Job Title: Security Research ManagerLocation: Boston, MA or Raleigh, NC (Onsite)About the Role:The Product Research team within Bitsight's Security Research department focuses on technology and methodology development for security telemetry collection, processing, and analysis. The team is part of Bitsight's broader product development organization and will be involved with investigating and prototyping new potential product capabilities. This manager position will be tasked with leading a multifaceted security research team that addresses a broad range of Bitsight's strategic technical challenges. This role will be ideally suited to a technical leader with a mix of security and data science skills who is eager to lead a research team and influence the future technology investments of the Bitsight platform.
Key Responsibilities:- Establish team priorities for research and development of new data collection prototypes, big-data analytic pipelines, and security exposure assessment methodologies
- Collaborate with the product and engineering organizations to align capability development roadmaps and complete technology transfer of research prototypes into production environments
- Decompose long-term strategic business challenges into technical research plans
- Recruit, train, and develop a team of security researchers
- Clearly articulate research findings to business stakeholders and provide defensible recommendations on business processes, priorities, and investments
- Develop, drive, and own processes for quality assurance of team research and data
- Ideate product features and enhancements based on the latest security trends and capabilities
- Identify, establish, and maintain data partnership opportunities in collaboration with Data Operations through scouting and assessment of product value in third party data sources
- Support marketing activities and customer engagements by promoting key findings and capabilities and explaining product data and ratings concepts
Required Qualifications:- Strong technical background with expertise in networking and information security
- Strong communication and analytical skills, including the ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems
- Adept at applying AI tooling to accelerate projects and workflows while understanding and mitigating the risks they introduce
- Experience leading research initiatives and teams to build security products
- Proficient in writing and reviewing code to facilitate prototype development
- Proven track record in security data analysis and presentation
- Ability to conduct, interpret, and explain statistical experiments to quantify research value propositions
- Education: B.S/M.S in Computer Science or similar field or commensurate experience.
About BitSightBased in Boston, MA, Raleigh, NC and Lisbon, PT, the company is the pioneer and leader in the security ratings market delivering ratings solutions for third-party risk management, benchmarking, and cyber insurance.
Additional Information for US-Based Applicants:Bitsight is committed to full pay transparency in accordance with applicable state and local pay transparency laws. The compensation elements outlined below represent a good-faith estimate effective as of the date of this posting and may be modified in the future. The total rewards package for this position includes:
160,000.00 - 240,000.00 USD AnnualBonus - Corporate Bonus Plan, 15% AnnualStock - New Hire Stock Plan, 1,489 Annual
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