Company Overview: At Praetorian, we are bringing together the world's brightest minds in pursuit of solving the cybersecurity problem by reducing the friction of security and enabling the next wave of technological innovation. From projects that range from cryptocurrency exchanges to autonomous vehicles and from medical device platforms to space telescopes, we use a first-principles approach and leverage both expertise and engineering to help secure our customers. 

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 generation of great security engineers
• Leave an indelible mark on a company where individual input has a 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 management by objectives and key results
• Manage a professional services team of 7 to 9 direct, technical reports
• Maniacal focus on client satisfaction and service delivery
• Oversee team's engagement schedule and utilization targets
• Enhance, improve, and streamline cloud service line offerings
• Grow, develop, promote, 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

Desired qualifications:

• 5+ years of cybersecurity experience including at least 2 years of management experience
• Prior experience in technical project management and service delivery
• Prior experience in account management and customer relationships
• Prior experience in people management and managing a technical team
• Prior experience working alongside cloud and infrastructure teams
• Familiarity securing the public cloud and popular cloud providers such as Azure, AWS, & GCP
• Experience with threat modeling, asset risk analysis, and translating security to business outcomes
• Bachelors in business, computer science, information systems, engineering, math, or physics

+1 additional qualifications:

• Familiarity with cutting-edge cloud tech stacks, modern cloud security technologies, and best practices
• Familiarity with modern security patterns and continuous security architecture principles
• Familiarity with popular cloud blueprints, cloud design patterns, cloud architectures
• SEC540, SEC541, SEC584, SEC557, SEC588, and/or MGT516, MGT520 certifications a plus
• Prior consulting experience with the Big 4 or Big 3 a major plus

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
• Motivated by passion with an 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:

• 85% or greater customer net promoter score
• 85% or greater employee net promoter score
• 80% or greater resource utilization
• 10% or less voluntary team attrition
• Taken joint ownership of the cloud security practice
• Demonstrated execution with an ability to consistently hit team OKRs

Compensation & Benefits:

• Highly competitive salary
• Employee stock option plan
• Annual budget for training, certifications, and conferences
• 90% employee coverage and 60% dependent coverage on health insurance premiums
• 100% employee coverage and 60% dependent coverage on dental and vision insurance premiums
• 4% company 401K matching vested immediately 
• 6-16 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave

Targeted Base Salary:

• Annual Base of 160K-200K
• To account for a higher cost of living areas, we have modified our salaries for the following metropolitan areas:
  • Seattle: 185K - 232K
  • New York: 169K - 242K
  • Boston: 168K -210K
  • Washington DC: 185K - 231K
  • San Francisco: 212K - 266K

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.