Head of Detection and Response

What you'll do

• Set the global detection and response strategy, roadmap, investment plan, and governance; lead a multi-region organization.
• Scale cloud-native detection engineering and operate incident response, including 24x7 coverage, automation, and threat hunting.
• Develop security data and AI capabilities, align with security and risk partners, and represent the function in executive, customer, and audit forums.

What they ask for

• 15+ years in security, including 7+ years leading multi-region detection/response or SOC/IR organizations at large-scale cloud-first companies.
• Proven end-to-end leadership of high-severity incidents, including executive and customer communications and regulatory readiness.
• Depth in cloud platforms, identity, modern endpoint/EDR, data security, CI/CD security, and SaaS telemetry integration; experience deploying SOAR automation and improving MTTD/MTTR.
• Experience leading intel fusion or threat hunting teams; familiarity with privacy-by-design, secure AI usage, and ML/LLM evaluation frameworks; board-level communication experience.

Pay

$294,300 - $384,225 USD base salary; $265,500 - $346,625 USD base salary; $244,269 - $318,907 USD base salary

Tools

SOAR, ATT&CK, diamond model, ML, LLM, CI/CD, EDR, SaaS

AI focus

Leverage ML/LLM-assisted detections, triage, and summarization; define evaluation frameworks and human-in-the-loop controls, with privacy-aware and secure AI use.