Manager, Product Research

Bitsight

3d•$160,000 - $200,000•Remote

About The Position

The Product Research team within Bitsight’s Security Research department focuses on technology and methodology development for risk signal 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 building out 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.

Requirements

Strong technical background with expertise in networking and information security
Strong communication and analytical skills, including the ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems
Experience leading research initiatives and teams
Proficient in standard scripting languages
Proven track record in security data analysis and presentation
Ability to conduct statistical experiments and develop rapid prototypes
B.S/M.S in Computer Science or similar field or commensurate experience.

Responsibilities

Establish team priorities for research and development of new data collection prototypes, big-data analytic pipelines, and risk 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 an international team of security researchers of diverse backgrounds and skill sets
Clearly articulate research findings to business stakeholders and provide quantitative 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