Manager, Adversary Intelligence

Manager, Adversary Intelligence

SailPoint’s Cybersecurity organization is seeking an Adversary Intelligence Manager with a passion for cybersecurity and protecting the organization. In a strategic move to elevate our Cyber Defense Operations, we are combining our Red Team and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) functions into a single, unified Adversary Intelligence team. This team will strategically sit adjacent to our Security Operations Center (SOC) within the Cyber Defense Operations org. The successful candidate will lead this newly combined organization, uplifting our offensive and intelligence capabilities to continually test the security of our products, enterprise, and response readiness.

This new leader will partner closely with our Security Operations Center (SOC) to drive threat-informed defensive measures and ensure seamless collaboration across our Cyber Defense Operations organization. We’re seeking a candidate with proven technical capabilities who can work on both the enterprise and application sides of the house, while pushing the boundaries of innovation. A key focus for this role will be pioneering the use of AI and agentic capabilities to automate, scale, and enhance adversary emulation, threat hunting, and intelligence analysis.

Our new Adversary Intelligence Manager will embrace the opportunity to work across diverse platforms and will play a key role in shaping our future security posture. They’ll work with an established team of talented and dedicated teammates, guiding both emerging and established talent. They’ll naturally embody the 4 I’s at SailPoint (Individual, Impact, Innovation, and Integrity), embrace new challenges, and be a positive contributor to an already excellent work culture and environment.

This is a challenging and impactful role where you will have the opportunity to work with both internal and external stakeholders, including our fantastic colleagues in IT, DevOps, Product Engineering, Security Engineering, and the wider Cyber Security team.

This role reports directly to the Sr. Director of Cyber Defense Operations and can be remote or based in Austin, TX.

Responsibilities

• Lead Unified Program: Direct the unified intelligence collection, analysis, and adversary emulation programs, ensuring CTI directly informs and shapes targeted red team campaigns.

• Pioneer AI & Agentic Innovation: Architect and implement AI-driven and agentic automation workflows to scale threat intelligence collection, synthesize unstructured threat data, and dynamically execute emulation playbooks.

• SOC Partnership & Purple Teaming: Co-design collaborative purple-team exercises and continuous feedback loops with the SOC and Attack Surface Management (ASM) teams to rapidly translate offensive findings into robust detection engineering rules