Senior Director, Product - Threat Intelligence & Detections in Ontario

At Arctic Wolf, you won't just watch the cybersecurity industry evolve – you'll help lead the change. Our global Pack is made up of people who thrive on solving hard problems, moving fast, and building technology that protects organizations around the world. Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk.

Location: This role is open to Remote-United States, Remote-Canada, Hybrid-Eden Prairie-MN-USA, Hybrid-Waterloo-ON-CAN.

Role Scope

• Presents at stakeholder meetings to communicate the vision and alignment with corporate strategy.
• Works with product principals and engineering leaders to communicate strategy and high-level roadmap for threat intelligence, detections, and AI related initiatives to Leadership, PM and Engineering teams.
• Participates in cross-functional efforts and co-design to ensure product initiatives leverage existing security research capabilities and avoid redundant development.
• Decides when new threat detection or intelligence capabilities are sufficiently differentiated to create new products or platforms and deliver highest value in efficacy and efficiency.
• Creates vision and strategy presentations and documents that address high-level cybersecurity problems, emerging threat landscapes, and AI-driven solutions.
• Defines and drives the strategic vision for threat intelligence and threat hunting while overseeing the incubation of breakthrough threat detection capabilities that improve effectiveness of our products (MDR, EDR) and the SOC.
• Leads cross-functional teams through product development, fostering a culture of experimentation, rapid iteration, threat validation, and customer-centric innovation in security.
• Partners with executive leadership to align threat intelligence and AI initiatives with long-term business goals, ensuring resource allocation and portfolio management driving high-impact security outcomes.

Knowledge & Experience

• Deep expertise in threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, and security research practices and their application to product development.
• Demonstrated understanding of conversational AI, large language models (LLMs), and machine learning applications in cybersecurity and threat intelligence and/or detections is a plus.
• Collaborate and run cross-functional backlog reviews for threat intelligence and detections; participate in other product line reviews to contribute to overall organizational prioritization.
• Commission research into possible strategies to address customer security problems and evolving threat landscapes.
• Identify OKRs for threat intelligence, threat hunting and detections in support of wider corporate goals.
• Identify follow-up analysis and insights into emerging threat patterns and their implications for product strategy.

Complexity and Problem Solving

• Communicates to teams about process changes and the value these bring—provides clarity and answers questions about threat detection innovation priorities.
• Works with Engineering and Labs leadership to align threat intelligence, detection, and AI strategies with company direction, then breaks out specific initiatives to implement and support the strategy.
• Propagates priorities and "big rocks" to product principals and technical leaders to create an overall threat intelligence and detection product roadmap.
• Helps other product teams understand how threat intelligence, detections, and AI capabilities enable faster, more effective threat response in their solutions.
• Identifies projects that shift priorities and communicates with stakeholders across threat intelligence, security operations, and engineering teams.

Collaboration & Interaction

• Aligns cross-functional teams (Security Research, Engineering, Sales, Go-to-Market) on threat intelligence product strategies & roadmap to successfully meet the business needs.
• Drives buy-in and support from the SOC, security research, engineering, sales, and broader organization improving our threat intel and detection efficacy and efficiency.
• Creates documentation required for calibration efforts and prepares for reviews with evidence of achievements to represent the threat intelligence and detection portfolio.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with deep expertise in threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, incident response, or security research—this is non-negotiable.
• 10+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years at a director level or equivalent managing complex, cross-functional teams delivering enterprise security products at scale.
• Proven track record of taking products from strategy through successful market launch, with quantifiable results in revenue growth, customer adoption, or competitive market share expansion.
• Executive presence with ability to speak credibly to technical and non-technical audiences about cybersecurity strategy, emerging threats, and security innovation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in Threat Intelligence, managed security services (MSS), managed detection and response (MDR), or security operations centers (SOCs).
• Experience within a fast-growth cybersecurity company or within a security labs/innovation division focused on emerging threats or technologies.
• Active presence and network within the cybersecurity community, threat intelligence organizations, security research ecosystem, or industry consortiums is a plus.

What We're Looking For

A seasoned cybersecurity leader and product strategist who brings deep technical credibility and hands-on threat intelligence experience combined with strong executive product management acumen. You understand evolving threat landscapes and advanced adversary tactics, have direct experience with threat intelligence analysis and threat hunting, and are passionate about applying emerging AI technologies to revolutionize how organizations detect and respond to threats. You can operate effectively at the executive level, balance strategic vision with execution discipline, and drive organizational alignment on complex, multi-year threat defense initiatives. You thrive in a fast-paced, innovation-focused environment and have the credibility to influence executive decision-making on security investments.

About Arctic Wolf

At Arctic Wolf, we foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment that thrives on diversity of thought, background, and culture. Our commitment to bold growth and shaping the future of security operations is matched by our dedication to customer satisfaction, with over 10,000 customers worldwide and more than 2,000 channel partners globally.

Our Values

Arctic Wolf recognizes that success comes from delighting our customers, so we work together to ensure that happens every day. We believe in diversity and inclusion, and truly value the unique qualities and unique perspectives all employees bring to the organization.

Compensation & Benefits

• Equity for all employees.
• Flexible time off and paid volunteer days.
• RRSP contribution and matching.
• Training and career development programs.
• Comprehensive private benefits plan including medical, mental health, dental, disability, life and AD&D, and value-added services.
• Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with mental health services.
• Family-forming benefits, enhanced maternity benefits, and paid parental leave.

Equal Opportunity

Arctic Wolf is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, provincial, or local law. Arctic Wolf is committed to fostering a welcoming, accessible, respectful, and inclusive environment ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities.

Security Requirements

Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with AWN's Information Security policies, standards, processes, and controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of AWN business information.

The base salary range for this job family is 164,000 to 287,000 CAD annually. This range reflects the base pay the company reasonably expects to offer for this position, aligned to the broader job family base pay structure. Actual base pay may vary based on skills, experience, and location, including job family level.