Field CISO

Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact.

Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24⁄7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers’ protection.

Huntress now secures more than 6M endpoints and 17M identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other.

The Huntress team is looking for a highly strategic and collaborative Field CISO with deep cybersecurity expertise, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to advise executive audiences. Field CISOs are trusted security leaders who help customers and partners translate security risk into business priorities and practical strategy. You’ll work with strategic prospects, customers, and partners through targeted advisory engagements rather than routine account support.

• Executive Advisory & Security Strategy: Serve as a trusted security advisor to executive, board, and technical stakeholders across strategic pre-sales, customer, and partner engagements. Lead executive briefings, threat landscape discussions, security program maturity and risk reviews, and tabletop exercises. Help customers and partners prioritize security investments and align roadmaps, architecture, and operational workflows with business objectives.
• Product Advocacy & Field Intelligence: Bring customer, partner, market, and competitor insight to Product, Engineering, and company leadership. Translate field needs into clear requirements and use cases, contribute to product readiness and design-partner engagements, and help inform product direction.
• Thought Leadership & Brand Evangelism: Represent Huntress through public speaking at industry conferences, executive roundtables, partner and customer events, and webinars, as well as media and community engagement. Partner with Marketing to develop practitioner-informed content and repeatable guidance and playbooks for executive and technical audiences.
• Pre-sales Force Multiplier: Be involved in strategic new business deals. Have strategic conversations with prospects where you help show the alignment between the prospects’ cybersecurity requirements and Huntress.  Partnering with Account Executives and Sales Engineers to make sure the prospect understands the post sales relationship with Huntress and the nature of a true partnership.

• 7+ years of experience in security leadership, security advisory, consulting, or pre-sales roles, with a focus on enterprise organizations or strategic customers and partners
• Proven experience working in or with Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
• Deep technical understanding of adversary tactics and the ability to educate a wide range of audiences on methods and mitigation strategies
• Knowledge of security technologies and practices including EDR, ITDR, SIEM, SOAR, Public Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), and IAM
• Experience working with common compliance frameworks (e.g., CMMC, SOC 2, NIST, ISO 27001)
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, including demonstrated public speaking experience at industry events, conferences, or company-wide meetings and the ability to explain complex security topics to executive and technical audiences
• A strategic and proactive mindset with the ability to work independently to identify opportunities for improvement and growth
• Comfortable traveling up to 25% of the time and meeting face-to-face with key partners

• Experience responding to cybersecurity threats and applying threat intelligence to investigations, response decisions, or security improvements
• Experience owning a security program, including budget planning, investment prioritization, and risk acceptance
• Experience leading organizations through significant security incidents, including executive communication and post-incident improvement planning
• Experience building or scaling managed security services, including service design, delivery models, and operational maturity
• Prior experience in a security consulting or vCISO role
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, GCIH, CCSP)

• 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015
• Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans
• 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
• Life and Disability insurance plans
• Stock options for all full-time employees
• One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office
• Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance
• $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
• Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth

_Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are._ 

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.  

We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit businesses of all sizes.

_If you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, or pre-employment testing or participate in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to accommodations@huntresslabs.com. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response._ 

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