Senior Manager, Adversary Research

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $104.5k - $259k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Manager

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Arctic Wolf

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

The cybersecurity industry has an effectiveness problem. Every year new technologies, vendors, and solutions emerge, and yet despite this constant innovation we continue to see high profile breaches in the headlines. All organizations know they need better security, but the dizzying array of options leave resource-constrained IT and security leaders wondering how to proceed. At Arctic Wolf, our mission is to End Cyber Risk through effective security operations. To achieve this, we believe that organizations must do three key things:

📋 Description

• 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 unknown campaigns, infrastructure, malware, and behavioral patterns • Establish standards for actor tracking, campaign clustering, attribution, analytical confidence, and intelligence production • Guide 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 • Direct tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence production 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 • Report to the Director, Adversary Operations

🎯 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 MITRE ATT&CK and the Diamond Model • 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 presenting to technical and executive audiences • Proven track record of authoring, reviewing, and guiding publication-quality threat research • Sound judgment when handling sensitive intelligence, uncertain attribution, customer information, and high-impact security events • Preferred: experience managing senior researchers; reverse-engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, or x64dbg; Python, SQL, or similar languages; actor-tracking programs, campaign repositories, intelligence requirements, or research metrics; high-severity incident response or proactive threat-hunting engagements; publishing original security research or presenting at industry conferences; knowledge of geopolitical factors influencing state-directed cyber operations

🏖️ 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 • Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with mental health services • Fertility support and paid parental leave • Variable incentive compensation • New hire equity grants