Threat Research Leader

We are seeking a hands-on Threat Research Leader to lead a team of senior threat researchers. You will set the team's research agenda, coach the researchers on it, and stay close enough to the technical work to guide direction credibly — a player-coach who leads through both judgment and craft.

You will define how the team tracks Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), emerging malware, and vulnerabilities, and ensure those outputs land in our products through tight collaboration with engineering and product. Equally important: you will lead the team into the AI era — building AI-native workflows into how the team triages, reverses, hunts, and publishes — so the team operates at a fundamentally higher leverage than a traditional research group.

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• Experience: 8+ years in cybersecurity research, including 2+ years managing or leading a research team. Demonstrated track record of growing senior ICs — promotions earned under your leadership, retention of strong performers, IC-to-manager transitions you've coached.

• Technical Foundation: Deep, hands-on background in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), Reverse Engineering, Incident Response (IR), or Vulnerability Research (previously operating at a Senior/Principal Researcher level). Must remain technical enough to guide research direction and review work credibly.

• AI-Era Mindset: Active user and advocate of AI tooling in security workflows. Opinions on where LLMs and agentic systems help vs. mislead in threat research. Hands-on experimentation expected — not just awareness.

• Strategic Thinking: Track record of setting research agendas that shipped into product, making explicit prioritization trade-offs, and anticipating threat trends ahead of the market. Comfortable defending a research direction with evidence and adjusting it when the evidence changes.

• Management & Communication: Proven cross-border, cross-timezone collaboration and stakeholder management. Ability to translate complex technical work into business context for executive leadership and cross-functional teams.

• Language Skills: Excellent proficiency in English, with the ability to seamlessly participate in and lead global technical decision-making meetings.

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