Offensive Security Team Lead

 

Why We Have This Role

In today's dynamically evolving cybersecurity landscape, offensive security is not just a luxury; it’s a necessity for safeguarding our organization against sophisticated threats. The Offensive Security Team Lead is a vital role, tasked with pioneering our proactive security strategies through advanced penetration testing, threat modeling, and ongoing vulnerability assessments. This position holds significant influence over our security posture and our ability to outsmart adversaries, ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of our systems and data.

How You’ll Find Success

• Strategic Visionary: You bring a deep understanding of offensive security principles and methodologies, proactively identifying and addressing potential threats. You will shape the offensive security strategy, ensuring it aligns with the organization’s objectives and overall security framework.
• Technical Innovator: Your dedication to continuous improvement drives you to evaluate and implement advanced offensive security technologies and practices. You will ensure our security measures remain robust against evolving threats and align with industry best practices.
• Collaborative Leader: You will foster partnerships across departments, advocating for offensive security best practices. By nurturing collaboration, you will build an informed environment focused on a strong security posture and resilience against breaches.
• Resilient and Adaptive: You thrive in a dynamic environment, effectively managing complex offensive security projects. Your skill in guiding cross-functional teams through challenges and changes will be invaluable as you navigate the fast-evolving cybersecurity landscape.

How You’ll Grow

• Shape Industry Standards: Engage in industry forums, white papers, and collaborative initiatives to help define the future of offensive security practices.
• Executive Presence: Increase your visibility and involvement in strategic decision-making at the executive level, enhancing your communication and influence skills.
• Expand Your Leadership Toolkit: As a thought leader in offensive security, you will mentor and develop the skills of emerging talents within your team, building a knowledgeable and capable workforce.
• Complex Problem-Solving: Address significant security challenges that will enhance your critical thinking, analytical, and strategic planning skills.

Things You’ll Do

• Drive Offensive Security Innovation: Lead initiatives to research, assess, and implement cutting-edge offensive security tools and techniques that enhance our penetration testing, threat hunting, and vulnerability assessment practices.
• Guide Offensive Security Operations: Oversee the daily management and execution of offensive security projects, ensuring adherence to security protocols, ethical standards, and operational efficiency.
• Shape Security Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive offensive security strategy that aligns with the organization's risk profile and overall business objectives, ensuring proactive measures are in place against potential threats.
• Manage Complex Projects: Oversee and coordinate large-scale offensive security initiatives, ensuring timely delivery while proactively identifying and mitigating risks, fostering a culture of agility within teams.
• Foster a Culture of Excellence: Create an environment that encourages knowledge sharing, collaboration, and continuous learning. You will mentor team members, guiding them in their professional development and enhancing our collective offensive security capabilities. Your contributions will strengthen our high-performing team, dedicated to achieving security excellence.

What We’re Looking For On Your Resume 

While we value the wealth of experience, we put more emphasis on your capability and the outcomes you've produced. For this role, these elements are particularly important:

• Extensive Security Expertise: 8+ years of experience in offensive security, including penetration testing, threat analysis, and vulnerability management, with a proven track record of designing and implementing effective security measures.
• Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of security testing tools (e.g., Metasploit, Burp Suite, Nmap), methodologies, and frameworks. Familiarity with security standards and compliance regulations is a plus.
• Demonstrated Initiative Leadership: Proven experience leading large-scale offensive security initiatives and coordinating cross-functional teams to align diverse stakeholders toward common security objectives; this includes successfully implementing assessments that enhance security posture and organizational resilience.
• Strategic Mindset: Ability to translate offensive security challenges into actionable strategies that integrate with business goals and risk management frameworks.
• Collaboration & Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders while building constructive partnerships across the organization.

Remember, it's not about how many years you've worked; it's about what you've achieved during that time that counts.

The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life.