Field CISO - Huntress

About Huntress

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. We build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). Huntress now secures more than 6M endpoints and 17M identities worldwide.

About the Role

The Huntress team is looking for a 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 will work with strategic prospects, customers, and partners through targeted advisory engagements rather than routine account support.

• Reports to: Manager, Cybersecurity Advisors
• Location: Remote (US)
• Travel: Up to 25% for partner and event meetings

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 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/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: Partner with Account Executives and Sales Engineers on strategic new business opportunities. Lead conversations showing alignment between prospect cybersecurity requirements and Huntress, ensuring clear expectations for post-sales partnership.

What You Bring

• 7+ years of experience in security leadership, security advisory, consulting, or pre-sales roles, focusing on enterprise organizations or strategic partners
• Proven experience working in or with Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
• Deep technical understanding of adversary tactics and the ability to educate diverse 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 or conferences
• A strategic and proactive mindset with the ability to identify growth and improvement opportunities independently
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience responding to cybersecurity threats and applying threat intelligence to investigations and 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 planning
• Experience building or scaling managed security services (service design, delivery models, 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
• Generous paid time off policy (vacation, sick time, paid holidays)
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Medical, dental, and vision benefit plans
• 401(k) with a 5% company contribution regardless of employee contribution
• Life and disability insurance plans
• Stock options for all full-time employees
• One-time $500 home office setup reimbursement
• Annual allowance for education and professional development
• $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
• Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching and professional growth