Head of Research

📋 Description

• Develop, own and evolve the research strategy and align with Orca's product roadmap.
• Lead, coach, and mentor a multidisciplinary research team.
• Build a high-performing org, including hiring, onboarding, and performance management.
• Partner with product and engineering to turn research into roadmap items and detection logic.
• Drive discovery of new vulnerabilities, attack techniques, and adversary behaviors in cloud and modern infra.
• Define metrics for research impact and external reach.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in security research, threat intelligence, vulnerability discovery, offensive security, or closely related roles.
• Proven people management experience (mandatory), including hiring, mentoring, and growing.
• Demonstrated ability to set a research vision, prioritize, and execute through others in a cross-functional environment.
• Strong research fundamentals: designing experiments, validating hypotheses, and turning ambiguous signals into clear findings.
• Excellent stakeholder management and partnership skills, including collaboration with engineering and product teams.
• Solid coding fluency and automation mindset; Python/Go helpful.

🎁 Benefits

• High-growth environment with rapid milestones.
• Disruptive innovation in cloud security; shape the field.
• Well-capitalized unicorn backed by top investors.
• Respectful, transparent culture with accessible leadership.
• Opportunity to lead and shape Orca's security research program.