R&D Director

• Oversee the design, development, maintenance and deployment of cutting-edge cloud based email security products and features, serving tens of thousands of global enterprise customers.
• Ensure products meet market needs and regulatory requirements while maintaining the highest security and coding standards.
• Ensure products are developed in the most cost effective manner, deployed over multiple regions utilizing cutting edge cloud infrastructure and technologies.
• Ensure products are robust, built to scale and support dynamic architecture changes for fast growing changing environments.
• Ensure product is fully monitored at the highest level 24/7 by actively implementing a reliable monitoring system across multiple domains and regions.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a growing high-performing R&D team of over 50 high skill professionals, across the globe. including group and team leaders, software engineers, data scientists, and cybersecurity experts.
• Foster collaboration and cross-functional integration between R&D, product management, customer success, and other departments.
• Manage our R&D team building. Recruit and support extending our R&D ever growing team to catch up with product growth.
• Monitor and report on R&D performance metrics and project progress to the executive team.

• Drive research initiatives to explore new technologies, threats, and opportunities in cloud, AI/ML and email security.
• Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends, emerging threats, and competitive landscape.
• Drive innovation through threat modeling, prototyping, and validating emerging technologies.

• Ensure rigorous testing and validation processes to guarantee the reliability, performance, and security of products.
• Implement best practices for software development and quality assurance utilizing advanced automation technologies.
• Implement full system monitroing to assure production top availability and performance.

• Develop and implement the R&D strategy in alignment with the company's product vision and business objectives.
• Adopt AI/ML to enhance threat detection, anomaly detection, and behavior analysis for better email security.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and excellence within the R&D team.
• Manage and mentor cross-functional teams of researchers, engineers, and data scientists.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and technical excellence.

• Manage the R&D budget, ensuring effective allocation of resources to projects and initiatives.
• Manage email security cloud cost and drive cloud cost optimization initiatives and activities.

• Deep understanding of cloud bases SaaS architecture and implementation, with specific vast experience with AWS infrastructure and various AWS managed services.
• Experience with development of multi-tenant lareg scale complex systems, utilizing microservices , ontainers and serverless computing, implemented with Python, Go, Angular, React and underlying technologies.
• Experience with development of AI/ML based solutions.
• Experience with secure software development practices, adhering to global regulation SOC, PCI etc'.
• Deep understanding of security technologies (Email Security - Advantage), threat detection, and prevention mechanisms.
• Strong leadership and team management skills with the ability to inspire and drive a diverse global team.
• Excellent strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in R&D, with at least 5 years Experience with driving large R&D groups, managing multiple global teams using agile development methods (Security and Email security industry - Advantage).
• Prior experience with development and management of high scale, innovative cloud based SaaS. used by thousands of global enterprise customers.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.

• Advanced degree preferred (MS/PhD) in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical field.
• Industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, GIAC, CCSP) are a plus.
• Deep understanding of email security threats: phishing, spoofing, malware, BEC, ransomware.
• Familiarity with cloud-based email platforms: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and various email gateways.
• Proficiency with email authentication and security protocols: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, S/MIME, TLS.

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