Security Research Manager

BitSight Technologies • Boston, MA

18d • $160,000 - $200,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Security Research Manager leads a multifaceted team in Bitsight’s Security Research department. The Product Research team develops technology and methodologies for collecting, processing, and analyzing security telemetry, and contributes to Bitsight’s broader product development organization by investigating and prototyping potential product capabilities. The role suits a technical leader with security and data science expertise who can guide research and influence future technology investments in the Bitsight platform.

The manager establishes research priorities, translates strategic business challenges into technical plans, and works with product and engineering teams to move research prototypes into production. The role also involves developing researchers, communicating findings and recommendations to business stakeholders, ensuring the quality of research and data, exploring product enhancements and third-party data partnerships, and supporting marketing and customer engagements.

The position is based onsite in Boston, Massachusetts, or Raleigh, North Carolina. The anticipated US annual base salary range is $160,000–$200,000. Bitsight describes itself as an equal opportunity employer and states that it offers best-in-class benefits, without listing specific benefits in this posting.

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 on business processes, priorities, and investments.
• Develop, drive, and own quality-assurance processes for team research and data.
• Generate ideas for product features and enhancements based on current security trends and capabilities.
• Identify, establish, and maintain data partnership opportunities with Data Operations by assessing the product value of third-party data sources.
• Support marketing activities and customer engagements by promoting findings and capabilities and explaining product data and ratings concepts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager