Cyber leadership profile

PubMatic

PubMatic provides a cloud-based programmatic advertising platform for publishers and advertisers to manage and automate digital media transactions. The company operates a global infrastructure that processes trillions of ad auctions monthly across various formats, including mobile, video, and connected TV. A security leader would oversee high-volume real-time data processing environments and complex supply chain security within the digital advertising ecosystem.

Industry: Software
Headcount: 501-1,000 employees
Headquarters: Redwood City, CA
Ownership: Public company · NASDAQ:PUBM
Revenue: $250M – $1B
Funding: Publicly traded
Founded: 2006
Investors: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, August Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Helion Venture Partners

Cyber hiring activity

Open leadership roles

1 at Director level or above

Opened, last 12 months

1 Director+

Prior 12 months

Hiring velocity

Low

Median Opportunity Score 86

1 leadership role observed in the last 12 months. CLI has no coverage of the prior year for this employer. Counts reflect roles PubMatic posted that CLI has observed and published; they are not a complete record of the employer's hiring.

Security leadership

Mukul Kumar

Co-Founder & President, EngineeringHiring influence: ModerateStated publiclyHigh confidence

As Co-Founder and President of Engineering, he likely serves as the executive sponsor for security initiatives.

Public profile Source

Praveen Gautam

Senior Director, Global Information Security and CISOHiring influence: HighInferredHigh confidence

Leads the global security function and is the primary stakeholder for security hires.

Public profile Source

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Approach

Open any live role below for its full approach path: the likely hiring owner, the decision circle around them, and the strongest route in.

Security organization

Estimated team size10–25 peopleModerate confidence

The security function reports into the Engineering organization, led by the President of Engineering. The CISO oversees a global team distributed across the US and India.

Major functions

Application SecurityCompliance and GovernanceInfrastructure SecurityPrivacy and Data Protection

Maturity indicators

ISO 27001 Certification
SOC 2 Type II Compliance
Public Bug Bounty Program

PubMatic maintains high compliance standards necessary for the ad-tech industry, focusing heavily on data privacy and programmatic transparency.

Organization figures are CLI estimates, not disclosures. High confidence

Technologies observed

KubernetesInfrastructure1 posting

Extracted verbatim from this employer's security postings. Absence from this list does not mean the tool is not in use.

Open cyber leadership roles

Director, Information Security

PubMatic · Software

Redwood City, CA · Hybrid

$210,000 – $250,000 base, disclosed

VP-equivalent

CLI Career Level

Opportunity

Strong · Last verified 1 hour ago

Cyber Leadership Index compiles these dossiers from public sources and the employer's own postings. Inferred figures are labelled with a confidence level; anything CLI cannot establish is shown as unknown rather than estimated. Last refreshed September 21, 2026.