Harvey
Director of Detection and Response
$280K–$385K
New York · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
About the job
Leads Harvey’s Detection and Response function, strategy, and technical direction to detect threats, manage incidents, and strengthen defenses across production and corporate environments.
What you'll do
- Build and lead the team, including hiring, development, roadmap, staffing, and investment decisions.
- Lead major incident response and crisis readiness, including investigations, containment, recovery, communications, playbooks, and 24/7 coverage for critical threats.
- Develop detection engineering, telemetry, forensic tooling, and response automation; prioritize threats and use incident metrics to improve defenses.
What they ask for
- Experience building and leading Detection and Response, incident response, or security engineering teams in a technology company with complex production systems.
- Deep incident response experience, including leading investigations and making containment decisions during serious security events.
- Strong technical foundations in cloud infrastructure, operating systems, networking, identity, and attacker tradecraft, with depth in detection engineering, threat hunting, or digital forensics.
- Experience building detection platforms, investigation tools, or response automation; able to evaluate architecture and code and guide senior engineers.
Nice to have
- Experience protecting enterprise SaaS, sensitive customer data, or AI/ML environments.
- Experience investigating insider threats, partnering on privileged-access governance, or leading response under regulatory and public scrutiny.
Pay
$280,000 - $385,000 USD (base salary); $280K – $385K (base salary)
AI focus
Evaluate AI-assisted investigation with measurable quality and appropriate human oversight; address threats involving AI-enabled workflows.
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