Senior Manager, Adversary Research
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Senior Manager leading Arctic Wolf’s adversary research and threat intelligence team. Directing cyber threat investigations, detection development, and security research for customers.
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 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
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