About LILT

AI is changing how the world communicates and LILT is leading that transformation.

Were on a mission to make the worlds information accessible to everyone regardless of the language they speak. We use cutting-edge AI machine translation and human-in-the-loop expertise to translate content faster more accurately and more cost-effectively without compromising on brand voice or quality.

At LILT we empower our teammates with leading tools global collaboration and growth opportunities to do their best work. Our company virtuesWork together win together; Find a way or make one; Quicker than they expect; Quality is Job 1guide everything we do. We are trusted by Intel Corporation Canva the United States Department of Defense the United States Air Force ASICS and hundreds of global Enterprises. Backed by Sequoia Intel Capital and Redpoint were building a category-defining company in a $50B global translation market being redefined by AI.

Role Overview

As LILTs first Head of Security youll build and lead our information security function from the ground up. This is a high-impact executive role responsible for setting our security vision driving compliance with global and federal standards and serving as the hub for all internal and external security matters. You will partner with Engineering Legal Go-to-Market People IT and others teams to ensure our platform and operations meet the highest levels of security assurance while enabling rapid enterprise growth.

This role is based in Washington D.C with a hybrid schedule (MonWed in-office).

What Youll Do

• Own the company-wide security strategy roadmap and execution

• Lead initiatives to achieve and maintain key certifications and regulatory compliance including:

  • HITRUST

  • ISO 27001

  • Federal regimes such as CMMC Level 2 NIST 800-171 and FedRAMP Moderate

  • Emerging AI compliance regimes and standards

• Serve as the central point of contact for all security-related inquiries including:

  • Customer security questionnaires and enterprise procurement processes

  • Vendor risk assessments and ongoing monitoring

  • Internal audits tabletop exercises and risk management activities

• Partner with Engineering on secure architecture incident response vulnerability management and encryption/identity controls

• Collaborate closely with Legal People Finance and Operations on risk management compliance contracts and enterprise governance

• Proficiency with common industry tools such as Drata/Vanta Datadog Wiz Google Cloud Platform etc.

• Manage security operations under tight budgets and aggressive timelines

• Represent LILT externally with customers regulators and auditors as our senior-most security leader

• Drive company-wide security awareness and training initiatives

About You

• Experienced security leader with 7 years in information security including at least 1 year in senior management or a CISO-equivalent role

• Demonstrated success in achieving certifications such as ISO 27001 HITRUST or FedRAMP

• Strong working knowledge of federal and enterprise compliance regimes (CMMC NIST FedRAMP HIPAA GDPR)

• Background working with regulated industries such as government healthcare or financial services

• Skilled at collaborating across Engineering Legal Go-to-Market People Finance and Operations to align security with business needs

• Comfortable managing budgets vendor relationships and certification timelines in resource-constrained environments

• Exceptional communicator who can translate technical risks for executives customers and regulators

• Mission-driven leader excited to build a modern scalable enterprise-grade security program

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• CISSP CISM CCISO or related certifications

• Prior experience as the first CISO in a scaling SaaS or AI/ML company

• Legal (JD) or engineering/technical background

Our Story

Our founders Spence and John met at Google working on Google Translate. As researchers at Stanford and Berkeley they both worked on language technology to make information accessible to everyone. While together at Google they were amazed to learn that Google Translate wasnt used for enterprise products and services inside the quality just wasnt there. So they set out to build something better. LILT was born.

LILT has been a machine learning company since its founding in 2015. At the time machine translation didnt meet the quality standard for enterprise translations so LILT assembled a cutting-edge research team tasked with closing that gap. While meeting customer demand for translation services LILT has prioritized investments in Large Language Models human-in-the-loop systems and now agentic AI.

With AI innovation accelerating and enterprise demand growing the next phase of LILTs journey is just beginning.

Our Tech

What sets our platform apart:

• Brand-aware AI that learns your voice tone and terminology to ensure every translation is accurate and consistent

• Agentic AI workflows that automate the entire translation process from content ingestion to quality review to publishing

• 100 native integrations with systems like Adobe Experience Manager Webflow Salesforce GitHub and Google Drive to simplify content translation

• Human-in-the-loop reviews via our global network of professional linguists for high-impact content that requires expert review

LILT in the News

• Featured in The Software Reports Top 100 Software Companies!

• LILT makes it onto the Inc. 5000 List.

• LILTs continues to be an intellectual powerhouse holding numerous patents that help power the most efficient and sophisticated AI and language models in the industry.

• Check out all our news on our website.

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