Hybrid Senior Director, Research and Detection

Posted 4 days ago

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About the role

  • Director leading research and detection teams at HUMAN to combat cybercrime. Overseeing KPIs and detection strategies for efficient cyber defense systems and team growth.

Responsibilities

  • Own our core detection KPIs and overall efficacy for Sightline Cyber Defense (e.g., precision, recall), driving continuous improvement, clear trade-offs, and transparent reporting on these metrics.
  • Own the detection strategy for Sightline Cyber Defense, shaping how we use data, modeling, and experimentation to stay ahead of adversaries by creating asymmetrical advantages.
  • Lead and grow a high-performing team of data scientists, data researchers, and security researchers, with a focus on hiring, mentoring, career development, and clear expectations.
  • Drive end‑to‑end detection projects from hypothesis and exploratory analysis through modeling, offline validation, and production deployment in real‑time systems.
  • Partner closely with Product and Engineering to prioritize roadmaps, translate customer problems into detection work, and deliver measurable impact.
  • Integrate Data Science into production systems, working with Engineering to design scalable data pipelines, model serving, and monitoring for billions of daily events.
  • Raise the bar on detection quality by setting standards and best practices for precision/recall trade‑offs, adaptation resilience, and long‑term maintainability.
  • Foster a healthy, inclusive team culture aligned with HUMAN’s values: Lead With Humanity, Honor the Customer Journey, Unleash Our Potential, Move As One, Act With Purpose, and Navigate with Speed.

Requirements

  • Experience shipping models or algorithms into production in high‑scale environments (e.g., security, risk/fraud, identity, or other adversarial, enterprise-scale domains).
  • Strong proficiency with Python and SQL, and familiarity with modern data/ML tooling (e.g. GCP, BigQuery, Snowflake).
  • Demonstrated experience working with large‑scale, raw datasets and designing robust metrics and evaluation frameworks, especially for web/app traffic (e.g., HTTP logs, headers, cookies, browser fingerprints, device/identity signals) in adversarial or noisy environments.
  • Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain senior technical talent in competitive markets.
  • Experience working cross‑functionally with Product, Engineering, and Customer‑facing teams.

Benefits

  • well-being and learning stipends
  • flexible work options
  • dedicated time off

Job title

Senior Director, Research and Detection

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$240,000 - $290,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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