VP Security & Research

Description

About GeoEdge

GeoEdge is the global leader in ad security, trusted by hundreds of the world's top ad platforms, publishers, and app developers. Our mission: make the internet safer by stopping malicious, deceptive, and low-quality ads before they ever reach a user.

For over a decade, we've protected the integrity of the digital advertising ecosystem with real-time technology that empowers our partners to deliver clean, trustworthy user experiences.

The Role

Malvertising attackers are already using AI to hide their campaigns. We're building the detection technology that beats them, and we need a leader who can make it the best in the world. As our VP Security & Research, you'll report directly to the CEO and own GeoEdge's malvertising detection vision, combining deep security research with AI and agentic innovation. You'll lead our security research team, uncover new attack techniques before they reach users, and turn that insight into detection that works in real time at massive scale. You'll build a research agenda that puts GeoEdge on the stage at the world's top security conferences, and partner with Product, R&D, Data Science, Customer Support, and other key functions inside and outside the company to bring it to market. You'll be the security and research voice of GeoEdge for customers, partners, and the wider security community.

What You'll Do

• Set the strategy and roadmap for GeoEdge's malvertising detection and security research
• Lead, mentor, and grow the security research team
• Drive AI and agentic innovation in detection, working with R&D and Data Science to turn research into production-grade capabilities
• Uncover and track emerging malvertising threats, evasion techniques, and attacker campaigns across the ad ecosystem
• Own detection quality: push for uncompromising precision, coverage, and speed
• Drive original research and publications, and represent GeoEdge at leading security conferences
• Partner with Product, R&D, Data Science, Customer Support, and other key functions in the organization and outside of it
• Report to the CEO and management on research impact, threat landscape, and priorities

Requirements

What You Bring

• 8+ years in security, including 3+ in leadership
• A proven research track record: publications, CVEs, conference talks, or technical papers
• Hands-on expertise in AI and agentic systems, with experience applying LLMs, machine learning, and AI agents to real security problems
• Deep understanding of how attackers evade detection, including cloaking, obfuscation, and adversarial use of AI
• Strong background in web security and web technologies (JavaScript, browsers, HTTP/HTTPS)
• Experience in threat research, malware analysis, or detection engineering
• Ability to translate complex research into business impact for executives and customers
• Excellent English; BSc in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Advantages

• Experience building or shipping AI-powered or agentic security products
• Experience in AdTech, digital advertising, or malvertising research
• Background in a cybersecurity product company
• Experience building or leading a security research team
• Alumni of technological or military intelligence units