CareerPlan

Director of Detection and Response

New YorkFull-time$280k2026-10-08 → 2026-11-09

Core

Build and lead the Detection and Response team to identify threats, respond to incidents, and strengthen defenses for an AI-native legal tech platform.

Role type

Director of Detection and Response (Technical Leadership)

Builds

Detection pipelines, forensic tooling, response automation, and incident response capabilities for cloud, endpoint, identity, and SaaS environments.

Domain

Cybersecurity / AI Security / Enterprise SaaS

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Team building and scaling, Incident response leadership, Detection engineering, Threat hunting, Cloud infrastructure, Identity security, Software engineering practices, Strategic risk translation

Preferred skills

AI/ML environment security, Insider threat investigation, Privileged access governance, Regulatory compliance experience

Technologies

Cloud, Endpoint, Identity, SaaS, Telemetry, Forensic tooling, Response automation

Responsibilities

Build and lead the detection and response organization; Own incident response and crisis readiness; Set technical direction for detection and response engineering; Focus defenses on meaningful threats using threat intelligence; Partner cross-functionally on sensitive investigations; Drive continuous improvement through blameless reviews and metrics.

Seniority

Director, Technical Leadership