Position Overview: You will be responsible for managing one of our security services team. The team provides offensive and defensive advisory services to the Fortune 500 and venture-backed start-ups. We need a well rounded individual who not only has a deep technical background in offensive and defensive cybersecurity activities, but who also has a deep commitment to their team's career development, a fanatical obsession with customer success, and a relentless restlessness to improve the security practice's core service offerings.
From software hacking to hardware hacking, we help secure everything from cryptocurrency exchanges and space telescopes to autonomous vehicles and the electric grid. You will have the opportunity to work with some of the best security engineers in the world who hail from organizations such as Amazon, CIA, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, NSA, Sun Microsystems., and US Air Force. As an Inc. Best Places to Work, Inc. 500 | 5000, CyberSecurity 500, and Austin Fast 50 Award recipient, we are seeking an individual that understands the professional and personal growth attached to this opportunity and who has the corresponding internal drive to maximize it.

To learn more about Praetorian, visit: https://www.praetorian.com/careers

Career opportunity:

• Join an industry with massive socio, economic, and political importance in the 21st century
• Partner with prominent clients and help them solve hard security problems
• Work alongside some of the best and the brightest minds in the security industry
• Lead a security team and cultivate the next gen of great security engineers
• Leave an indelible mark on a company where individual input has real impact
• Be recognized, internally and publicly, for your contributions in a high profile position
• Align your career trajectory with a hyper growth company that is on the move

Core responsibilities:

• Drive performance and manage by objectives and key results
• Manage a services team of 7 to 9 direct, technical reports
• Maniacal focus on client satisfaction during service delivery
• Oversee team's engagement schedule and resource utilization
• Enhance, improve, and streamline service line offerings
• Grow, develop, and retain direct reports

Accountable for:

• Quarterly customer net promoter score objectives and key results
• Quarterly team utilization and gross margin objectives and key results
• Quarterly practice improvement objectives and key results
• Quarterly team retention objectives and key results

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of industry experience with a deep understanding of the cybersecurity space
• Familiarity with common development practices such as waterfall, agile, and scrum
• Familiarity with offensive security, advanced attack and pen, and red teams
• Prior experience in an outward and customer facing role
• Prior experience in people and project management
• Prior experience working alongside product teams
• Prior experience managing a technical team

Desired qualifications:

• Prior cyber security consulting experience
• Familiarity with software maturity models such as OpenSAMM, BSIMM, and SDL
• Familiarity with security design patterns, cloud blueprints, and common architectures
• Familiarity with Google Beyond Corp and other advanced defensive design models
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and various detection response solutions
• Bachelors in business, computer science, engineering, math, or physics

Desired behaviors:

• Customer centric focus with an obsessive need to wow and delight each client
• Obtains fulfillment in helping people do what they do best and grow in their career
• Relentless restlessness to improve service execution, service delivery, and the service practice
• Ability to maintain high levels of output and work ethic
• Personable individual who enjoys working in a team-oriented environment
• Comfort dealing with ambiguity in an environment where we build the plane as we fly it
• Ability to work within constraints and to challenge the status quo
• Ability to self-direct work, orient to action, and truly own the position in a hyper-growth environment
• Ability to translate business objectives into tactical, technical activities and vice versa

If this position is wildly successful, in one year you will have:

• Taken complete ownership of the practice
• Become the driving force behind your team's direction
• 85% or greater net promotor score
• 80% or greater resource utilization
• 85% or greater employee satisfaction score
• 10% or less voluntary team attrition

Compensation package includes:

• Highly competitive salary
• Annual performance-based incentive compensation
• Employee stock option plan
• Annual budget for training, certifications, and conferences
• 70% company coverage on health insurance premium
• 4% company 401K matching vested immediately 
• No formal vacation policy with flexible hours and working environment

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Praetorian. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

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