Join Huntress as a Field CISO to advise executive audiences on cybersecurity strategy in a fully remote environment.
Posted by employer 13 hours ago
First seen on Joblaze 6 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 6 hours ago
What you'll build
- Serve as a trusted security advisor to executive stakeholders
- Lead executive briefings and threat landscape discussions
- Bring customer and market insight to Product and Engineering
- Represent Huntress through public speaking at industry events
- Partner with Account Executives on strategic new business deals
Must have
- 7+ years of experience in security leadership or advisory roles
- Proven experience working with Managed Service Providers
- Deep technical understanding of adversary tactics
- Knowledge of security technologies and practices
- Experience with compliance frameworks
Nice to have
- Experience responding to cybersecurity threats
- Experience owning a security program
- Experience leading organizations through security incidents
- Experience building managed security services
- Relevant industry certifications
Practical constraints
- Comfortable traveling up to 25% of the time
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Requirements
- Experience
- 7+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Field CISO at Huntress plays a crucial role in advising executive and technical stakeholders on cybersecurity strategies, helping them align security investments with business goals. This position requires a deep understanding of security technologies and practices, along with strong communication skills to effectively engage with diverse audiences. Ideal candidates will have over seven years of experience in security leadership or consulting, particularly within enterprise environments or managed service providers. Huntress, a remote-first company founded by former NSA operators, emphasizes a collaborative approach to cybersecurity.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze November 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Huntress's careers page November 14, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Security roles (median ~$170,000).
- Starts above 75% of 68 comparable senior security roles in United States that list AWS we track (median $180,000 across 45 companies). See AWS salary trends
- AWS appears in 26.7% of 356 comparable senior security roles in United States; SOAR appears in 2.8% of 356 comparable senior security roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Field CISO role remote?
- Yes — Huntress lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Huntress lists $200,000–$215,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 7 years of relevant experience for this Field CISO role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Azure, EDR, GCP, IAM, ITDR.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Huntress targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Field CISO role at Huntress.
From the original posting
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)
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