our company seeks an experienced offensive security leader to build and lead the Product Red Team. This newly established function emulates real-world attacks against synthetic company customer instances to identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and design gaps before external threat actors or researchers discover them.
This role requires an operator who has led offensive security operations in high-consequence environments-covert intelligence or military settings preferred-with proven ability to establish operational standards, navigate ambiguous mission parameters, and influence cross-functional stakeholders around complex security trade-offs.
You will build upon this team's charter, engagement frameworks, and rules of engagement with other teams. You will help drive our company's product security and response posture through adversary emulation, vulnerability research, exploit development, and collaboration with other offensive and defensive teams.
Key Responsibilities
Establish Operations Objectives, Policies & Procedures
Own Product Red Team's operation objectives and engagement selection criteria in alignment with product security roadmap and risk register, CISO directives, and company priorities.
Expand upon rules of engagement, threat actor emulation standards, testing policies, and protocols.
Establish operational security procedures for covert operations, detection evasion, and incident response protocols.
Create escalation procedures and approval frameworks for high-risk engagements.
Own campaign selection processes, engagement proposal templates, and findings documentation and readout standards.
Define Engagement Framework & Success Metrics
Design and implement engagement types: vulnerability risk assessment, product security assessments, and ongoing adversarial campaigns.
Establish and report on technical and operational success metrics: kill chain coverage, remediation velocity, and detection engineering insights.
Create reporting templates-technical findings, executive briefings, engineering recommendations-that drive actionable remediation.
Define boundaries and operational testing windows in coordination with product engineering and detection engineering teams.
Lead Offensive Operations Team
Build team capability across threat actor emulation, exploit development, persistence mechanisms, supply chain security, and AI-specific attack vectors (prompt injection, model manipulation, data poisoning).
Mentor team on operational security tradecraft, documentation discipline, and risk management under ambiguous conditions.
Support team members in their time zones, spanning from US West Coast to India.
Conduct Complex Offensive Operations
Design and execute operations simulating realistic attack paths against synthetic customer instances-from initial access through persistence, lateral movement, and data staging.
Demonstrate real-world exploitability of vulnerability chains, design flaws, and configuration gaps.
Validate security controls, detection capabilities, and logging sufficiency across kill chain phases.
Identify and exploit legitimate our company features for malicious purposes ("living off the land" testing) to reveal detection gaps.
Build and operate proof-of-concept exploits and command & control channels that inform both remediation and detection priorities.
Navigate Cross-Functional Complexity.
Requirements: 12+ years of offensive security experience, with minimum 5+ years leading offensive operations teams in mission-critical environments.
Background in leading covert offensive cyber operations in:
Intelligence communities, or
Contracted equivalent, or
Top-tier private-sector adversary emulation firms or internal teams.
Expertise in:
Threat actor emulation and MITRE ATT&CK methodologies as translated and applied to product security.
Exploit development and proof-of-concept creation.
This position is open to all candidates.