Security Research Manager
About The Position
The Product Research team within Bitsight’s Security Research department develops technology and methodologies for collecting, processing, and analyzing security telemetry. As part of the broader product development organization, the team investigates and prototypes potential product capabilities. The Security Research Manager leads a multifaceted security research team addressing strategic technical challenges and helps influence future technology investments for the Bitsight platform. The role is suited to a technical leader with security and data science skills. The position is based onsite in Boston, Massachusetts, or Raleigh, North Carolina. The manager establishes research priorities, works with product and engineering teams to move prototypes into production, develops researchers, and communicates findings and recommendations to business stakeholders. The role also supports product ideation, data partnerships, marketing activities, and customer engagements. Bitsight is a cyber risk management company and security ratings market pioneer. Its solutions address enterprise security performance, digital supply chains, cyber insurance, and data analysis. The company reports more than 3,500 customers and more than 600 teammates across Boston, Raleigh, New York, Lisbon, Singapore, and remote locations.
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.
- Ability to apply AI tooling to accelerate projects and workflows while understanding and mitigating the risks it introduces.
- Experience leading research initiatives and teams to build security products.
- Proficiency 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.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a similar field, or commensurate experience.
Responsibilities
- Establish team priorities for research and development of data collection prototypes, big-data analytic pipelines, and security exposure assessment methodologies.
- Collaborate with product and engineering organizations to align capability development roadmaps and transfer research prototypes into production environments.
- Break down long-term strategic business challenges into technical research plans.
- Recruit, train, and develop a team of security researchers.
- Communicate research findings to business stakeholders and provide defensible recommendations about business processes, priorities, and investments.
- Develop, drive, and own quality assurance processes for team research and data.
- Ideate product features and enhancements based on current security trends and capabilities.
- Identify, establish, and maintain data partnership opportunities with Data Operations by scouting and assessing the product value of third-party data sources.
- Support marketing activities and customer engagements by promoting key findings and capabilities and explaining product data and ratings concepts.
Benefits
- Annual corporate bonus plan: 15%.
- New-hire stock plan: 1,489 annual stock, as stated in the posting.
- Bitsight offers benefits and describes them as best in class.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
