🌍 DEI&B Commitment (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging)
At SafeBreach, we celebrate the rich diversity of our team, where every employee's unique perspective is a valued thread in our collective success. We are unwavering in our commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace that nurtures a sense of belonging and empowers each individual to unleash their full potential. We are dedicated to creating opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and meaningful career growth, ensuring that every voice is not just heard, but cherished.
🔹 Title: VP of Research
📍 Locations (Hybrid): Tel Aviv (Sky Tower)
👥 Reporting To: Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
🌟 OPPORTUNITY HIGHLIGHTS
We are looking for a visionary VP of Research to lead our elite research group, SafeBreach Labs, based out of our Tel Aviv R&D center. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will be responsible for the company’s threat research strategy, driving original vulnerability discovery, and ensuring our "Hacker’s Playbook" remains the most comprehensive in the industry.
This is a highly visible role that balances deep technical leadership with external evangelism. You will not only manage a team of top-tier security researchers but also serve as the public face of our research. You will be presenting at major global conferences, briefing executive customers, and shaping the industry narrative on offensive security.
🚀 THE IMPACT YOU WILL HAVE
Research Leadership & Strategy
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of security and threat researchers.
- Define the research roadmap, balancing original vulnerability research (novel attack vectors) with threat intelligence (analyzing emerging APTs, ransomware, and TTPs).
- Foster a culture of innovation, guiding the team to discover new attack surfaces in Windows, Linux, macOS, and LLMs.
Thought Leadership & Evangelism
- Serve as a primary spokesperson for SafeBreach Labs. You must have a proven track record of speaking at top-tier industry conferences (e.g., Black Hat, DEF CON, RSA, BlueHat).
- Drive the creation of high-impact technical content, including white papers, technical blogs, and press commentary on breaking security news.
- Represent SafeBreach in the media and create relationships with the broader security community.
Product & Business Alignment
- Collaborate closely with Product Management and R&D to translate research findings into product capabilities.
- Ensure our customers are protected against the latest threats (e.g., US-CERT alerts, Flash reports) within hours of disclosure.
Customer Engagement
- Act as a trusted advisor to C-level executives (CISOs, CIOs) at our strategic customers.
- Support the Sales and Customer Success teams by providing deep technical insights during high-stakes briefings and QBRs.
🧬 WHAT SETS YOU APART
- Experience: At least 5+ years of hands-on experience in Security Research (Offensive Security, Vulnerability Research, or Threat Intelligence).
- Management: Proven experience managing and mentoring research teams. You know how to retain top talent and foster creativity while meeting deadlines.
- Public Speaking: Demonstrated experience presenting technical research at major international security conferences (Must provide examples/links to talks).
- Customer Facing: Proven experience in a customer-facing capacity, with the ability to explain complex technical threats to executive audiences.
- Technical Depth: Deep understanding of OS internals (Windows/Linux/Mac), Reverse Engineering, Network Protocols, and modern adversary tradecraft (MITRE ATT&CK framework).
💥 EVEN BETTER IF YOU HAVE
- Experience working in a startup or hyper-growth environment.
- Published CVEs or acknowledgments from major vendors (Microsoft, Apple, etc.).
- Active contributor to the open-source security community.
👋 WHO WE ARE
SafeBreach is the only Adversarial Exposure Validation solution built for large, complex environments—validating defenses before and after a breach. With proactive control testing (Validate), live post-breach propagation (Propagate), and an AI engine that accelerates analysis and remediation, we simulate attacker behavior to show not just where defenses could fail, but exactly how a threat actor could move and their potential impact. Powered by SafeBreach Labs and the industry's largest threat library, we help teams continuously validate and strengthen their cyber resilience.
🤝 HOW WE'LL GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER
We view interviewing as a two-way street. We want you to interview us just as much as we interview you! (Avg. timeline: 21-28 days)
Step 1: The Intro (15 min)
A casual meeting with the Talent team to break the ice.
Step 2: The Vision (60 min)
Connect with your future manager to discuss the role, the challenges, and how you can make an impact.
Step 3: The Big Picture (45 min)
Discussions with our HR Team and VP of R&D to ensure our values and long-term goals align with yours.
Step 4: The Offer
If the vibe is right, we make it official!
Top Skills
What We Do
Did you know that global cyberattacks have increased upto 32% year over year and enterprises now deploy 75+ cybersecurity related tools on their networks just to keep pace with the increasing complexity and frequency of attacks. But even with the huge investment in security tools, 61% of organizations have difficulty prioritizing cyber risk-reduction efforts due to a shortage of talent and 40% of security professionals say conflicting data makes it difficult to assess posture.
A pioneer in breach and attack simulation (BAS), SafeBreach is the world’s most widely used continuous security validation platform. We are on a mission to fundamentally change the way organizations manage their defenses and control cyber risk.
Our award-winning BAS solution enables modern enterprises to continuously and safely execute attacks, validate and optimize the efficacy of their security controls, and prioritize remediation efforts to mitigate their most critical gaps before a breach occurs. With our Hacker’s Playbook™—the industry’s most extensive collection of attack data enabled by state-of-the-art threat intelligence research—SafeBreach empowers organizations to get proactive about security with a simple approach that replaces hope and fear with real-world data and real-time action.
Traditional security control validation tactics can’t keep up with the growing threat landscape, understaffed teams, and ongoing enterprise transformation. To be effective, you need a holistic view of your security ecosystem with the ability to easily integrate improvements.
The SafeBreach Hacker's Playbook contains 25,000+ attack methods, and we uphold a 24-hour SLA on US-CERT and FBI Flash alerts, so client's can always be confident of threat coverage. We have established the market's most diverse and mature partner ecosystem and our platform fits seamlessly into client environment. Whether it's one host or 100,000, our solution is simple and easy to deploy and scale up. Our flexible dashboards and customizable reports provide the visualizations you need to quickly understand overall security posture metrics.
Why Work With Us
You will have the opportunity to make a real impact on how the world manages the changing threat landscape as we address our customers most critical and complex problems.
Our benefits go beyond 100% employer paid insurance (which we do) we also offer remote work, non-traditional hours, flexible time off and opportunities to grow and learn.
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