Senior Manager, Artificial Intelligence

Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Artificial Intelligence to be part of making that happen.

About The Role

In this role, you advance that mission by planning and directing the AI development that turns massive volumes of security signal into faster detection and response. This work spans the full range of machine learning and AI solutions, from classical models to fine-tuned language models and agentic systems. You ensure AI initiatives, processes, and deliverables conform to the organization’s established policies, quality standards, and objectives. You also work closely with R&D Leadership, Product Management, and the Security Services (S2) organization to build scalable, production-grade AI that customers and analysts need, delivered on time.

Senior Managers carry a large scope of leadership and may have multiple managers and/or technical leads reporting to them. The right leader brings specialized subject-matter expertise in the AI domain along with a can-do attitude. They are comfortable working across functional boundaries, partnering with data scientists, platform engineers, threat researchers, and security operations analysts to push complex, ambiguous initiatives over the line.

Responsibilities

Generates and manages the day-to-day work for their team and is accountable for its outcomes. Partners with the Product team to define and deliver the 6-month AI roadmap and contributes to longer-term planning and strategy with R&D Leadership. Provides direction and clarity, removes obstacles, and leads teams that deliver high-quality, innovative AI solutions alongside architects, developers, data scientists, product managers, CSEs, and support people.

• Set the direction for applying the right approach to each problem, from classical ML (e.g., clustering, random forests) to deep learning, fine-tuned language models, and agentic systems, in partnership with your technical peers and team members, translating complex security use cases into production-ready initiatives.

• Partner with Architects and other leadership on the company’s technical roadmap, championing secure, observable, and scalable AI systems in cloud-native environments.

• Oversee the design, training, deployment, and ongoing quality measurement of models and agentic experiences.

• Drive continuous improvement in engineering and MLOps processes.  Uphold secure coding and acceptable-use standards across the full development life cycle.

• Drive cross-functional initiatives with platform, product, and security operations teams to integrate AI into production, and see that work through to completion.

• Mentor each team member and help them grow their technical and leadership skills, establishing career development plans and achievable goals. Build collaborative relationships across teams and stakeholders.

• Lead recruitment for their team and be a key contributor to hiring and recruitment strategy for both full-time and co-op roles.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Four years of experience in software, AI/ML, or data science roles (or a Master’s degree plus two years), including experience leading technical teams or projects.

• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and delivering AI/ML or Generative AI systems to production at scale.

• Strong expertise in the production delivery of Generative AI or machine learning systems, including training, tuning, and ongoing quality measurement and evaluation (e.g., LLM-as-judge).

• Experience with agentic frameworks (e.g., AgentCore, LangChain, LangGraph) and LLM integration.

• Experience architecting MLOps processes and tooling for moving models from training to production, including drift monitoring and continuous learning in high-volume pipelines.

• Familiarity with cloud-native data services (AWS preferred) and data engineering tools (e.g., Spark, Flink, Kafka, Databricks), and with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and DevSecOps principles.

• Exposure to cybersecurity concepts such as threat detection, MITRE ATT&CK, telemetry, and adversarial behavior modeling.

• A can-do attitude, tenacity, and proven ability to work across cross-functional boundaries to drive ambiguous, high-impact initiatives to completion.

On-Camera Policy
To support a fair, transparent, and engaging interview experience, candidates interviewing remotely are expected to be on camera during all video interviews. Being on camera fosters authentic connection, improves communication, and allows for full engagement from both candidates and interviewers. We understand that technical, bandwidth, or location-related challenges may occasionally prevent video use. If this applies, candidates are required to notify us in advance so we can explore appropriate accommodations.

Security Requirements 

• Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with AWN’s Information Security policies, standards, processes, and controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of AWN business information (in accordance with our employee handbook and corporate policies). 

• Background checks are required for this position.  

• This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).  Please note that, if applicable, an offer for employment will be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export control laws and regulations. 

 

The base salary range for this job family is 118,700 to 280,000 USD annually. This range reflects the base pay the company reasonably expects to offer for this position, aligned to the broader job family base pay structure. Actual base pay may vary based on skills, experience, and location, including job family level. In addition to base pay, Arctic Wolf offers variable incentive compensation, new hire equity grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.