Vice President of Threat Detection & Response, Huntress
$250-320k
plus bonus and equity
Managed cyber security platform
Open for applications
Managed cyber security platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$250-320k
plus bonus and equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To shatter the barriers to enterprise-level security.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience leading modern security operations, threat detection and response, incident response, threat hunting, or closely related cybersecurity functions
- 5+ years of experience leading through other managers and directors across a multi-functional business unit, not just managing a single execution workflow
- Proven success in creating and executing a strategic plan for a major security function with full accountability for organizational design and resource decisions
- Strong business judgment and an intellectual honesty that connects security metrics to customer retention, margin, and company growth
- A clear, technical point of view on where automation scales security operations and where human judgment must remain primary
- Demonstrated ability to build leadership depth, cultivate a healthy and accountable team culture, and communicate complex technical risks in plain language to board members and executive teams
What the job involves
- Reports to: Chief Security Officer
- Threat Detection & Response (TD&R) is the operational core of the Huntress customer value proposition. This business unit spans our Security Operations Center (SOC) / Security Analysis, Security Triage, Tactical Response, Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting (DE&TH), and Adversary Tactics teams
- As the executive leader for this entire ecosystem, you will give the team a clear multi-year direction, strategy, and vision
- You are not here to inherit a pre-made plan or just manage daily execution. You are expected to show up with an outcome-obsessed approach to build consensus, map out the strategy, and execute through your leadership bench
- Your discretionary time will be devoted to organizational design, culture, and alignment across the company
- You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Innovation, Data, Support, and Sales to evolve our SOC into an agentic operating model
- Repetitive, deterministic investigations will move to automated workflows, freeing your analysts to focus their brilliant human security judgment on complex intrusion analysis
- Success means balancing operator rigor, strategic judgment, and organization-building discipline to protect all businesses
- Lead the entire TD&R function across all sub-departments, taking deep personal ownership of strategic bets, organizational structure, and measurable business outcomes. (Outcome-Obsessed)
- Own the long-term TD&R system design rather than day-to-day queue management, empowering your directors and managers to run with absolute clarity
- Partner with Product and Innovation teams to execute a credible agentic SOC roadmap, proving that you give more than you take by creating extreme value and building deep trust across internal teams. (Give More Than We Take)
- Drive measurable threat detection and response outcomes, including mean time to detect and respond (MTTx), detection coverage, quality, and operational consistency
- Lead the major change management and cultural shifts required for the agentic SOC transition, using open candor to address dissent publicly, eliminate toxicity, and build analyst trust through transparency. (Candor)
- Spot systemic operational bottlenecks, tool friction, or analyst burnout risks, and build the solutions yourself without waiting for a formal invitation or permission. (Give a $h*t)
- Build a resilient, unshakeable leadership bench of senior directors and managers who can navigate high-pressure incidents and operational chaos with a calm warrior spirit. (Warrior Spirit)
- Prioritize fast innovation and high-impact security wins, making decisions based on available frontline signals and iterating rapidly to stay ahead of evolving threat actors. (Perfect Imperfection)
Our take
In a world of increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats, many organizations lack the resources and expertise to defend themselves effectively. Huntress has stepped in to address this gap, delivering robust cybersecurity solutions to protect a wide range of businesses and institutions across the US business landscape.
The company offers a managed security platform, which third party resellers leverage to protect their clients from attacks. Launched in 2015, Huntress has grown well over the years, attracting plenty of investment and expanding its headcount into the hundreds.
More recently, Huntress has turned its eye to acquisitions and new product launches, as well as major international expansion. A considerable influx of funding will support these initiatives, as well as allow the company to maintain sales momentum by expanding its go-to-market efforts.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2024
$150m
SERIES D
May 2023
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $289.8m
Company benefits
- 100% Remote: We’ve been a remote team from day one – and we’ve got the tools, systems and processes to be successful outside of a corporate office or HQ.
- PTO & Other Leave: We offer 12 weeks of paid parental leave, along with vacation, sick time, bereavement leave, and floating holidays.
- Growth Opportunities: We’re committed to teammate development, both within and outside of Huntress – including education assistance programs like LifeLabs, hands-on training, coaching through BetterUp, and more.
- Stock Options: All full-time teammates receive stock options and benefit from the continued growth and success of the company.
- Digital Monthly Reimbursements: We offer a monthly digital reimbursement for your internet and phone – plus a new starter home office reimbursement.
- 401K Match: We offer a 5% contribution to your 401k – even if you’re not paying into it yourself.
- Health Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance, pet insurance, and other benefits you’d expect from a company that cares about its team members.
Company HQ
Columbia, MD
Leadership
Kyle Hanslovan
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Huntress in 2015, Kyle spent 9 years at the Air National Guard as a Cyber Warfare Operator.
Chris Bisnett
(Co-Founder & CTO)Chris is US Navy Veteran, serving for five years as a Vulnerability Analyst focused on the Department of Defense network. He then operated in a number of Senior Security Engineering roles after leaving the Navy.
John Ferrell
(Co-Founder)John spent 5 years as a Security Engineer and CNO Analyst over two spells at ManTech International, with 1 year as a Linux Systems Engineer at SPARTA in the interim. He was also a CNO Developer at StrategicIO before co-founding Huntress.
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