[Hiring] Threat Intelligence Manager, Ecosystem Threats @Apple

Role Description

Apple’s Security Engineering & Architecture (SEAR) provides operating system security foundations across all of Apple’s innovative products, including Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.

As part of our efforts to protect our users, Apple is looking for a world-class threat intelligence manager to lead a team of security researchers and threat intelligence analysts. This team works together and cross-functionally to drive efforts to solve security engineering challenges, with an emphasis on supporting decisions that provide the greatest long-term security. The success we are striving for is the result of very skilled people working in an environment that cultivates creativity, partnership, and solving old problems in new ways.

Protecting over a billion endpoints. Operationalizing security research and threat intelligence into security engineering decisions affecting every layer of the stack. Touching the lives of everyone who interacts with our products. Working for a company whose commitment to user privacy is at the heart of everything it does. Being surrounded by the most creative, passionate, hardworking engineers in the industry. Constantly being challenged to go beyond the norm to find new, innovative ways of solving problems and to make software safer, easier, and more fun to use. You can find all of this in one opportunity, and only at Apple.

• Coordinate and distill team’s input into development of security technologies.
• Lead efforts to analyze and understand advanced cyber actors, capabilities, and techniques.
• Collaborate with fellow managers to contextualize cyber threat intelligence for decision-makers and work cooperatively to drive solutions.
• Work with security engineers, project managers, and engineering managers in designing innovative mitigations to cyber threats while preserving privacy, ease-of-use, and user experience.
• Work closely with external partners in support of cyber threat intelligence activities.
• Remote work, with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Management experience on a security or threat intelligence team.
• Significant prior experience conducting threat research.
• Expert-level understanding of the threat intelligence cycle and cyber operations.
• A clear communicator (verbal and in-writing), who can adapt their communication styles to match their audience (technical vs. non-technical).

Requirements

• Intellectually curious team player with a genuine passion for leading people and building teams.
• Demonstrated creative, critical, and independent thinking capabilities and troubleshooting skills.
• Deep responsibility and drive to protect users from security threats, with a respect for their privacy and the balance we are committed to striking here at Apple.
• Growth mindset, thrives in fast-paced, changing environment.
• Honest about their limitations - it’s ok to not know something as long as you are forthcoming with it and eager to learn more.
• Ability to distill complex problems into manageable tasks and then work with team to drive those tasks to completion.
• Some knowledge of macOS internals.
• Impeccable attention to detail.