Adversary Research Director

Arctic Wolf; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for employees

401(k) matching

Medical benefits

Job summary

Arctic Wolf is seeking a Senior Manager of Adversary Research to lead a team that discovers and explains sophisticated cyber threats. You will define strategy, direct investigations, and translate findings into durable detections and actionable intelligence for technical and executive audiences.

You will guide malware analysis, threat hunting, and infrastructure tracking while collaborating with threat hunting, incident response, and product teams to operationalize research outcomes.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in cyber threat intelligence or related field.
• 3+ years leading people or multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Experience translating threat intelligence into detections, hunting strategies, or product improvements.

Responsibilities

• Define the strategy, priorities, and operating model for the Adversary Research team.
• Lead, coach, and develop experienced threat researchers, intelligence analysts, and technical specialists.
• Direct research into nation-state groups, cybercriminal organizations, ransomware operations, malware campaigns, and emerging adversary tradecraft.
• Oversee proactive hunting across large-scale telemetry to identify previously unknown campaigns, infrastructure, malware, and behavioral patterns.
• Establish rigorous standards for actor tracking, campaign clustering, attribution, analytical confidence, and intelligence production.
• Guide advanced malware analysis, threat hunting, infrastructure tracking, and the development of YARA, Sigma, behavioral detections, and research tooling.
• Partner with threat hunting, incident response, detection engineering, security operations, product, and vulnerability research teams to operationalize findings.
• Direct the production of tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence for technical, executive, customer, and public audiences.
• Brief senior leaders and customers on emerging threats, adversary activity, and research outcomes.
• Build relationships with industry peers, government partners, intelligence-sharing communities, and external researchers.

Skills

Threat research leadership

Threat hunting

Threat intelligence

MITRE ATT&CK

Executive communication

Team leadership

Research strategy

Tools

YARA

Sigma

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Job description

Arctic Wolf is seeking a Senior Manager of Adversary Research to lead a team that discovers and explains sophisticated cyber threats. You will define strategy, direct investigations, and translate findings into durable detections and actionable intelligence for technical and executive audiences.

You will guide malware analysis, threat hunting, and infrastructure tracking while collaborating with threat hunting, incident response, and product teams to operationalize research outcomes.