Principal Security Research Manager

We are looking for a Principal Security Research Manager to lead a team dedicated to detecting attacks against Identity and Cloud Apps. The team is directly accountable for the security effectiveness of our Defender for Identify and our Defender for Cloud Apps and building the next Identity Detection and Response solution for our Security.  This person should have a deep understanding of what it means to run a large-scale, operational organization supporting millions of customers, and the accountability that comes with it. This team balances the fast-paced demand of on-call responsibilities and constant adjustment to adversaries with product innovation, team career growth, and work life balance. A successful leader in this role balances these competing demands while fostering cross-organizational collaboration to build and deliver on the strategic vision for protecting user identities and cloud apps that have access to critical company resources.  Are you up for this challenge? 

Responsibilities:

People Management:
Model our values and actively drive team culture improvements. 
Connect business objectives with the right talent on the team. Help the team set clear goals and adapt when the business or environmental factors change course. 
Attract and retain great people; Know each individuals capabilities and aspirations and invest in their growth. 

Strategy and Innovation: 
Develop the strategic vision for how we leverage all the tools at our disposal (including the latest developments in AI) to improve product effectiveness to meet business goals and influence product and business group decisions. 
Cultivate relationships between yourself and your team across the organization to champion the adoption of innovative solutions that deliver business impact. 

Operational Excellence:
Help team align work with business goals, document team plans, experimentation results, work in progress and completed. 
Ensure team members are ready for on-call rotation. 
Hold team accountable for quality monitoring, root cause analysis, and implementation of fixes, process or documentation improvements based on learnings. 

Other Requirements:
Ability to meet us, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: This position will be required to pass the company`s Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.