Manager, Product Research

Responsibilities

• Manage a cohesive, high-functioning team that thrives in an environment of trust, respect, and inclusion.
• Work with Product leadership, the Security Operations Center, Engineering, and others to develop the Huntress Security Platform threat operations roadmap.
• Provide technical and managerial leadership to direct reports, specializing in one or more security disciplines (offensive security, vulnerability management, security operations, data science, threat intelligence, etc.).
• Proactively identify risks, blockers, and operational gaps; bring solutions to leadership.
• Ensure team members fully understand the goals and objectives of Huntress’ mission and how their work fits into the bigger picture.
• Support the professional development of researchers in the organization through coaching, mentorship, and performance management.
• Model strong AI fluency in their own work and set expectations for effective, responsible AI use across the team.
• Build repeatable team workflows and coach others to use AI in ways that improve research quality, speed, and business outcomes.
• Use AI to redesign and scale research workflows, establish quality and risk standards, and measure whether adoption is producing meaningful functional impact.

Requirements

• Experience leading cybersecurity teams with diverse skills and backgrounds, including at least one area of security research and development.
• Experience managing a capable cybersecurity team, which will attract and hire talent and grow the team as rapidly as necessary.
• Operates independently, makes decisions, takes action, and is accountable for outcomes.
• Effective communicator of highly technical concepts within their specialty.
• Motivated technologist with responsibility for cybersecurity.
• Uses AI personally, but is also expected to make it repeatable across the team/function through workflow design, coaching, and outcome measurement.

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with product management, incident response, host-based threat hunting, malware analysis, configuration management, and antivirus technologies.
• Competitive candidates have experience staffing, motivating, and leading diverse cybersecurity teams who are offense-minded and passionate about using under-leveraged OS functionality to prevent and detect new hacker tradecraft.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base compensation: $195,000-$225,000 with bonus and equity.
• 100% remote work environment.
• Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans.
• 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution.
• Life and Disability insurance plans.
• Stock options for all full-time employees.
• One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office.
• Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance.
• $75 USD/month digital reimbursement.
• Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth.