Director, Information Technology

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Why Red Canary

Red Canary was founded to make security for every business better by protecting organizations around the world from cyber threats. Our combination of market defining technology, processes, and expertise delivered using an innovative SaaS model is preventing breaches every day.

Red Canary is relentless in our focus to enable our customers to make their largest impact, and this starts at home. The Information Technology team at Red Canary is focused on delivering critical services and support that enable our teams to best serve our customers.

Why You Matter

Red Canary consists of a growing number of dynamic teams doing meaningful work fast. Enabling these teams to deliver quality outcomes for our customers and organization is of the utmost importance, while also delivering the same white glove service that we expect from our customer-facing teams. This is the core mission of the Information Technology team.

You will mature Red Canary’s Information Technology program to responsively deliver a growing catalog of technology services to support a fast-moving engineering-heavy company, while simultaneously providing a class of customer experience on par with other obsessively customer focused companies such as Disney, and Southwest Airlines.

The program you will lead is laser focused on enabling the business, with an emphasis on continuous improvement based on metrics, business intelligence, and customer feedback.

Who You Are

You are passionate about business enablement and building solutions that people love using. You collaborate with others across the business, engaging with individual contributors and leadership across the business for opportunities to serve. You enjoy measuring what matters, and continuously seeking opportunities to improve.

You understand the value of clear and concise written communications, whether responding to customer questions, explaining the nuances of a technical solution, or communicating a strategic vision. You believe that better security outcomes come through good IT hygiene, and can strike a balance between enablement and keeping the company and our customers safe.

The ideal candidate has demonstrated success building and directing high-performing IT support teams, with the ability to step into the trenches to provide technical leadership when called upon. A strategic understanding of customer experience, service delivery, and operational best practices is required.

What You'll Do

  • Operate as a part of the Red Canary leadership team to understand business priorities, strategic direction, and how that affects IT priorities.
  • Engage directly with internal customers to build relationships and act as an escalation point to ensure quality and customer satisfaction.
  • Build and support a growing services catalog that elegantly and proactively support the dynamic needs of the business.
  • Mentor and coach direct and indirect reports, providing advice for performance improvements and career guidance.
  • Guide the team to deliver exceptional support, ensuring thoughtful and consistent voice in both verbal and written communications.
  • Select and implement the right tools and data to increase the effectiveness of your customers and team.
  • Manage resources to ensure that high-value tasks are prioritized and completed.

Benefits at Red Canary

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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