Director, Threat Detection & Response

Director, Threat Detection & Response North- Remote, US North is seeking a Director of Threat Detection and Response to serve as a key cybersecurity and technical leader. You will be responsible for defining the strategy and building the capabilities of our Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting, and Cyber Threat Intelligence. As the leader of this highly technical group, you will oversee the prevention, detection, and response to complex cybersecurity threats targeting North's payment processing infrastructure. You will manage a team of deeply experienced experts, ensuring the team maintains the highest technical standards in cloud, network, endpoint, and identity security, while acting as the ultimate escalation point for executive leadership during critical incidents. What you'll do: Serve as the senior incident commander and ultimate escalation point during major, high-severity security incidents. Direct the organization's incident response strategy, ensuring rapid triage, containment, eradication, and recovery across endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and application layers. Oversee comprehensive digital forensics and root cause analysis, driving cross-team remediation of systemic gaps and mitigating fraud or financial loss. Direct the strategy for detection engineering, ensuring the team develops, tunes, and validates high-fidelity detection logic. Lead proactive, hypothesis-driven threat hunting programs based on incident trends and the MITRE ATT