Director, Threat Intelligence Research

At Arctic Wolf, you won’t just watch the cybersecurity industry evolve – you'll help lead the change. Our global Pack is made up of people who thrive on solving hard problems, moving fast, and building technology that protects organizations around the world. We’re proud to be recognized by Forbes, CNBC, Fortune, CRN, Bartner Peer Insights and IDC MarketScape – but what matters most is the work behind it: delivering real outcomes for customers through award winning innovation like our Aurora Platform. 

If you’re looking for meaningful work, smart teammates and the chance to make a real impact in a high-growth company that’s redefining security operations, Arctic Wolf is the right place for you! 

Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Director, Threat Intelligence Research to be part of making that happen.   

About the Role

This senior leadership role owns the strategy and execution of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) at Arctic Wolf, an AI-native security operations company. The mission is singular: anticipate what will hurt our customers, and translate that foresight into prioritized, contextual intelligence that directly drives detection engineering, threat operations, and product outcomes. The Director leads multiple intelligence teams, sets collection and analytic priorities tied to Arctic Wolf’s customer base, and builds an agentic-first operating model that transforms CTI into the engine of an AI-native security organization. The role is also a primary public face of Arctic Wolf threat research, driving rapid-response publications, executive briefings, media engagement, and industry keynotes that establish the company’s authority in the threat landscape, on par with the standard set by leading research programs in the industry.

Job Scope

Owns the vision and execution of Arctic Wolf’s Cyber Threat Intelligence function. Directs multiple intelligence teams, defines collection and analytic priorities tied to customer risk, and is accountable for the speed, relevance, and downstream impact of intelligence on detection engineering, threat operations, and product.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive detection engineering through intelligence-led collection and prioritization, ensuring every campaign, TTP, and threat actor tracked translates into a ranked detection backlog tied to customer risk.

• Anticipate what will hurt customers: define collection priorities, PIRs, and coverage goals grounded in Arctic Wolf’s customer base, sectors, attack surface, and adversary landscape.

• Lead the rapid-response function for high-severity events (zero-days, mass exploitation, breach disclosures, geopolitically driven campaigns), coordinating cross-functional response and public communications.

• Partner with Data Science, Threat Operations, Detection Engineering, Product Management, and Engineering to productize intelligence, turning research into customer-facing capabilities, signals, and content.

• Build an agentic-first operating model: codify intelligence workflows as agentic systems, evaluate and adopt frontier AI tooling, and lead the team’s transformation into AI-native analysts.

• Set the internal CTI frameworks (PIRs, ATT&CK alignment, attribution discipline, confidence and probability language, intel-to-detection pipeline) used across the company.

Expert Positioning Goal:

• Establish Arctic Wolf as a recognized authority in threat research through rapid-response publications, blogs, podcasts, and original research reports.

• Engage with PR, Communications, and Marketing to ensure timely, accurate, and high-impact external messaging during major incidents and disclosures, and to amplify research that defines the company’s voice in the market.

• Speak at top-tier industry and government forums (e.g., RSA, Black Hat, FIRST, SANS Summits, FS-ISAC, InfraGard, ISAC and government exchanges) and represent Arctic Wolf in public-private partnerships.

• Brief customers, executives, and boa