Director, Threat Research

Why N-able

At N-able, we’re not just helping businesses be secure —we’re redefining what it means to be cyber resilient. Our end-to-end platform blends AI-powered capabilities and flexible tech stacks, so customers can manage, secure, and recover with confidence. But the real power behind it all? Our people. We’re a global crew of N-ablites, who love solving complex problems, sharing knowledge, and delivering solutions that actually make a difference. If you're into meaningful work, fast growth, and a team that’s got your back, you’ll be surrounded by people who believe in what they do—and in you.

N-able is looking for a Director of Threat Research to join us on the journey of growth! Our vision is to enable the digital evolution of small and medium size businesses. We believe that by putting our people, partners, and products first that we will be able to continue the growth of our business.

The N-able team is looking someone to lead the threat research program supporting our cybersecurity transformation. This role reports directly to our CSO and is focused on overseeing our threat research programs including data collection and analysis, customer advisories, reverse engineering, threat detection, and adversary emulation.

This position will foster relationships with leaders across the business and divisions while collaborating with partners in security, legal, risk, compliance, and technology groups. He/she will also oversee a variety of cybersecurity activities including the monitoring of the N-able corporate and product environments, incident response preparedness, cyber threat hunting and cyber operations.

What You'll Do

• Lead and manage a global team of high performing threat researchers, engineers and data scientists, supporting both products as well as internal N-able security
• Responsible for driving operations around threat data collection, analysis and dissemination to our products, customers and internal teams
• Maintain expert knowledge of APT, ransomware and major cybercrime TTPs
• Track active campaigns from major threat actors against public, private and government entities
• Oversee the creation and publication of intelligence reports and share with the security research community through Adlumin partnerships
• Leverage both internal and external data sources to extract strategic, operational and tactical intelligence
• Owns and drives development of new threat detection capabilities for evolving actor TTP’s
• Delivers customer briefings on the ever-changing threat landscape
• Expert translating highly technical topics into more easily consumable and understandable customer deliverables
• Oversees threat hunting activities
• Make recommendations on tools, technologies, and personnel needs to support the growing demands of the Adlumin services.
• Performs all aspects of employee development, working to ensure employee growth and retention.
• Develops and maintains employee development plans
• Responsible for ensuring spending is within budget allocation

What You'll Bring

• 7-10 years of technical cybersecurity experience in Threat Analysis, Incident Response, Security Operations, Data Collection, Threat Hunting, etc.
• Extensive experience analyzing actor tradecraft and TTPS
• Expert understanding of MITRE ATT&CK and DeTT&CT frameworks
• Experience analyzing malware, identifying Indicators of Compromise (IOC) and TTPs of various threat actors through the analysis of email, malware, end-point, network, etc.
• Convey complicated technical analysis to internal and external stakeholders via reports, investigation synopses, graphical depictions of attacks, and comprehensive presentations
• Responsive to challenging tasking
• Attention to detail
• Ability to document and explain technical details in a concise and understandable manner
• Strong sense of ownership and driven to manage tasks to completion
• Proven ability to think strategically and to translate strategic directives into tactical initiatives.
• Demonstrated exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with people in a wide range of positions and levels.

Purple Perks

What do we offer you?

• Medical, dental and vision – for employee, partner, and children!
• Generous PTO and observed holidays
• 2 Paid VoluNteer Days per year
• Pension Plan with company-contribution
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Discounted gym access at several local facilities
• FuN-raising opportunities as part of our giving program
• N-ablite Learning – custom learning experience as part of our investment in you
• The Way We Work – our hybrid working model based on trust and flexibility

About N-able

At N-able , our mission is to protect businesses against evolving cyberthreats with an end-to-end cyber resilience platform to manage, secure, and recover. Our scalable technology infrastructure includes AI-powered capabilities, market-leading third-party integrations, and the flexibility to employ technologies of choice—to transform workflows and deliver critical security outcomes. Our partner-first approach combines our products with experts, training, and peer-led events that empower our customers to be secure, resilient, and successful.