Continuous Improvement Specialist

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Who We Are

Red Canary was founded to create a world where every organization can make its greatest impact without fear of cyber attack. Our combination of market-defining technology, processes, and expertise are preventing breaches every day. We are completely changing the way security is delivered and setting the new standard for security. If our mission resonates with you, let’s talk!


What We Believe In

- Do what’s right for the customer

- Be kind and authentic

- Deliver great quality

- Be relentless


Challenges You Will Solve 

As we bring to life a world where every company can achieve their mission without fear of cyber attack, our niche is in security operations. This demands that we must ourselves be exceptionally great at the operations needed to serve our customers.


As a Continuous Improvement Leader, you will have a critical role in building and spreading a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement at Red Canary. This includes partnering with teams across the organization to help analyze, guide and consult on refining processes and systems to help ensure effective operations. You will also grow this culture by training team members in continuous improvement methodologies. Through your leadership, analytical skills, innovation, and teaching abilities, you will help Red Canary achieve its objectives. 

What You'll Do

  • Lead and support Operational Excellence initiatives throughout the organization by understanding the processes, finding opportunities, and developing improvements.
  • Use and guide teams through operational excellence process improvement tools to understand current state gaps and root causes, and then identify and communicate design requirements for solutions, both process and technology related.
  • Develop and participate in strong, cross functional teams across organization departments to find opportunities to achieve company objectives.
  • Proficiently own, lead, and complete projects toward objectives within areas directed.
  • Train and coach project team members in continuous improvement tools and methodologies to develop a company culture of operational excellence.
  • Support project initiatives by providing technical, statistical, data, and time observation analysis to inform solutions.
  • Create and document standards of work based on identified process improvements.

What You'll Bring

  • 3+ years of experience with process improvement, operational excellence, lean, or 6 sigma.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Quickly able to learn and understand new processes and systems.
  • Able to methodically identify problems and opportunities and then create solutions.
  • Self-motivated and proactive.
  • Experience with training and coaching teams in operational excellence methodologies.
  • Experience leading teams through identifying and resolving complex issues, and implementing solutions to resolve problems.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, or related field, preferred
  • Experience working within a technology company, preferred

Targeted base salary range: $75,000-$100,000 + bonus eligibility and equity depending on experience.


Why Red Canary?

Red Canary is where people embody our mission to improve security outcomes for all. People work hard to maintain a culture that encourages authenticity in order to do your best work. Our people are driven and committed to finding the best security outcomes, delivering real and actionable answers, and being transparent along the way. 


At Red Canary, we offer a very rich benefits program to our full-time team members so they can focus on their families and improving our customers’ security. For a full list of benefits, please review our Benefits Summary:

https://redcanary.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Benefit-Summary-Red-Canary.pdf 


Individuals seeking employment at Red Canary are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Sales & Marketing
  • People Operations
    • GolangLanguages
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • RubyLanguages
    • RustLanguages
    • SqlLanguages
    • jQueryLibraries
    • ReactLibraries
    • ReduxLibraries
    • Ruby on RailsFrameworks
    • PostgreSQLDatabases
    • RedisDatabases
    • WordpressCMS
    • HubSpotCRM
    • SalesforceCRM
    • SlackCollaboration
    • ZoomCollaboration
    • AsanaProject Management
    • BasecampProject Management

Location

Our state-of-the-art HQ is located in the brand new McGregor Square centered in Denver's historic LoDo. From inception we have been hybrid workforce.

An Insider's view of Red Canary

What's something quirky about your company?

On a quarterly basis, we have a companywide gathering that we affectionately call BEASTMODE. It’s a great opportunity for “Canaries” from across the country to come together, level-set on the state of the business, get to know each other better, and build a close knit community trying to make a positive impact on the world.

Dave

Director, Customer Success

What projects are you most excited about?

The Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) reached the milestone of 10,000 spec/unit tests to validate our detection logic, an indicator of how diligently we maintain our detectors. Continued validation that everything is working as anticipated is key to ensuring a successful security program.

Joe

VP, Customer Security Operations

What makes someone successful on your team?

Curiosity. If you are asking questions, building on what you just learned, and relating it to something known, then you are truly curious about what you’re learning and you will become an expert.

Diane

Director of Product Support

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

As we continue to grow and add specialized focus across digital media, video, and an even more robust content program, I want the team to be able to take all the great insights and educational pieces and recommendations and make it easy for people to find them, understand them, and implement them. To be able to use what we’re doing in marketing in

Brianne

Director, Marketing

What does career growth look like on your team?

Customer Solutions Engineers possess a blended skillset that intersects business, security and technical. Team members can grow within their role or continue to develop their talents into positions such as technical account manager, security architect, and evangelist.

Robbie

Director, Customer Solutions Engineering

What are Red Canary Perks + Benefits

Red Canary Benefits Overview

Exceptional healthcare, dental, and vision coverage including fully paid premiums
Unlimited PTO
401k and flex-spending accounts, including an employer-funded HRA
100% employer paid long and short term disability
Monthly stipend for personal fitness and cell phone

Culture
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Mandated unconscious bias training
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
We provide up to 8 weeks of parental leave for new parents.
Family medical leave
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Employees receive 80 hours per year of paid sick leave.
Flexible time off
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Free snacks and drinks
Company-sponsored happy hours
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education available during work hours
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

Annual company all-hands meeting where we bring in all of our remote team members to build camaraderie, align and learn.

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