Sr. Manager, Threat Research

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Corporate Overview

In today’s cyber threat landscape, protection starts with people. At Proofpoint, that simple truth fuels our passion for protecting users, the data they create, and the systems they rely on from a uniquely people-centric perspective.

And we are just as passionate about finding the right people to help us in that mission. When you join Proofpoint, you are helping to:

• Build and enhance our proven security platform
• Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud environment
• Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel
• Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

We are devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That is why we are a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

The Role

The Role As a Proofpoint Sr. Manager for Threat Research, you will lead a team of threat researchers tasked with leveraging Proofpoint threat data to serve our most important customers. This team is focused on finding and tracking financially-motivated threat actors inside and outside of Proofpoint’s threat data. Using a variety of research techniques, threat intelligence, and data sources, they produce valuable information to help protect and inform Proofpoint’s email and network detection products as well as our customers.

This person will manage the team of threat researchers responsible for this work. This person will have prior experience in leading a team who hunts for threat actors in vast amounts of data and creates threat intelligence deliverables based on those findings. This person understands a wide variety of areas including threat detection, malware research, data analysis, and host or network forensics.

This role presumes prior people management experience as a direct manager. This leader will be responsible for the hiring, training and professional development of talented threat analysts. This manager will lead the team to tackle the demands of the changing threat landscape

Your day-to-day

• Working with threat researchers, malware analysts, data scientists, and detection staff to stay ahead of financially-motivated threat actors
• Analyzing data to create intelligence documents for our customers
• Reviewing accuracy of deliverables created by threat intelligence teams
• Discover and report common and repeated problems to management and propose process and technical improvements
• Use of excellent analytical skills to work in a diverse team environment, exchanging ideas and data with developers, support, product managers, and customers

What you bring to the team

• Experience in managing an intelligence team focused on technical collection
• Ability to find and hire the best technical talent
• Background in security, especially around APT threat actors and malware families
• Knowledge of the overall threat landscape
• A passion for surfacing threats, understanding them and communicating them to internal teams and senior leadership
• Experience growing technical talent and developing professional growth strategies for highly technical personnel
• Skills with reporting and metrics tracking
• Familiarity with big data and scripting technologies
• Focus on how threat intelligence lends value to our customers and products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
• Bias for action and willingness to take risks
• Experience making things happen in a fast-paced dynamic environment
• 3+ Years of people management
• 2+ Leading a cyber security team focused on technical collection
   

Why Proofpoint 

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We are a customer-focused and driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products—and many exciting reasons to join our team. We believe in hiring the best, the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation.

We are a diverse, multinational company with opportunities in all functions, and leaders that welcome candidates from all walks of life. Apply today and explore your future #LifeAtPFPT.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable compensation and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package, including flexible time off, a comprehensive well-being program with two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year, plus a three-week Work from Anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

Base Pay Range: 194,475.00 - 285,230.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

Base Pay Range: 162,375.00 - 238,150.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 148,425.00 - 217,690.00 USD