovery & Detection Manager

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2026-11-10T16:18:19+00:00

183073

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AI Security Discovery and Detection Manager

Location(s) Malvern, PA, US

Work model Hybrid

Date posted November 10, 2026

Job requisition 183073

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As the Manager of AI Security Discovery and Detection, you will lead the strategy and operations required to identify and continuously monitor AI systems and artifacts across Vanguard's technology environment. You will build and mature detection capabilities across endpoint, network, cloud, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms, giving Vanguard visibility into approved and unapproved AI while identifying abnormal or high-risk activity involving authorized systems.

Job description

Benefits and rewards

Responsibilities

• Set the strategy and roadmap for AI Security Posture Management (AISPM) Discovery and Detection, including priorities, operating model, and measures of success.
• Lead enterprise-wide discovery and inventory of AI systems and usage across endpoints, network, cloud platforms, and SaaS applications including both approved and unapproved AI.
• Build and mature AI-focused detection capabilities that identify Shadow AI, policy violations, suspicious activity, and abnormal behavior within approved AI systems.
• Oversee the detection lifecycle, including use-case development, prioritization, testing, deployment, tuning, coverage assessment, and integration with security monitoring and incident-response processes.
• Partner across security, technology, data, risk, legal, privacy, and business teams to translate AI risks and policies into actionable discovery and monitoring controls and requirements.
• Define meaningful metrics and reporting that communicate AI discovery coverage, inventory completeness, detection effectiveness, unauthorized usage trends, control gaps, and risk reduction.
• Recruit, lead, and develop a high-performing team, ensuring the AI Security team is a sought-after location for talented technical talent to continue learning and evolving their craft.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Cyber Security, with at least 2 years specifically focused on Cloud Security, Data Security, or AI/ML Security

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

• Preferred certifications: CISSP, CCSP

• Special Factors

• Sponsorship

• Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

• About Vanguard

• At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

• To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

• Future of Work

• During the pandemic, we transitioned to a work from home model for the majority of our crew and we continue to interview, hire, and on-board future crew remotely.

• As we have developed the path forward, we have taken a thoughtful approach that both maximizes the advantages of working remotely and the many benefits of coming together and collaborating in a shared workspace. We believe that in-person interactions among our crew are important for preserving our unique culture and advantageous for the personal development of our crew.

• When our Crew return to the office, many will work in our hybrid model. A smaller proportion of our crew will operate in the Work from Home work model (for example, field sales crew); or in the Work from Office model (for example, portfolio managers).

• The working model that your role falls into will be communicated to you in the interview process – please do ask if you are unsure. We encourage you to make the decision regarding your job interview and offer knowing which model your role will fall into. We will test and learn as our ways of working evolve and will continue to evaluate working models along the way.

Salary Range:

• $100,000.00 – $180,000.00

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• Our commitment to you

• Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success—at work and in life—with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life.

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• We're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs.

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• Our commitment to equal employment opportunity

• Vanguard is an equal opportunity employer. Vanguard is committed to providing all crew members a working environment that is free from discrimination, prejudice and bias. Through this Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy, Vanguard reaffirms its commitment to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and crew members without regard to race, color, national origin or ancestry, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, veteran or military status. In addition, Vanguard prohibits discrimination based on genetic information, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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