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Offensive Security Manager (Red Team)

Role Summary

The Manager, Red Team leads the organization's red team capability, responsible for simulating real world cyber threats, including AI enabled attack scenarios, to strengthen detection, response, and overall cyber resilience. This role owns the strategy, execution, and continuous evolution of the Red Team program, ensuring adversary emulation and purple team engagements across traditional and AI augmented environments drive measurable improvements to the organization's security posture.

Reporting to Cyber Security leadership, this position leads a team of offensive security professionals and partners closely with Cybersecurity Operations, Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, Legal, Risk, Conduct, and Technology teams. The role requires deep offensive security expertise, strong leadership capabilities, risk management experience, and the ability to communicate effectively with technical and executive audiences.

This position is ideal for a leader who understands how artificial intelligence is reshaping the threat landscape and how to safely test AI systems alongside enterprise infrastructure, applications, and data environments.

Key Responsibilities

Own and continuously evolve the enterprise Red Team program, including adversary emulation, threat informed testing, and advanced offensive security assessments.

Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Red Team professionals through hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development.

Design and execute realistic Red Team and Purple Team engagements, including assumed breach scenarios, intelligence driven campaigns, and AI related attack simulations.

Assess risks introduced by AI, automation, and data driven systems, incorporating those risks into offensive security testing strategies.

Ensure all Red Team activities are conducted safely, ethically, and within defined operational guardrails to minimize business disruption and risk.

Partner with Cybersecurity Operations, Detection Engineering, Security Architecture, and Technology teams to strengthen detection capabilities, response procedures, and security controls.

Define standards, tools, processes, and performance metrics for Red Team operations, balancing custom developed capabilities with commercial platforms and emerging AI security technologies.

Translate findings into actionable risk mitigation recommendations and communicate results effectively to technical stakeholders and senior leadership.

Support audit, compliance, risk management, and regulatory activities through threat informed testing and control validation.

Maintain awareness of evolving threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures, applying industry best practices to Red Team operations.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

8+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including at least 5 years in offensive security, Red Team operations, adversary emulation, or penetration testing within a mid to large enterprise environment.

3+ years of people leadership experience managing senior security engineers, Red Team practitioners, or offensive security teams.

Demonstrated experience leading complex Red Team and Purple Team engagements, including intelligence driven campaigns and assumed breach operations.

Strong understanding of attacker methodologies, enterprise attack paths, and modern offensive security frameworks.

Experience assessing AI security risks and conducting security testing of AI enabled products, services, applications, or workflows.

Proven success translating offensive security findings into measurable improvements in detection, response, and overall security posture.

Experience operating within highly regulated or risk sensitive environments.

Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence senior leaders and drive cross functional collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience developing custom offensive security tools, automation, or adversary simulation capabilities.

Familiarity with cloud security testing across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments.

Experience testing identity platforms, enterprise SaaS applications, and modern application architectures.

Knowledge of threat intelligence integration and threat informed defense methodologies.

Certifications

One or more of the following certifications are preferred:

OSCP, Offensive Security Certified Professional

OSCE, Offensive Security Certified Expert

OSEP, Offensive Security Experienced Penetration Tester

OSED, Offensive Security Exploit Developer

CRTO, Certified Red Team Operator

CRTP, Certified Red Team Professional

GXPN, GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester

AI security, AI red teaming, or equivalent emerging cybersecurity certifications

Success Measures

Improved detection and response effectiveness resulting from Red Team and Purple Team engagements.

Demonstrated maturity and effectiveness of the enterprise Red Team program.

Strong partnership with cybersecurity, technology, and business stakeholders.

Measurable reduction in critical security gaps through threat informed testing and validation efforts.