Blackbaud, Inc.

Senior Manager, Threat Detection and Response

Blackbaud, Inc. • $133K — $173K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
3 days ago
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of cybersecurity experience, focusing on threat detection and incident response.
  • 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical security teams.
  • Strong expertise in security platforms like SIEM, EDR/XDR, and cloud security tools.
  • Deep understanding of attacker tactics and detection engineering concepts.
  • Experience in building operational processes and metrics for cybersecurity.
  • Excellent communication skills for both technical and executive audiences.
  • Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and NIST.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the cyber threat detection and response function, managing teams of analysts and engineers.
  • Define the roadmap for threat detection and response process improvements.
  • Oversee development of high-fidelity detections across various telemetry sources.
  • Translate threat intelligence into actionable detection content using frameworks.
  • Direct incident response for major cybersecurity events, overseeing all stages of incident management.
  • Collaborate with various teams to enhance cybersecurity readiness and response efforts.
  • Establish and monitor key metrics to evaluate detection and response effectiveness.
  • Drive automation initiatives for improved investigation and response efficiency.
  • Maintain playbooks and reporting processes for incident management.
  • Support compliance and security program reviews related to threat detection.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Remote-flexible working environment
  • Wellness programs to support employee health
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Flexible paid time off policy
  • Generous parental leave
  • Donations for Doers philanthropy program
  • Pet insurance and legal identity protection
  • Tuition reimbursement for career development
Full Job Description
About the role:

We are seeking an experienced and strategic cybersecurity leader to serve as our Sr. Manager of Cyber Threat Detection and Response. This role is responsible for leading detection engineering, threat monitoring, incident response coordination, and continuous improvement of security operations capabilities across the enterprise. The ideal candidate brings strong people leadership, deep technical expertise, and a proven ability to translate threat intelligence and operational data into effective detection and response outcomes.

What you'll do:
  • Lead and develop the cyber threat detection and response function, including analysts, detection engineers, and incident responders.
  • Define and execute the roadmap for threat detection, alert tuning, threat hunting, and response process maturity.
  • Oversee MSSP and internal development and optimization of high-fidelity detections across SIEM, EDR, identity, cloud, email, and network telemetry sources.
  • Translate threat intelligence, adversary techniques, and incident learnings into actionable detection content mapped to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
  • Direct incident response activities for high-priority cybersecurity events, including triage, containment, investigation, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review.
  • Partner closely with security engineering, infrastructure, cloud, legal, HR, privacy, and business stakeholders to improve readiness and response coordination.
  • Establish and monitor metrics such as mean time to detect, mean time to respond, and control effectiveness.
  • Drive automation and orchestration initiatives that improve investigation speed, response consistency, and analyst efficiency.
  • Maintain and mature playbooks, runbooks, escalation procedures, and executive reporting processes.
  • Support audits, compliance activities, tabletop exercises, and security program reviews related to detection and response capabilities.

What we'll expect you to have:
  • 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with significant experience in threat detection, security operations, incident response, or threat hunting.
  • 5+ years of people leadership experience managing technical security teams in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong experience with security platforms such as SIEM, EDR/XDR, SOAR, email security, identity monitoring, and cloud security tooling.
  • Deep understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, as well as detection engineering concepts and incident response methodologies.
  • Experience building or maturing operational processes, dashboards, metrics, and cross-functional escalation models.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to brief both technical teams and executive stakeholders.
  • Working knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and standards such as NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, CIS Controls, and incident handling best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience leading security operations in cloud-first or hybrid enterprise environments.
  • Hands-on familiarity with detection-as-code, automation, and threat-informed defense practices.
  • Knowledge of digital forensics, malware triage, insider threat monitoring, or purple team collaboration.
  • Relevant certifications such as CISSP, GCIH, GCIA, GCED, CISM, or similar.
  • Experience in environments with complex audit and compliance requirements.


The starting base pay is $133,700.00 to $173,800.00. Blackbaud may pay more or less based on employee qualifications, market value, Company finances, and other operational considerations.

Benefits Include:
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Remote-flexible workforce
  • Wellness Programs
  • 401(k) program with employer match
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Generous Parental Leave
  • Donations for Doers
  • Pet insurance, legal and identity protection
  • Tuition reimbursement program

About Blackbaud, Inc.

Blackbaud is a cloud computing provider that serves the social good community—nonprofits, foundations, corporations, education institutions, healthcare organizations, religious organizations, and individual change agents. Its products focus on fundraising, website management, CRM, analytics, financial management, ticketing, and education administration. Blackbaud's flagship product is a fundraising SQL database software, Raiser's Edge. Revenue from the sale of Raiser's Edge and related services accounted for thirty percent of Blackbaud's total revenue in 2012. Other products and services include Blackbaud Enterprise CRM, Altru, Financial Edge, Education Edge, Blackbaud NetCommunity, eTapestry, Luminate Online, Luminate CRM, Friends Asking Friends. In addition, Blackbaud offers consultancy services to nonprofit organizations. Blackbaud was founded in 1981 by Anthony Bakker. The company is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina. It has regional offices in Austin, Texas; Plano, Texas; St. Paul, Minnesota; and Bedford, New Hampshire. Internationally, Blackbaud has offices in London, England; Sydney, Australia and Glasgow, Scotland. Michael Gianoni is Blackbaud's CEO.
Learn more about Blackbaud, Inc.
Size
3,600 employees
Market Cap
$3 billion
Industry
Information Technology
Net Income
$7.7 million
Founded
1981
5 Year Trend
+4.9%
Revenue
$913.2 million
NASDAQ
BLKB
* Ladders Estimates

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