R&D Director - Defining the Future of Email Security

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 !

Key Responsibilities
Product Development:
Oversee the design, development, maintenance and deployment of cutting-edge cloud based email security products and features, serving tens of thousands of global enterprise customers.
Ensure products meet market needs and regulatory requirements while maintaining the highest security and coding standards.
Ensure products are developed in the most cost effective manner, deployed over multiple regions utilizing cutting edge cloud infrastructure and technologies.
Ensure products are robust, built to scale and support dynamic architecture changes for fast growing changing environments.
Ensure product is fully monitored at the highest level 24/7 by actively implementing a reliable monitoring system across multiple domains and regions.
Team Management:
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 experts.
Foster collaboration and cross-functional integration between R&D, product management, customer success, and other departments.
Manage our R&D team building. Recruit and support extending our R&D ever growing team to catch up with product growth.
Monitor and report on R&D performance metrics and project progress to the executive team.
Research & Innovation:
Drive research initiatives to explore new technologies, threats, and opportunities in cloud, AI/ML and email security.
Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends, emerging threats, and competitive landscape.
Drive innovation through threat modeling, prototyping, and validating emerging technologies.
Quality Assurance:
Ensure rigorous testing and validation processes to guarantee the reliability, performance, and security of products.
Implement best practices for software development and quality assurance utilizing advanced automation technologies.
Implement full system monitroing to assure production top availability and performance.
Strategic Leadership:
Develop and implement the R&D strategy in alignment with the company's product vision and business objectives.
Adopt AI/ML to enhance threat detection, anomaly detection, and behavior analysis for better email security.
Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and excellence within the R&D team.
Manage and mentor cross-functional teams of researchers, engineers, and data scientists.
Foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and technical excellence.
Budget Management:
Manage the R&D budget, ensuring effective allocation of resources to projects and initiatives.
Manage email security cloud cost and drive cloud cost optimization initiatives and activities.