Head of Insider Threat

About the company

Robinhood is democratizing finance for all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers, removing fees, and providing greater access to financial information. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.  

Robinhood is a fast-growing company and was recognized as a CNBC Disruptor 50 and a LinkedIn Top Startup in 2019. We’re continuing to grow and are looking for incredible talent that can help us achieve our mission.

Robinhood is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with offices in Lake Mary, Florida and Denver, Colorado.

About the role

Robinhood’s Security Team is looking for a stellar Engineering Manager to build and lead our Insider Threat team. 

The Insider Threat team is focused on protecting, detecting, and responding to and from internal threats to Robinhood data and systems. The team identifies malicious and accidental misuse of otherwise legitimate access to data from people inside the company.

We investigate across a broad spectrum of threats and abuse including abuse of personal data, intellectual property, and leaks of sensitive information. We collaborate across our security engineering and business teams to build detection capabilities and analyze how abuse happens so that we can stay ahead of those who are interested in misusing access. 

The Insider Threat team is looking for a leader who is deeply passionate about this critical function of the Security industry to provide technical mentorship and vision to drive this critical team. 

Your day-to-day will involve:

• Lead a team of security engineers and analysts to develop solutions to hunt, detect, and respond to internal threats
• Work with technical leads to set the direction for infrastructure, process, and standards
• Provide technical expertise and leadership in threat hunting, incident response, forensics, security analysis, and security engineering
• Build, cultivate and maintain positive relationships with internal customers to identify and facilitate solutions to increase the impact of the team's work
• Work with cross-functional business, product, analytics, and engineering leaders to negotiate, plan, and execute on a roadmap for the Insider Threat team
• Mentor and grow the members of your team for their immediate and long-term careers
• Recruit top-tier talent at all levels of seniority
• Nurturing the team, providing outlets for support when confronting offensive, profane, and obscene materials 
• Work with Technical Program Managers and Technical Writers to develop documentation of Insider Threat landscape 
• Be the face of and subject matter expert for the services for your team provides to the legal, people, compliance, and executive teams

Some things we consider critical for this role:

• 3 years+ of experience in engineering management
• 6+ years experience in insider threat / abuse domain
• Exceptional integrity and emotional intelligence  
• Experience leading operational teams 
• Experience developing and delivering information on program status for executive leadership

Bonus points: 

• Experience in the Financial Sector 

We’re looking for more growth-minded and collaborative people to be a part of our journey in democratizing finance for all. If you’re ready to give 100% in helping us achieve our mission—we’d love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Robinhood, we're looking for people invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

Robinhood promotes diversity and provides equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We are dedicated to building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work (and work environment) will be for everyone. Additionally, Robinhood provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights. To review Robinhood's Privacy Policy please visit rbnhd.co/applicant-privacy.

Robinhood's benefits include generous time off, 401(k) participation with employer match, comprehensive health coverage, a health savings account (HSA), wellness benefits, backup childcare and education stipends (all benefits are subject to applicable taxes and based on eligibility).