Senior Phishing Tradecraft Researcher

Reports to: Manager, Product Research
Location: Remote US

Compensation Range: $170,000.00 to $185,000.00 base plus bonus and equity

What You’ll Do:

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 a proven industry-leading Security Awareness Training phishing program.
• Be the security expert designing and building phishing scenario emails & landing pages that simulate real cyber attacks for thousands of SAT learners. Every simulation is paired with coaching that shows learners the social engineering tells, how the learner can develop skills to identify social engineering tradecraft, the indicators, like hovering a link before clicking or receiving an unexpected email. Craft a growing library of common indicators and write new ones when a scenario calls for it.
• Comfortable scripting and coding to build proofs-of-concept and tooling with a keen eye for creating pixel-perfect simulated phishing emails & landing pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, & React. Take pride in delivering simulations impossible to distinguish from real tradecraft. The details are the job.
• Identify emerging social engineering tradecraft from attack patterns, email metadata, and web expertise. Today ClickFix attacks and variants dominate the threat landscape, but relentless hunger to get ahead of attacker tradecraft will mean translating the shifts in attacker tactics that matter into what the program teaches. Evolve deliverables with the tradecraft.
• Automate by default, evolving + expanding phishing content generation as an AI-powered system using Claude Code.
• Expand the program into new regions, more languages, more tailored content, and new kinds of learning experiences with the guidance of the Product Manager and Principal Product Researcher.
• Triage reported phishing emails, internal and external security incidents surfacing threat insights and trend analysis in the Huntress Threat Report, threat advisories, social media engagements, webinars & conference talks, resulting in strategic security awareness outreach campaigns.
• Align with the Principal Researcher to deliver unified Security Awareness Training and phishing program outcomes.
• Proven organizational and project management skills, with a keen attention to detail and sense of urgency to deliver an exceptional product under tight deadline pressures.
• Eagerness to engage, report, and be accountable to executive stakeholders.
• Passion to translate your expertise in technical & nontechnical ways to deliver impactful security outcomes that protect the 99%.

What You Bring To The Team:

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