[Hiring] Field CISO @Flare

Role Description

Flare's research already opens doors. You will own Flare's presence in the sector ISAC ecosystem, serve as a senior public voice on identity-driven threats, and spend real time in the field with customers, prospects, and intelligence-sharing communities.

This is a high-ownership role with broad autonomy. The right person identifies problems independently and drives them to resolution. We can be flexible on the job title for the right candidate.

• Act as a public face of Flare, helping prospects and customers understand why identity is the defining threat of 2026.
• Serve as Flare's primary point of contact across the sector ISACs, contributing research the communities actually use and holding standing as a peer rather than a vendor analyst.
• Stay ahead of emerging and novel threats, and move fast: build talks and briefings on new campaigns while they are still news based on Flare data.
• Join customer and sales calls to help win business, communicating credibly with executive audiences.
• Host weekly threat briefings for our customers on the latest emerging threats.
• Create original research into stealer logs, identity-based threats, dark web and Telegram ecosystems, non-human identity, and emerging attack chains.
• Present that research at conferences, ISAC sessions, and executive briefings, delivering the same finding as board-level risk to a CISO and as tradecraft to practitioners without losing either room.
• Partner with marketing and sales so the research and relationships generate brand and pipeline as a second-order effect.
• Travel extensively. This role lives in the field, with a heavy conference and working-group calendar.

Qualifications

• You already hold trust and standing in one or more sector ISACs.
• You have real, hands-on technical depth in the cybercrime ecosystem: stealer logs, credential and identity threats, underground forums and markets, and the actors and infrastructure behind them.
• You have 10+ years of experience in law enforcement, senior intelligence or security leadership roles.
• You have a track record of original research and a public footprint: published work, conference presentations, media citations.
• You bring threat intelligence experience from a cybersecurity vendor, government cyber, or established independent research.
• You value feedback, embrace radical candor, and are motivated to continually improve.
• You are comfortable with structured processes but thrive in the ambiguity of a startup ("building the plane as it's flying") while holding a high bar for defensible, first-to-market work.

Requirements

• Sector specialization that complements rather than duplicates our existing coverage (healthcare, financial services, retail).
• History of working closely with product, marketing, or customer success to bring threat insights into strategy.
• Deep threat intelligence or cybercrime experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Bonus tied to research impact, brand, and pipeline outcomes, not individual deals
• Stock options
• Insurance coverage
• Flexible, work-from-anywhere policy
• Unlimited vacation
• Fun company events

What success looks like

• First 30 days:
  • You are fluent in Flare's data and identity-threat coverage, and can run a full platform demo for any audience, practitioner or executive.
  • You have identified several research directions worth pursuing and pressure-tested them with our research team.
  • You have sat in on customer and sales calls to absorb how Flare positions and where deals are won and lost.
  • You have contributed to identifying or responding to one emerging threat.
  • You meaningfully contribute ideas on how Flare could improve its positioning.
• First 60 days:
  • Your first original research effort is in flight, with a publication and presentation plan behind it.
  • You have made your first contribution to an ISAC working group or briefing on Flare's behalf.
  • You have conducted your first weekly threat briefing for Flare customers and prospects.
  • You are actively supporting sales and customer calls rather than observing them.
  • You have a working cadence with marketing so research output feeds brand and pipeline without you touching a quota.
• First 90 days:
  • You have published or presented your first significant piece of research under the Flare banner.
  • You have agreed on a 6-to-12-month research and field agenda with leadership, with coverage territory that is clearly yours.
  • Early second-order signals are visible: inbound interest, media pickup, or pipeline influenced by your work.