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# Manager, Cyber Research at Axonius

- **Company:** Axonius
- **Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel
- **Posted:** 2026-08-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://www.axonius.com/company/careers/open-jobs?gh_jid=7832402003

## Job description

The Security Research Team powers Axonius Exposures by designing the analytical, exposure management, and data pipelines that drive product capabilities, including risk scoring, data modeling, and LLM-driven reasoning. Operating in close partnership with Product and Engineering, team members own projects end-to-end from problem definition to validated production prototypes. We are seeking a Group Manager to lead, mentor, and grow this team while driving portfolio prioritization, technical rigor, and cross-functional execution across complex cybersecurity and data-heavy initiatives.

## Responsibilities

- Manage, coach, and grow a team of 4 to 8 security researchers, taking direct accountability for hiring, performance management, and research output quality.

- Drive cross-functional delivery with Product and Engineering leaders, translating business requirements into clear research scope, project timelines, and scalable production prototypes.

- Review and critically evaluate complex technical approaches, including data pipeline architecture, exposure/risk scoring logic, mitigation strategies, and LLM pipeline designs (prompting, retrieval, evaluation).

- Lead project portfolio prioritization and represent the team's research roadmap and value metrics directly to executive leadership with minimal top-level intervention.

## Minimum Qualifications

- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in cybersecurity, specifically within vulnerability research, exposure/risk scoring, threat intelligence, or adjacent domains.

- Minimum 2 years of direct people management experience leading teams of security researchers or software engineers.

- Hands-on proficiency with Python and SQL for research validation, prototyping, and data analysis.

- Proven track record of cross-functional collaboration with Product and Engineering to ship research-backed data pipelines or cybersecurity capabilities into commercial software products.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Hands-on experience designing, testing, or deploying LLM-based systems, including retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, and model evaluation metrics.

- Demonstrated experience developing risk scoring models, normalizations, and mitigation strategies across EDR data sources and vulnerability frameworks.

- Experience scaling research teams from mid-size to larger organizational structures while defining operational success metrics.

- Strong technical architecture background with the ability to define handoff specifications for engineering productionization without requiring hands-on daily coding.

- Prior experience in high-growth, enterprise B2B SaaS or cybersecurity vendors.

- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.

## #LI-HYBRID #LI-AZ1

About Axonius:

Axonius transforms cyber asset intelligence into actionability. With the Axonius Asset Cloud, customers preemptively tackle high-risk and hard-to-spot threat exposures, misconfigurations, and overspending. The integrated platform brings together data from every system in an organization’s IT infrastructure to optimize mission-critical risk, performance, and cost measures via actionable intelligence.

Covering cyber assets, software, SaaS applications, identities, vulnerabilities, infrastructure, and more, Axonius is the one place to go for Security, IT, and GRC teams to continuously drive actionability across the organization. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius supports millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world.

Axonius makes it a priority to invest in our people with competitive compensation and benefits, growth opportunities, community-building, and so much more. Learn more about [benefits at Axonius](https://www.axonius.com/company/careers#benefits-and-perks).

At Axonius we support a diverse and inclusive workplace and believe in equal employment opportunity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.

Axonius participates in E-Verify. To learn more, please review the https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf and the https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/IER_RightToWorkPoster%20Eng_Es.pdf. By submitting your application to us, you acknowledge that your personal data will be processed in accordance with our [Global Job Candidate Privacy Notice.](https://www.axonius.com/global-job-candidate-privacy-notice)

## About Axonius

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Axonius provides a cybersecurity asset management platform that helps organizations unify visibility across their entire technology footprint to drive action on risk, performance, and cost.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, USA (with major offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; London, UK; and Lisbon, Portugal)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Dean Sysman, Ofri Shur, Avidor Bartov

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity / IT Asset Management / Attack Surface Management
- **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprise Security, IT, and GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) teams
- **Mission/purpose**: “Bring truth to action” – deliver decision-grade asset intelligence that enables teams to continuously optimize the most critical risk, performance, and cost measures.

## Products & Services
- **Axonius Asset Cloud** – SaaS platform that builds a complete, accurate, and always up-to-date model of an organization’s attack surface by connecting to 600+ tools (security, IT, SaaS, cloud, identity). It serves multiple use cases in one place: exposure management, compliance, cost optimization, and security posture improvement.
- **Adapter Network** – A market-leading collection of bidirectional integrations that ingests and correlates data across devices, identities, applications, and infrastructure, giving Axonius a deep data advantage.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (private company; last reported valuation of ~$1.2B in a 2022 Series E round, but this is not confirmed in the provided sources).
- **Key Metric**: Revenue not disclosed; total funding not disclosed in provided materials. The company is recognized as a market leader by analysts and media.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors not specifically named in provided sources; known backers include Bessemer Venture Partners, Stripes, and Lightspeed Venture Partners (external knowledge). The company lists partnerships with major security vendors via its adapter network.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Named to **Forbes Cloud 100** (2025), **Deloitte Technology Fast 500**, **Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies**, and **Fortune Lightspeed Cyber 60**.
  - Awarded **Great Place to Work** and **Fortune Best Workplaces in New York**.
  - 33 active job openings across engineering, product, sales, and support globally.
  - Launched **Axonius Federal Systems** to serve the U.S. federal market.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest Adapter Network** – No other solution matches the breadth and depth of bidirectional integrations, creating a data advantage that enables unified visibility across silos.
- **Unified data model** – One platform covers cyber assets, software, SaaS, identities, and infrastructure, allowing teams to consolidate point solutions.
- **Actionability focus** – The platform doesn’t just show assets; it prioritizes critical actions with context, enabling data-driven decisions aligned to team capacity.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding use cases within the Asset Cloud (exposures, compliance, cost savings) to serve IT, Security, and GRC teams from a single hub.
- Growing the federal business via **Axonius Federal Systems**.
- Investing in AI-driven real-time learning and automation to keep pace with the evolving attack surface.
- Maintaining a remote-first, globally distributed workforce to attract top talent.

## Why Work Here
- **Flexible, remote-first culture** – Employees can work from home, an office, or a coffee shop; “unwind weekends” several times a year.
- **Competitive benefits** – Fully funded health insurance (U.S., Israel, U.K., Portugal), stock options for all full-time employees, equity refresh opportunities, 17 weeks primary caregiver leave, 8 weeks secondary, and individual development budgets.
- **Career growth** – New role opportunities, 1:1 coaching for managers, AI tools for real-time learning, and a focus on feedback.
- **Diversity & Inclusion** – Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for LGBTQ+, Women, Veterans, Mental Health, Hispanic Latinx, Black, and Family communities.
- **Award-winning workplace** – Great Place to Work certified, Fortune Best Workplaces in NY, Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers.
- **Global team** – Offices in New York, Tel Aviv, London, and Lisbon, with a strong sense of community and shared values.

## Sources
1. [Axonius.com](https://www.axonius.com/)
2. [Who We Are | Axonius](https://www.axonius.com/company)
3. [Careers | Axonius](https://www.axonius.com/company/careers)
4. [Open Jobs | Axonius](https://www.axonius.com/company/careers/open-jobs)
5. [Leadership | Axonius](https://www.axonius.com/company/leadership)

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