Director, Rapid-Response & AI Security Thought Leadership

CrowdStrike Inc.; Montgomery (AL); Remote; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

Wellness programs

Generous vacation

Parental and adoption leaves

Professional development

Employee networks

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Director of Rapid Response & Thought Leadership to lead the marketing rapid-response program and shape the cybersecurity conversation. This role requires delivering timely, high-impact content across blogs, webinars, and customer resources.

You'll collaborate with Product Marketing, Threat Intelligence, Communications, and Sales Enablement to drive strategic programs focused on AI research, AI safety, and security across platforms.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in cybersecurity marketing or related fields.
• Experience building rapid-response marketing programs with SLAs.
• Experience leading thought leadership programs with measurable impact.
• Strong cybersecurity knowledge including threats and enterprise security.
• Excellent storytelling and communication for executives.
• Ability to work with urgency and cross-functional execution.
• Experience building and leading high-performing teams.
• Hands-on with generative AI and automation to accelerate workflows.
• Experience using AI to improve decision-making and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the rapid-response marketing program for emerging threats and major cybersecurity events.
• Build and operationalize rapid-response with SLAs, prioritization criteria, escalation paths.
• Coordinate with Product Marketing, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, Communications, Editorial, Legal, Digital, and Sales Enablement.
• Translate threat research into blogs, explainers, webinars, videos, and customer resources.
• Lead AI thought leadership programs spanning frontier AI research and AI safety.
• Develop ongoing thought leadership programs across cloud security, identity, threat intelligence, and exposure management.
• Drive cross-functional execution across digital, social, campaigns, and sales channels.
• Leverage AI and automation to speed content development and workflows.
• Establish performance metrics and reporting for rapid-response and marketing-influenced pipeline.

Skills

Cybersecurity marketing

Rapid-response program

Thought leadership

AI research

Storytelling

Cross-functional leadership

Team leadership

Data-driven

Marketing automation

Stakeholder management

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Director of Rapid Response & Thought Leadership to lead the marketing rapid-response program and shape the cybersecurity conversation. This role requires delivering timely, high-impact content across blogs, webinars, and customer resources.

You'll collaborate with Product Marketing, Threat Intelligence, Communications, and Sales Enablement to drive strategic programs focused on AI research, AI safety, and security across platforms.