Vice President, Threat Detection & Response

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Vice President, Threat Detection & Response based in United States.** This executive role leads the full Threat Detection & Response organization, serving as the strategic owner of a critical cybersecurity function. You’ll oversee Security Operations, Security Analysis, Security Triage, Tactical Response, Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting, and Adversary Tactics. The position is responsible for defining a multi-year vision and translating it into measurable security and business outcomes. You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, Innovation, Data, Support, and Sales to evolve security operations through automation and agentic technologies. A major focus will be balancing automation with expert human judgment, allowing security teams to concentrate on sophisticated threats and complex intrusion analysis. You’ll also shape organizational design, leadership development, culture, and change management across a high-impact global security function. This is an opportunity for a technically credible cybersecurity executive to transform how threat detection and response scales while strengthening customer protection and business performance. ### Accountabilities: As Vice President, Threat Detection & Response, you will provide executive leadership across the entire TD&R organization, owning its strategy, structure, operational effectiveness, and measurable outcomes. - Lead the full Threat Detection & Response organization across Security Operations, Security Analysis, Security Triage, Tactical Response, Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting, and Adversary Tactics. - Define and execute a long-term TD&R strategy, vision, and operating model aligned with customer needs and broader business objectives. - Establish clear organizational structures, strategic priorities, resource plans, and measurable outcomes while empowering senior leaders to manage day-to-day execution. - Drive measurable improvements in mean time to detect and respond, detection coverage, detection quality, operational consistency, and overall security outcomes. - Partner with Product, Engineering, Innovation, Data, Support, and Sales to develop and execute an agentic Security Operations Center roadmap. - Identify opportunities to automate repetitive and deterministic investigations while preserving human expertise for complex threat analysis and high-value security decisions. - Lead major organizational and cultural change initiatives associated with the evolution toward an increasingly automated and agentic security operating model. - Build a strong culture of transparency, accountability, trust, continuous improvement, and high performance across the organization. - Identify systemic operational bottlenecks, tooling challenges, workflow friction, and analyst capacity or burnout risks, and develop effective solutions. - Build and maintain a resilient leadership bench of senior directors and managers capable of leading through high-pressure incidents and complex operational environments. - Make rapid, informed decisions using frontline security signals, operational data, and emerging threat intelligence to stay ahead of evolving threat actors. - Own major strategic security initiatives and ensure they deliver meaningful value for customers and the broader business. - Communicate security strategy, organizational priorities, risks, performance, and outcomes clearly to executive leadership and other key stakeholders. - Connect security metrics and operational performance to broader business outcomes, including customer retention, efficiency, margin, and growth. **Requirements:** The ideal candidate is a senior cybersecurity leader with deep expertise in modern security operations, threat detection and response, and organizational transformation, combined with strong business judgment and executive communication skills. - 10+ years of experience leading modern security operations, threat detection and response, incident response, threat hunting, or closely related cybersecurity functions. - 5+ years of experience leading through managers and directors across a multi-functional security organization or business unit. - Proven experience developing and executing strategic plans for major cybersecurity functions, including accountability for organizational design and resource decisions. - Deep understanding of modern threat detection, incident response, security operations, threat hunting, and adversary tactics. - Strong technical perspective on where automation and AI can scale security operations and where human judgment must remain central. - Demonstrated ability to lead significant operational, technological, and organizational transformation. - Strong business acumen and ability to connect cybersecurity performance and metrics to customer retention, operational efficiency, profitability, and business growth. - Proven ability to build leadership depth and develop high-performing, resilient management teams. - Strong experience creating healthy, accountable, and transparent organizational cultures. - Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical risks and strategies into clear business language for executive teams and boards. - Strong strategic judgment, intellectual honesty, and ability to make high-impact decisions in rapidly changing environments. - Ability to balance long-term strategic transformation with immediate operational and security priorities. - Demonstrated ability to build consensus across Product, Engineering, Innovation, Data, Support, Sales, and other cross-functional teams. - Strong change-management skills and experience guiding teams through major shifts in operating models, technology, and organizational structure. **Benefits:** - Base salary of **$250,000–$320,000 USD**, plus bonus and equity. - 100% remote work environment across the United States. - Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays. - 12 weeks of paid parental leave. - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans. - 401(k) with a **5% employer contribution**, regardless of employee contribution. - Life and disability insurance. - Stock options for all full-time employees. - One-time **$500 USD** reimbursement for building or upgrading a home office. - Annual education and professional development allowance. - **$75 USD/month** digital reimbursement. - Access to BetterUp for professional coaching and personal and career development. - Inclusive and collaborative remote-first work environment.