Job Description

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission has been to stop breaches, and we have redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe, and their lives moving forward. We are a mission-driven company that cultivates a culture of flexibility and autonomy, empowering every CrowdStriker to own their careers. We are seeking talented individuals with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation, and a fanatical commitment to our customers, community, and each other.

About the Role

The CTO organization includes a team of Technical Strategy leaders who bring outstanding ideas, execution capabilities, and teamwork to a strategic, high future impact organization. The primary responsibility of this role is to help develop the company’s roadmap, technical vision, and strategy for our Endpoint Security Product Group.

This role requires deep technical knowledge in cybersecurity, specifically in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint telemetry, response workflows, and a functional understanding of actual real-world deployments, extended use-cases, and customer motivations. This role is part of the CTO organization.

What You'll Do

• Drive CrowdStrike’s technical vision and strategy with your extensive cybersecurity background and ability to think and operate at a strategic level.
• Engage in the development of CrowdStrike’s long-range strategic vision and facilitate the entry of new security technology concepts to market to position CrowdStrike as the thought leader for Cybersecurity.
• Work with Product Management and Engineering to make key decisions on short/medium-term roadmaps as well as long-term multi-year strategy.
• Engage with field sales, strategic accounts, customer success, and other stakeholders to research product ideas, pain points, obstacles, and market opportunities.
• Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to the product.
• Help develop frameworks for aggregating multiple sources of information to streamline and expedite data-driven decision-making.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of the cybersecurity industry, competitors, and related developments to ensure we continue to be innovative thought leaders.
• Provide support to the wider CTO organization, including the Falcon Fund, Privacy & Cyber Policy, Data Science and Detection Architecture teams, as well as the broader CrowdStrike organization as needed.

What You’ll Need

• Real-world experience with endpoint security, management, and testing tools for threat hunting, vulnerability detection, risk analysis, or compliance validation.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in the cybersecurity or endpoint software development market with a heavy emphasis on security visibility and insights.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience. Ideal candidates will have experience in at least TWO of the following: sales engineer/pre-sales, competitive intelligence, solution architect, sales operations, product management, technical marketing, professional services, research & development, and technical support.
• Hands-on experience with products (either designing, evaluating/testing, or in production).
• Superior communication skills, including experience presenting to senior & executive-level management.
• Excellent people and project management skills to manage projects and interact/build rapport with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams, and third parties.

Bonus Points

• Direct experience with customers (as a customer, or in a customer support or field role).