Head of Red Team & Offensive Security

Sophos; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Sophos is seeking a senior leader to own and drive the Red Team services portfolio, shaping multi-year service strategies and aligning with business objectives. You will lead a high‑performing consulting team delivering offensive security engagements, from penetration testing to full-scale Red Team exercises, while partnering with sales and incident response teams.

You will manage a P&L, forecast demand, and steer go-to-market initiatives.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in the cybersecurity industry leading offensive security.
• Presales and post sales delivery experience at the SME level.
• Demonstrated ability to manage high‑performing teams as well as maintain and enhance a strong team culture.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience briefing executive management.
• Experience working with global, remote, multi‑cultural teams.
• Ability to prioritize, delegate and complete tasks within tight timeframes to meet deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills, self‑starting, proactive, motivated, team‑player.
• Results‑oriented and customer focused.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and good judgment in resolving issues.
• Effective at managing conflict and negotiating with stakeholders, with support from senior leadership.
• Experience mentoring and leading technical teams in a matrixed consulting environment (align with sales, IR, threat intelligence and global teams).
• Fluent Japanese proficiency as well as business‑level English for running business required.

Responsibilities

• Help develop and lead a multi-year service, delivery, as well as supporting with financial strategy, to meet company objectives and reinforce our position as an industry leader in offensive security.
• Lead a high performing team of technical consultants delivering a variety of offensive security engagements (penetration testing, application security testing, full scale Red Team, etc.).
• Help manage a P&L including forecasting, backlog management, utilization, and scheduling.
• Partner with the sales organization and other business development leaders and be seen as a “go to” for complex adversarial testing needs.
• Build and advance cross‑functional relationships within Sophos that include the Incident Response Team, Counter Threat Unit, Marketing, Sales.
• Identify opportunities – people, process, and technology – to improve efficiencies within the team.
• Represent the Sophos Red Team services portfolio; identify and champion new services, capabilities, and offers; provide thought leadership; and develop an associated go‑to‑market strategy for the services in the portfolio.
• Drive teams to consensus on business priorities, delivery best practices, and implementation of new ideas. Willingness to changes, to contribute ideas, listen to others, and learn from others. Challenge the status quo.
• Foster career development and champion career development opportunities for the team (conferences, training, certifications, mentoring, etc.).
• Own NPS/customer satisfaction and ensure practice meets/exceeds expected targets. Maintain a culture of premium customer service.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Presales experience

Team management

Executive communication

Global collaboration

Project prioritization

Customer focus

Negotiation skills

Mentoring

Japanese

English proficiency

Education

Professional degree in cybersecurity

Tools

OSCP

CEH

CISSP

OSWE

Job description

Sophos is seeking a senior leader to own and drive the Red Team services portfolio, shaping multi-year service strategies and aligning with business objectives. You will lead a high‑performing consulting team delivering offensive security engagements, from penetration testing to full-scale Red Team exercises, while partnering with sales and incident response teams.

You will manage a P&L, forecast demand, and steer go-to-market initiatives.