R&D Director - Harmony Email Security

As the world’s leading vendor of Cyber Security, facing the most sophisticated threats and attacks, we’ve assembled a global team of the most driven, creative, and innovative people. At Check Point, our employees are redefining the security landscape by meeting our customers’ real-time needs and providing our cutting-edge technologies and services to an ever-growing customer base.

Check Point Software Technologies has been honored by Time Magazine as one of the World’s Best Companies for 2024. We've also earned a spot on the Forbes list of the World’s Best Places to Work for five consecutive years (2020-2024) and recognized as one of the World’s Top Female-Friendly Companies. If you're passionate about making the world a safer place and want to be part of an award-winning company culture, we invite you to join us.

Check Point Harmony Email Security and Collaboration (Previously AVANAN) is a unique email solution that fully secures cloud email and cloud platforms using AI.

By joining our management team as the R&D director, you will take full responsibility of the email and collaboration product family R&D, manage a growing global team of over 50 professionals, and be at the top of technology for cloud SaaS high scale/high velocity AI/ML based security solutions, serving tens of thousands of global enterprise customers

.If you want to make a real global impact, making the world a safer place join us

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Major Responsibiliti

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Product Developme

• nt:Oversee the design, development, maintenance and deployment of cutting-edge cloud-based email security products and features, serving tens of thousands of global enterprise custome
• rs.Ensure products meet market needs and regulatory requirements while maintaining the highest security and coding standar
• ds.Ensure products are developed in the most cost effective manner, deployed over multiple regions utilizing cutting edge cloud infrastructure and technologi
• es.Ensure products are robust, built to scale and support dynamic architecture changes for fast growing changing environmen
• ts.Ensure product is fully monitored at the highest level 24/7 by actively implementing a reliable monitoring system across multiple domains and regio

ns.Team Manageme

• nt:Lead, mentor, and develop a growing high-performing R&D team of over 50 high skill professionals, across the globe. including group and team leaders, software engineers, data scientists, and cybersecurity exper
• ts.Foster collaboration and cross-functional integration between R&D, product management, customer success, and other departmen
• ts.Manage our R&D team building. Recruit and support extending our R&D ever growing team to catch up with product grow
• th.Monitor and report on R&D performance metrics and project progress to the executive te

am.Research & Innovati

• on:Drive research initiatives to explore new technologies, threats, and opportunities in cloud, AI/ML and email securi
• ty.Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends, emerging threats, and competitive landsca
• pe.Drive innovation through threat modeling, prototyping, and validating emerging technologi

es.Quality Assuran

• ce:Ensure rigorous testing and validation processes to guarantee the reliability, performance, and security of produc
• ts.Implement best practices for software development and quality assurance utilizing advanced automation technologi
• es.Implement full system monitroing to assure production top availability and performan

ce.Strategic Leadersh

• ip:Develop and implement the R&D strategy in alignment with the company's product vision and business objectiv
• es.Adopt AI/ML to enhance threat detection, anomaly detection, and behavior analysis for better email securi
• ty.Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and excellence within the R&D te
• am.Manage and mentor cross-functional teams of researchers, engineers, and data scientis
• ts.Foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and technical excellen

ce.Budget Manageme

• nt:Manage the R&D budget, ensuring effective allocation of resources to projects and initiativ
• es.Manage email security cloud cost and drive cloud cost optimization initiatives and activiti

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Desired Backgr

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Sk

• ills:Deep understanding of cloud bases SaaS architecture and implementation, with specific vast experience with AWS infrastructure and various AWS managed serv
• ices.Experience with development of multi-tenant lareg scale complex systems, utilizing microservices , ontainers and serverless computing, implemented with Python, Go, Angular, React and underlying technolo
• gies.Experience with development of AI/ML based solut
• ions.Experience with secure software development practices, adhering to global regulation SOC, PCI
• etc’.Deep understanding of security technologies (Email Security – Advantage), threat detection, and prevention mechan
• isms.Strong leadership and team management skills with the ability to inspire and drive a diverse global
• team.Excellent strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making abili
• ties.Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with internal and external stakehol

ders.Experi

• ence:Minimum of 10 years of experience in R&D, with at least 5 years Experience with driving large R&D groups, managing multiple global teams using agile development methods (Security and Email security industry – Advant
• age).Prior experience with development and management of high scale, innovative cloud based SaaS. used by thousands of global enterprise custo

mers.Educa

• tion:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related f

ield.
Preferred Qualific

• ationsAdvanced degree preferred (MS/PhD) in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical
• field.Industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, GIAC, CCSP) are a
• plus.Deep understanding of email security threats: phishing, spoofing, malware, BEC, ranso
• mware.Familiarity with cloud-based email platforms: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and various email gat
• eways.Proficiency with email authentication and security protocols: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, S/MIME