Field CISO

Reports to: Manager, Cybersecurity Advisors

Location: Remote US

Compensation Range: $200,000 to $215,000 OTE (base plus bonus) and equity

What You’ll Do:

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.

Responsibilities:

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.

What You Bring To The Team:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

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)

What We Offer:

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