Senior Manager, Adversary Research

Arctic Wolf • New York, NY

14d • $104,500 - $259,000

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Adversary Research leads a team responsible for discovering, tracking, and explaining sophisticated cyber threats. The role defines the team’s research strategy, directs complex technical investigations, and ensures findings become actionable intelligence, durable detections, stronger security outcomes, and authoritative reporting. The position reports to the Director, Adversary Operations.

The successful candidate combines people leadership with deep experience in adversary research and cyber threat intelligence. They guide investigations across endpoint, network, malware, infrastructure, and open-source data, and communicate complex findings to technical teams, executives, customers, and the broader security community.

Requirements

• 12 or more years of experience in cyber threat intelligence, adversary research, threat hunting, malware analysis, incident response, or a related discipline.
• Three or more years of experience leading people, research programs, or multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Demonstrated success building or maturing a threat intelligence, adversary research, or related security function.
• Deep understanding of the intelligence lifecycle, intelligence requirements, collection management, all-source analysis, and structured analytic techniques.
• Strong knowledge of nation-state, cybercriminal, ransomware, initial-access, and malware ecosystems.
• Experience analyzing endpoint, network, cloud, identity, infrastructure, malware, and open-source data.
• Experience using frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and the Diamond Model to analyze adversary behavior and intrusion activity.
• Experience translating threat intelligence into detections, hunting strategies, incident response actions, defensive controls, or product improvements.
• Familiarity with YARA, Sigma, SIEM, EDR, SOAR, threat intelligence platforms, and large-scale data-analysis environments.
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to technical and executive audiences.
• Track record of authoring, reviewing, and guiding publication-quality threat research, strengthening analytic rigor, technical accuracy, and narrative clarity.
• Sound judgment when handling sensitive intelligence, uncertain attribution, customer information, and high-impact security events.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing senior researchers across malware analysis, threat hunting, intelligence analysis, or detection engineering.
• Working knowledge of reverse-engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, or x64dbg.
• Experience using Python, SQL, or similar languages for research automation and large-scale analysis.
• Experience building actor-tracking programs, campaign repositories, intelligence requirements, or research metrics.
• Experience supporting high-severity incident response or proactive threat-hunting engagements.
• Experience publishing original security research or presenting at industry conferences.
• Knowledge of the geopolitical factors influencing state-directed cyber operations.

Responsibilities

• Define the strategy, priorities, and operating model for the Adversary Research team.
• Lead, coach, and develop threat researchers, intelligence analysts, and technical specialists.
• Direct research into nation-state groups, cybercriminal organizations, ransomware operations, malware campaigns, and emerging adversary tradecraft.
• Oversee proactive hunting across large-scale telemetry to identify previously unknown campaigns, infrastructure, malware, and behavioral patterns.
• Establish standards for actor tracking, campaign clustering, attribution, analytical confidence, and intelligence production.
• Guide advanced malware analysis, threat hunting, infrastructure tracking, and development of YARA, Sigma, behavioral detections, and research tooling.
• Partner with threat hunting, incident response, detection engineering, security operations, product, and vulnerability research teams to operationalize findings.
• Direct production of tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence for technical, executive, customer, and public audiences.
• Brief senior leaders and customers on emerging threats, adversary activity, and research outcomes.
• Build relationships with industry peers, government partners, intelligence-sharing communities, and external researchers.

Benefits

• Equity for all employees.
• Flexible time off and paid volunteer days.
• 401(k) contribution and matching.
• Training and career development programs.
• Comprehensive private benefits plan including medical, mental health, dental, disability, life and AD&D, and value-added services.
• Employee Assistance Program with mental health services.
• Fertility support and paid parental leave.
• Variable incentive compensation and new hire equity grants.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed