Director, Security Operations & Enablement

Reports to: Chief Security Officer

Location: Remote US

Compensation Range: $200,000 to $250,000 base plus bonus and equity

Note: While this role is not directly responsible for our Security Operations Center (SOC), it will enable the transformation of the "business operations" of the entire Security Department (including the SOC) through scaling operations, to include development and improvement of training, standards, and processes.

What We Do:

Huntress is a fully remote, global team of passionate experts and ethical badasses on a mission to break down the barriers to cybersecurity. Whether creating purpose-built security solutions, hunting down hackers, or impacting our community, our people go above and beyond to change the security game and make a real difference.

Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress protects all businesses—not just the 1%—with enterprise-grade, fully owned, and managed cybersecurity products at the price of an affordable SaaS application. The Huntress difference is our One Team advantage: our technology is designed with our industry-defining Security Operations Center (SOC) in mind and is never separated from our service.

We protect 4M+ endpoints and 7M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting.

What You’ll Do:

As the Director of Security Operations & Enablement (SO&E), you will build and lead a brand-new sub-department designed to be the engine of scalability for the entire Security organization. In this high-impact role reporting directly to the Chief Security Officer, you will drive business process improvements, professional development, and technical innovation to support our hypergrowth.

You will function as a strategic architect, overseeing a team dedicated to maturing our People, Process, Technology, and Information. Your mission is to ensure the Security Department, and by extension, the company, can handle rapid expansion without compromising quality, efficiency, or morale. You will lead three core functional areas: Security/Technical Training, Security Department Operations, and Security Enablement Engineering.

Responsibilities:

Drive Security & Technical Training

• Establish a Learning Culture: Address the relentless nature of the cyber threat landscape by fostering role-specific competencies and promoting continuous learning. Your primary audience is the Security Department, with a secondary focus on company-wide security fluency.
• Develop Learning Paths: Implement a proactive "learning path" model, ensuring every employee is consistently skilled for their current role while having a clear developmental trajectory to their next level or position.
• Curriculum & Onboarding: Oversee the creation of role-specific curricula, incorporating on-demand training, hands-on labs, and certification programs.
• Standardize Onboarding: Develop and formalize a standardized onboarding process for all sub-departments within Security to accelerate time-to-value for new hires.
• Measure Impact: Focus on outcomes that increase security effectiveness, improve talent retention, and boost team morale.

Architect Security Operations Excellence

• Maximize Efficiency: Act as the architect of operational excellence. Analyze existing workflows to identify friction points and eliminate inefficiencies, ensuring processes are cost-effective and streamlined.
• Ensure Quality & Consistency: Enforce best practices and standardization across the department. Drive the automation of repetitive tasks and incorporate Quality Control (QC) protocols where appropriate.
• Strategic Alignment: Ensure all processes and workflows are designed to meet business objectives and possess the flexibility to handle significant volume increases or organizational growth without compromising performance.
• Innovate & Adapt: Remove broken or ineffective processes to free up teams to focus on data-driven decision-making. Establish a foundation that enables the rapid and successful implementation of new technologies, including AI and automation.

Lead Security Enablement Engineering

• Eliminate Friction: Lead the engineering efforts to automate and integrate internal security workflows, accelerating "deliver-the-service" timelines for all Security sub-departments.
• Tooling & Integration: Focus on developing and maintaining internal tools, scripts, and integrations that support the Security Department’s unique needs.
• Advanced Tech Adoption: Oversee proof-of-concepts (POCs) and implementations of emerging technologies, specifically improved threat intelligence integrations and the appropriate application of AI/automation to security workflows.

What You Bring To The Team:

• Leadership Experience: Proven experience leading security or technical operations teams in a high-growth or hyper-scale environment. Experience managing people leaders is a plus.
• Operational Mindset: A track record of "fixing broken processes." You can demonstrate how you have transformed manual, chaotic workflows into streamlined, automated systems.
• Training & Development Passion: Experience building or overseeing technical training programs, competency frameworks, or learning and development (L&D) initiatives for technical teams.
• Technical Proficiency: Strong background in security engineering or operations. You understand the tools (SIEM, EDR, SOAR) and the data (Threat Intel, Telemetry) well enough to guide engineering solutions.
• Strategic Vision: Ability to translate high-level business goals (e.g., "scale to 10M endpoints") into actionable operational roadmaps.
• Innovation: A forward-thinking approach to technology, with a keen interest in how AI and automation can augment human capabilities in cybersecurity.

Huntress Values:

• Own It: We build trust by doing what we say we will do. We keep commitments and transparently showcase our wins and losses.
• Elevate It: We exist to improve our industry, educate our community, and support the success of all. We obsess over creating value.

Send It: We relentlessly pursue innovation and push the boundaries of what's accepted to benefit our customers. We act quickly and intelligently.

What We Offer: 

• 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015
• Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans 
• 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
• Life and Disability insurance plans
• Stock options for all full-time employees 
• One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office
• Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance 
• $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
• Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth

Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are. 

We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.  

We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit businesses of all sizes.

Accommodations: 

If you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, or pre-employment testing or participate in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response. 

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