Vice President, Threat Detection & Response
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HuntressCybersecurity
Location: Remote USFull-TimeVp
Salary$250,000 to $320,000 base plus bonus and equity
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of experience leading modern security operations, threat detection and response, incident response, threat hunting, or closely related cybersecurity functions.
- Required Skills
- CybersecurityStrategyChange Management
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience leading modern security operations, threat detection and response, incident response, threat hunting, or closely related cybersecurity functions.
- 5+ years of experience leading through other managers and directors across a multi-functional business unit.
- Proven success in creating and executing a strategic plan for a major security function with full accountability for organizational design and resource decisions.
- Strong business judgment and intellectual honesty connecting security metrics to customer retention, margin, and company growth.
- Clear, technical point of view on where automation scales security operations versus where human judgment must remain primary.
- Demonstrated ability to build leadership depth and cultivate a healthy, accountable team culture.
- Ability to communicate complex technical risks in plain language to board members and executive teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead the entire TD&R function across all sub-departments, taking deep personal ownership of strategic bets, organizational structure, and measurable business outcomes.
- Own the long-term TD&R system design, empowering directors and managers to run with operational clarity.
- Partner with Product and Innovation teams to execute a credible agentic SOC roadmap.
- Drive measurable threat detection and response outcomes, including mean time to detect and respond (MTTx), detection coverage, and quality.
- Lead change management and cultural shifts required for the agentic SOC transition, building analyst trust through transparency.
- Identify systemic operational bottlenecks and tool friction, building solutions proactively.
- Build a resilient leadership bench of senior directors and managers to navigate high-pressure incidents.
- Prioritize fast innovation and high-impact security wins based on frontline signals.
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