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Our mission: make the internet safer by stopping malicious, deceptive, and low-quality ads before they ever reach a user.\nFor 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.\nThe Role\nMalvertising 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. 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You'll be the security and research voice of GeoEdge for customers, partners, and the wider security community.\nWhat You'll Do\nSet the strategy and roadmap for GeoEdge's malvertising detection and security research\nLead, mentor, and grow the security research team\nDrive AI and agentic innovation in detection, working with R&D and Data Science to turn research into production-grade capabilities\nUncover and track emerging malvertising threats, evasion techniques, and attacker campaigns across the ad ecosystem\nOwn detection quality: push for uncompromising precision, coverage, and speed\nDrive original research and publications, and represent GeoEdge at leading security conferences\nPartner with Product, R&D, Data Science, Customer Support, and other key functions in the organization and outside of it\nReport to the CEO and management on research impact, threat landscape, and priorities\nRequirements\nWhat You Bring\n8+ years in security, including 3+ in leadership\nA proven research track record: publications, CVEs, conference talks, or technical papers\nHands-on expertise in AI and agentic systems, with experience applying LLMs, machine learning, and AI agents to real security problems\nDeep understanding of how attackers evade detection, including cloaking, obfuscation, and adversarial use of AI\nStrong background in web security and web technologies (JavaScript, browsers, HTTP/HTTPS)\nExperience in threat research, malware analysis, or detection engineering\nAbility to translate complex research into business impact for executives and customers\nExcellent English; 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