Senior Director, Product - Threat Intelligence & Detections

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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, Gartner 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 Senior Director, Product - Threat Intelligence & Detection to be part of making this happen.

LOCATION: This role is open to Remote-United States, Remote-Canada, Hybrid-Eden Prairie-MN-USA, Hybrid-Waterloo-ON-CAN.

This senior product management lead role for Arctic Wolf defines and evangelizes the commercial strategy and product roadmap for threat intelligence & threat hunting along with delivering on the platform strategy to drive detection efficacy and efficiency for the latest threats keeping our customers safe. You will collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, Security Research, and cross-functional teams to align product vision with company goals, guide strategic planning, and drive innovation and outcomes in threat intelligence, threat hunting and detection engineering. You will lead initiatives to map strategy to execution, commission research, define OKRs, and maintain alignment across product lines and stakeholders. As a respected leader in the cybersecurity space, you will influence organizational structure, drive cross-team buy-in, mentor others, and represent your group with transparency and integrity.

Role Scope

• Presents at stakeholder meetings to communicate the vision and alignment with corporate strategy

• Works with product principals and engineering leaders to communicate strategy and high-level roadmap for threat intelligence, detections, and AI related initiatives to Leadership, PM and Engineering teams

• Participates in cross-functional efforts and co-design to ensure product initiatives leverage existing security research capabilities and avoid redundant development

• Decides (with Architecture and Security Research leadership) when new threat detection or intelligence capabilities are sufficiently differentiated to create new products or platforms and deliver highest value in efficacy and efficiency

• Creates vision and strategy presentations and documents that address high-level cybersecurity problems, emerging threat landscapes, and AI-driven solutions

• Defines and drives the strategic vision for threat intelligence and threat hunting while overseeing the incubation of breakthrough threat detection capabilities that improve effectiveness of our products (MDR, EDR) and the SOC

• Leads cross-functional teams through product development, fostering a culture of experimentation, rapid iteration, threat validation, and customer-centric innovation in security

• Partners with executive leadership to align threat intelligence and AI initiatives with long-term business goals, ensuring resource allocation and portfolio management driving high-impact security outcomes

Knowledge & Experience

• Deep expertise in threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, and security research practices and their application to product development

• Demonstrated understanding of conversational AI, large language models (LLMs), and machine learning applications in cybersecurity and threat intelligence and or detections is a plus

• Collaborate and run cross-functional backlog reviews for threat intelligence and detections; participate in other product line reviews to contribute to overall organizational prioritization

• Commission research into possible strategies to address customer security problems and evolving threat landscapes

• Identify OKRs for threat intelligence, threat hunting and detections in support of wider corporate goals

• Identify follow-up analysis and insights into emerging threat patterns and their implications for product strategy

Complexity and Problem Solving

• Communicates to teams about process changes and the value these bring—provides clarity and answers questions about threat detection innovation priorities

• Works with Engineering and Labs leadership to align threat intelligence, detection, and AI strategies with company direction, then breaks out specific initiatives to implement and support the strategy

• Propagates priorities and "big rocks" to product principals and technical leaders to create an overall threat intelligence and detection product roadmap

• Helps other product teams understand how threat intelligence, detections, and AI capabilities enable faster, more effective threat response in their solutions

• Identifies projects that shift priorities and communicates with stakeholders across threat intelligence, security operations, and engineering teams

Collaboration & Interaction

• Aligns cross-functional teams (Security Research, Engineering, Sales, Go-to-Market) on threat intelligence product strategies & roadmap to successfully meet the business needs

• Drives buy-in and support from the SOC, security research, engineering, sales, and broader organization improving our threat intel and detection efficacy and efficiency

• Creates documentation required for calibration efforts and prepares for reviews with evidence of achievements to represent the threat intelligence and detection portfolio

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with deep expertise in threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, incident response, or security research—this is non-negotiable

• 10+ years of product management e…