Praetorian Looking for Practice Director at Remote Full Time

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Company overview: at praetorian, we are bringing together the world`s brightest minds in pursuit of solving the cybersecurity problem by reducing the friction of security and enabling the next wave of technological innovationFrom projects that range from cryptocurrency exchanges to autonomous vehicles and from medical device platforms to space telescopes, we apply expertise and engineering to help secure our customers.

Career opportunity:

Join an industry with massive socio, economic, and political importance in the 21st century
Partner with prominent clients and help them solve hard security problems
Work alongside some of the best and the brightest minds in the security industry
Direct a security team and cultivate the next gen of great security engineers
Leave an indelible mark on a company where a persons input has a real impact
Be recognized, internally and publicly, for your contributions in a high profile position
Align your career trajectory with a hyper-growth company that is on the move

Core responsibilities:

Drive performance and manage by objectives and key results
Manage a team of 3 – 6 first-line managers
Maniacal focus on client satisfaction during service delivery
Oversee team`s resource utilization, revenue, and gross margin
Enhance, improve, and streamline service line offerings
Mentor, develop, and retain direct reports
Assist sales in scoping new business opportunities
Assist sales in managing existing client relationships

Desired qualifications:

10+ years of industry experience
Prior cybersecurity consulting experience
Prior fluency in an outward and customer-facing role
Prior fluency in people and project management
Prior fluency managing a technical team
Bachelors in business, computer science, engineering, physics, or mathematics

+1 qualifications:

Prior experience communicating with c-suite executives and board of directors
Familiarity with common development practices such as waterfall, agile, and scrum
Familiarity with software maturity models such as opensamm, bsimm, and sdl
Familiarity with security design patterns, cloud blueprints, and common architectures
Familiarity with nist csf and other risk frameworks and governance models
Familiarity with google beyond corp and other advanced defensive design models
Familiarity with mitre att&ck and various detection response solutions
Familiarity with offensive security, advanced attack and pen, and red teams
Familiarity with threat hunting, incident readiness, and incident response
Advanced degree or mba

Desired behaviors:

Customer centric focus with an obsessive need to wow and delight each client
Ability to `helicopter` up and down from frontline technical issues to board level strategy
Ability to simplify technical concepts into a form that is suitable for executives
Deep leadership and managerial traits with an orientation to action and an extreme style of ownership
Entrepreneurial traits with a move fast and get it done mentality
Obtains fulfillment in helping people do what they do best and grow in their career
Relentless restlessness to improve service execution, service delivery, and the service practice
Ability to maintain high levels of output and work ethic
Personable person who enjoys working in a team-oriented environment
Comfort dealing with ambiguity in an environment where we build the plane as we fly it
Ability to work within constraints and to test the status quo
Ability to self-direct work, orient to action, and truly own the position in a hyper-growth environment
Ability to translate business objectives into tactical, technical activities and vice versa

Compensation & benefits:

Highly competitive salary
Employee stock option plan
Annual budget for training, certifications, and conferences
90% employee coverage and 60% dependent coverage on health insurance premiums
100% employee coverage and 60% dependent coverage on dental and vision insurance premiums
4% company 401k matching vested immediately
6-16 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave

Targeted base salary:

Annual base of 180k – 220k
To account for higher cost of living areas, we have modified our salaries for the following metropolitan areas:
Boston: 189k – 230k
Seattle: 208k – 252k
New york: 217k – 262k
San francisco: 239k – 286k
Washington, dc: 207k – 250k

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will need to verify identity and eligibility to work in the united states and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

We are dedicated to an inclusive and diverse praetorianWe are an equal opportunity employerWe do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

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