Manager, Adversary Intelligence

SailPoints Cybersecurity organization is seeking an Adversary Intelligence Manager with a passion for cybersecurity and protecting the a strategic move to elevate our Cyber Defense Operations we are combining our Red Team and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) functions into a single unified Adversary Intelligence team. This team will strategically sit adjacent to our Security Operations Center (SOC) within the Cyber Defense Operations org. The successful candidate will lead this newly combined organization uplifting our offensive and intelligence capabilities to continually test the security of our products enterprise and response readiness.

This new leader will partner closely with our Security Operations Center (SOC) to drive threat-informed defensive measures and ensure seamless collaboration across our Cyber Defense Operations organization. Were seeking a candidate with proven technical capabilities who can work on both the enterprise and application sides of the house while pushing the boundaries of innovation. A key focus for this role will be pioneering the use of AI and agentic capabilities to automate scale and enhance adversary emulation threat hunting and intelligence analysis.

Our new Adversary Intelligence Manager will embrace the opportunity to work across diverse platforms and will play a key role in shaping our future security posture. Theyll work with an established team of talented and dedicated teammates guiding both emerging and established talent. Theyll naturally embody the 4 Is at SailPoint (Individual Impact Innovation and Integrity) embrace new challenges and be a positive contributor to an already excellent work culture and environment.

This is a challenging and impactful role where you will have the opportunity to work with both internal and external stakeholders including our fantastic colleagues in IT DevOps Product Engineering Security Engineering and the wider Cyber Security team.

This role reports directly to the Sr. Director of Cyber Defense Operations and can be remote or based in Austin TX.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Unified Program: Direct the unified intelligence collection analysis and adversary emulation programs ensuring CTI directly informs and shapes targeted red team campaigns.

• Pioneer AI & Agentic Innovation: Architect and implement AI-driven and agentic automation workflows to scale threat intelligence collection synthesize unstructured threat data and dynamically execute emulation playbooks.

• SOC Partnership & Purple Teaming: Co-design collaborative purple-team exercises and continuous feedback loops with the SOC and Attack Surface Management (ASM) teams to rapidly translate offensive findings into robust detection engineering rules or prevention strategies.

• Strategic Risk Enumeration: Translate complex offensive testing results and emerging threat intelligence into strategic risk profiles and actionable executive-level recommendations for business leaders.

• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Guide mentor and develop a diverse team of senior offensive security engineers and threat intelligence analysts fostering a collaborative culture across historically distinct disciplines.

• Advanced Tool Development: Oversee the innovation of custom tools techniques and APIs to automate data ingestion intelligence reporting and dynamic adversary emulation.

• Executive Briefings: Present high-impact threat briefings risk assessments and incident post-mortems to cybersecurity leadership and broader enterprise stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Meet FedRAMP access requirements.

• 810 years of experience in cybersecurity with at least 4 years managing or leading blended threat intelligence and offensive security (Red Team / Purple Team) operations.

• AI/Automation Acumen: Practical exposure to or strong conceptual understanding of integrating Generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs) or agentic frameworks into cybersecurity workflows.

• SOC & Defensive Collaboration: Proven track record of partnering with SOC incident response or detection engineering teams to improve overall defensive telemetry and detection maturity.

• Technical Expertise: Deep technical mastery across attack simulation frameworks commercial/open-source threat intelligence platforms (TIPs) and hands-on scripting/custom tool development.

• Strong leadership communication and program management abilities with a history of building high-performing cross-functional teams.

• Certifications: CISSP OSCE/OSEP GREM GCTI or equivalent demonstrable industry expertise.

Benefits and Compensation listed vary based on the location of your employment and the nature of your employment with SailPoint.

As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge skills experience market conditions and locations as well as reflect SailPoints differing products industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. We estimate the base salary for US-based employees will be in this range from (min-max USD):

Base salaries for employees based in other locations are competitive for the employees home location.

Benefits Overview

1. Health and wellness coverage: Medical dental and vision insurance

2. Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability

3. Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)

4. Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees spouses and children

5. Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account

6. Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching

7. Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy

8. Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually

9. Sick leave

10. Parental support: Paid parental leave

11. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors

12. Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance Critical Illness Accident Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options

13. Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.

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