We are an early-stage startup, looking for a technical leader to lead our research & innovation department. Youll lead the Research function at the intersection of Cybersecurity AI and payment fraud prevention. Were revolutionizing B2B payments with cutting-edge technologies, and need a talented, detail-oriented leader to drive our security research efforts and make a real impact on how enterprises secure their payment flows.
What Youll Do:
Build & Lead a World-Class Team: Scale our Research group from 2 to 4 experts, mentoring them to tackle an underserved problem in payment security.
Define the Research Roadmap: Own the strategy for discovering attack trends, vulnerabilities, and fraud methods in B2B payment processes.
Hands-On Research: Hunt emerging threatsinvestigate supply-chain and payment-flow attacks, quantify impact, and prototype novel detection/remediation tools.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Engineering, and Threat Intelligence to transform research insights into features that enhance our AI-driven security platform.
Customer & Industry Engagement: Present findings to strategic customer leaders and at conferences; publish whitepapers or blog posts that establish our domain expertise.
Incubate & Operationalize PoCs: Turn proofs-of-concept into production-ready product capabilities that preemptively defend against next-gen payment fraud.
Balance Long-Term Vision & Short-Term Wins: Maintain an action-oriented mindset to deliver both immediate research outputs and foundational work for future product pillars.
What Youll Do:
Build & Lead a World-Class Team: Scale our Research group from 2 to 4 experts, mentoring them to tackle an underserved problem in payment security.
Define the Research Roadmap: Own the strategy for discovering attack trends, vulnerabilities, and fraud methods in B2B payment processes.
Hands-On Research: Hunt emerging threatsinvestigate supply-chain and payment-flow attacks, quantify impact, and prototype novel detection/remediation tools.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Engineering, and Threat Intelligence to transform research insights into features that enhance our AI-driven security platform.
Customer & Industry Engagement: Present findings to strategic customer leaders and at conferences; publish whitepapers or blog posts that establish our domain expertise.
Incubate & Operationalize PoCs: Turn proofs-of-concept into production-ready product capabilities that preemptively defend against next-gen payment fraud.
Balance Long-Term Vision & Short-Term Wins: Maintain an action-oriented mindset to deliver both immediate research outputs and foundational work for future product pillars.
Requirements:
Experience: 5+ years in security research, with at least 2 years leading or scaling a small team.
Domain Expertise: Deep familiarity with enterprise cybersecurityideally focused on payment security, fraud prevention,email security and other related AI/ML-based platforms.
Technical Skills: Hands-on proficiency in software development using (e.g., Python, GO), and prototyping security tools and capabilties.
Leadership & Talent-Acquisition: Experience in managing a strong technical team and a track record of attracting, mentoring, and retaining top research talent.
Communication: Excellent verbal and written English skills; able to distill complex technical insights for technical and non-technical audiences alike.
Mindset: Independent, fast learner, creative thinker with strong analytical horsepower and a passion for solving unsolved security challenges.
Nice-to-Haves:
Background in early-stage startups or high-growth environments.
Published research or speaking engagements at top conferences (e.g., Black Hat, DEF CON, RSA).
Experience in AI/ML techniques for threat detection or behavioral analytics.
Experience: 5+ years in security research, with at least 2 years leading or scaling a small team.
Domain Expertise: Deep familiarity with enterprise cybersecurityideally focused on payment security, fraud prevention,email security and other related AI/ML-based platforms.
Technical Skills: Hands-on proficiency in software development using (e.g., Python, GO), and prototyping security tools and capabilties.
Leadership & Talent-Acquisition: Experience in managing a strong technical team and a track record of attracting, mentoring, and retaining top research talent.
Communication: Excellent verbal and written English skills; able to distill complex technical insights for technical and non-technical audiences alike.
Mindset: Independent, fast learner, creative thinker with strong analytical horsepower and a passion for solving unsolved security challenges.
Nice-to-Haves:
Background in early-stage startups or high-growth environments.
Published research or speaking engagements at top conferences (e.g., Black Hat, DEF CON, RSA).
Experience in AI/ML techniques for threat detection or behavioral analytics.
This position is open to all candidates.
