Senior Technical Engagement Manager

HackerOne is the global leader in human-powered security, harnessing the creativity of the world’s largest community of security researchers with cutting-edge AI to protect your digital assets. The HackerOne Platform combines the expertise of our elite community and the most up-to-date vulnerability database to pinpoint critical security flaws across your attack surface. Our integrated solutions, including bug bounty, pentesting, code security audits, spot checks, and AI red teaming, ensure continuous vulnerability discovery and management throughout the software development lifecycle. Trusted by industry leaders such as Coinbase, General Motors, GitHub, Goldman Sachs, Hyatt, PayPal, and the U.S. Department of Defense, HackerOne was named a Best Workplace for Innovators by Fast Company in 2023 and a Most Loved Workplace for Young Professionals in 2024.

HackerOne is looking for a Senior Technical Engagement Manager to join our team and help some of our largest customers run their hacker-powered security assessments. This role entails the comprehensive management of HackerOne Assessment projects, including interfacing with clients and leading internal initiatives to bolster HackerOne Assessments' capabilities. As a Senior Technical Engagement Manager, you are the owner of end-to-end delivery of HackerOne Assessment engagements. You will work closely with customers to scope, plan, source, schedule, and report on security assessment engagements. You will be an active participant in strategic business decision-making and ownership in establishing security testing standards to expand the capabilities of HackerOne Assessments. 

This is a technical delivery role and reports directly into the Senior Manager, Technical Engagements.

At HackerOne, we embrace a Flexible Work approach, enabling our team members to work remotely while maintaining productivity and collaboration. We are seeking candidates located in Seattle WA, Austin TX or Washington D.C., and the surrounding metropolitan areas, to facilitate occasional in-person interactions as needed. While the position is primarily remote, there will be periodic in-person requirements to support team collaboration and foster stronger connections. This approach ensures flexibility while providing opportunities to build meaningful in-person relationships that strengthen our team and company culture.

• You will lead the effective and efficient delivery of large, complex security engagements. These including HackerOne Pentests, HackerOne Challenges, and Code Security Audits.

• Scope technical engagements based on customer and testing needs.

• Find creative solutions to conduct optimal security testing in the face of situationally unique limitations.

• Train and educate your teammates on your security specializations and expertise.

• Develop testing program plans for HackerOne technical engagements that align with customer goals and drive desired outcomes and results.

• Maintain, enhance and develop testing methodologies for various different types of attack surfaces.

• Represent HackerOne’s Assessment delivery process and methodologies to customers’ business leaders and executives.

• Build relationships with key stakeholders both internally and within customer organizations 

• Source engagements from an extensive and growing network of world-class security talent.

• Work independently to manage multiple customer engagements in different delivery phases, alongside developing scalable efficiencies.

• Ensuring quality and technical accuracy for all customer deliverables produced during an engagement.

• Present technical findings and vulnerability details to our customers’ business stakeholders during wrap-up calls.

• Maintain accurate activity documentation and communication with cross-functional teams.

• 5+ years information security industry experience in penetration testing or similar security assessment work

• 3+ years in a customer-facing role in cybersecurity

• You are a passionate expert in cybersecurity and have security testing specializations and expertise

• A background in ethical hacking/pentesting on bug bounty programs

• Comfortable working cross functionally with the common goal of customer value driving interactions 

• Expertise in various penetration testing methodologies

• Possess an energy for change and default to action vs. inaction

• A desire to mentor colleagues and collaborate with leaders inside and outside immediate team

• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical concepts into language that is understood by non-technical audiences

• Motivation to achieve company wide OKRs and KPIs with ownership of results

• In addition to standard HackerOne background check requirements, the applicant must be comfortable with undergoing additional FBI background checks and fingerprinting to satisfy a specific requirement for one of our largest Fed/SLED customers. 

• Experience with SLED/FED accounts

• Public contributions to and/or achievements in the security community (CVEs, bug bounty recognitions, maintainer of open source tooling)

• Relevant offensive security certifications (eg: OSCP, OSCE, CEH, CompTIA Security+)

Compensation Bands:
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Tier B: $130K – $160K • Offers Equity

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Job Benefits:

• Health (medical, vision, dental), life, and disability insurance*

• Equity stock options

• Retirement plans

• Paid public holidays and unlimited PTO

• Paid maternity and parental leave

• Leaves of absence (including caregiver leave and leave under CO's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Flexible Work Stipend

*Eligibility may differ by country

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HackerOne commits to maintaining a strong, inclusive culture built for our employees and our community of hackers. We are driven by our five core values. We recognize that our mission is bigger than us, and therefore act with integrity at all times. As a team, we believe that transparency builds trust so we default to disclosure in our communications. Each individual executes with excellence, creating an environment of greater alignment and greater autonomy. We win as a team and respect all people to empower everyone to learn from each other, innovate, and grow.