Security Research Manager

Bitsight is a cyber risk management leader transforming how companies manage exposure, performance, and risk for themselves and their third parties. Companies rely on Bitsight to prioritize their cybersecurity investments, build greater trust within their ecosystem, and reduce their chances of financial loss. Built on over a decade of technological innovation, its integrated solutions deliver value across enterprise security performance, digital supply chains, cyber insurance, and data analysis.

We invented the cyber ratings industry in 2011 Over 3500 customers trust Bitsight Over 600 teammates are dispersed throughout Boston, Raleigh, New York, Lisbon, Singapore, and remote

Job Title:

Security Research Manager

Location:

Boston, MA or Raleigh, NC (Onsite)

About Us:

Bitsight is a cyber risk management leader transforming how companies manage exposure, performance, and risk for themselves and their third parties. Companies rely on Bitsight to prioritize their cybersecurity investments, build greater trust within their ecosystem, and reduce their chances of financial loss. Built on over a decade of technological innovation, its integrated solutions deliver value across enterprise security performance, digital supply chains, cyber insurance, and data analysis.

We invented the cyber ratings industry in 2011 Over 3,500 customers trust Bitsight Over 600 teammates are dispersed throughout Boston, Raleigh, New York, Lisbon, Singapore, and remote

The Product Research team within Bitsight’s Security Research department focuses on technology and methodology development for security telemetry collection, processing, and analysis. The team is part of Bitsight’s broader product development organization and will be involved with investigating and prototyping new potential product capabilities. This manager position will be tasked with leading a multifaceted security research team that addresses a broad range of Bitsight's strategic technical challenges.

This role will be ideally suited to a technical leader with a mix of security and data science skills who is eager to lead a research team and influence the future technology investments of the Bitsight platform.

• Establish team priorities for research and development of new data collection prototypes, big-data analytic pipelines, and security exposure assessment methodologies
• Collaborate with the product and engineering organizations to align capability development roadmaps and complete technology transfer of research prototypes into production environments
• Decompose long-term strategic business challenges into technical research plans
• Recruit, train, and develop a team of security researchers
• Clearly articulate research findings to business stakeholders and provide defensible recommendations on business processes, priorities, and investments
• Develop, drive, and own processes for quality assurance of team research and data
• Ideate product features and enhancements based on the latest security trends and capabilities
• Identify, establish, and maintain data partnership opportunities in collaboration with Data Operations through scouting and assessment of product value in third party data sources
• Support marketing activities and customer engagements by promoting key findings and capabilities and explaining product data and ratings concepts

• Strong technical background with expertise in networking and information security
• Strong communication and analytical skills, including the ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems
• Adept at applying AI tooling to accelerate projects and workflows while understanding and mitigating the risks they introduce
• Experience leading research initiatives and teams to build…