Senior Phishing Tradecraft Researcher - Huntress

About Huntress

Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact.

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. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers' protection.

Huntress now secures more than 5M endpoints and 16M identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other.

The Role

• Reports to: Manager, Product Research
• Location: Remote US
• Compensation Range: $170,000.00 to $185,000.00 base plus bonus and equity

Do you like getting into the weeds on all things technical, psychological, and educational, and have a desire to know how things work? Then this is the position for you. We are looking for that Swiss Army Knife that brings broad experience to each challenge presented. The Huntress Product team has the unique honor of waking up every morning knowing we’re going to make hackers regret targeting our partners and customers.

As a Senior Product Researcher for our Security Awareness Training product, we’re looking for someone who wants to pour all of their creativity into building and implementing simple solutions that are disproportionately effective at countering these constantly evolving threats. One should have experience managing, deploying, and securing SMB environments utilizing a wide variety of security software, best practices, and automation tools. Familiarity with product management, incident response, social engineering, psychology, education, and managed service provider tools is an additional way to differentiate yourself.

Responsibilities

• Operate Phishing Program: Manage a proven, industry-leading Security Awareness Training phishing program.
• Design Simulations: Act as the security expert designing and building phishing scenario emails and landing pages that simulate real cyber attacks for thousands of SAT learners. Pair every simulation with coaching that highlights social engineering tells and indicators.
• Technical Prototyping: Script and code to build proofs-of-concept and tooling with a keen eye for creating pixel-perfect simulated phishing emails and landing pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React.
• Threat Intelligence: Identify emerging social engineering tradecraft from attack patterns, email metadata, and web expertise. Translate shifts in attacker tactics into educational content.
• Automation: Automate by default, evolving and expanding phishing content generation as an AI-powered system using Claude Code.
• Program Expansion: Expand the program into new regions, more languages, more tailored content, and new learning experiences with the guidance of the Product Manager and Principal Product Researcher.
• Triage & Analysis: Triage reported phishing emails, internal and external security incidents, and surface threat insights and trend analysis in the Huntress Threat Report, threat advisories, webinars, and conference talks.
• Strategic Alignment: Align with the Principal Researcher to deliver unified Security Awareness Training and phishing program outcomes.
• Project Management: Deliver exceptional product outcomes under tight deadline pressures with keen attention to detail and a sense of urgency.

What You Bring To The Team

• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React, Angular, or Vue.
• Proficiency with Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor with impressive projects to prove it.
• Experience manually building phishing simulation deliverables (emails and landing pages), simulating phishing attacks, and analyzing/reporting simulation results.
• Experience triaging reported phishing emails, security incidents, and identifying trends and patterns.
• Experience analyzing, tracking, and defending against phishing attacks.
• Experience identifying emerging tradecraft.
• Social engineering experience, coursework, training, or certifications.
• Experience innovating training content and working with eLearning design and development.
• Experience developing marketing content for social media, YouTube, blogs, and reports.
• Spanish language skills are desired, but not required.

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 your 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.