This role pays more than
99%
of similar roles. Most pay
$147,500–$205,825
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$403k
versus about
$177k
for comparable roles.
Based on 239 similar postings.
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About Elastic
Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). It sells search, observability, and security products built on that search engine, primarily through its Elastic Cloud managed service.
Elastic currently has
240 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$133,100–$210,600
across 91 roles with salary data.
VP, Threat Research - Security Intelligence serves as a senior individual contributor leader within the Elastic Security team. This high-visibility role involves owning the research agenda for what the platform detects, prevents, and publishes while acting as the public face of the organization's work. The successful candidate will define priorities across detection engineering, threat research, endpoint protections, and security ML to shape the technical roadmap. Key responsibilities include overseeing malware analysis, ransomware protection, and AI-driven security capabilities while managing the publishing strategy for Elastic Security Labs. The role requires deep expertise in threat research, detection engineering, and security ML to address modern threat detection challenges. Candidates must possess strong communication skills to engage with customers, analysts, and the press. Technical focus areas include SIEM, endpoint protection, malware models, behavioral detections, and small language models within security use cases.
Threat Intelligence
AI
Large Language Models
MITRE ATT&CK
Cyber Kill Chain
Diamond Model
Python
PowerShell
C#
C++
Reverse-engineering
Anomaly Detection
Vulnerability Research
Network Protocols
Incident Response
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Defender XDR
MITRE ATT&CK
Python
PowerShell
C#
C++
AI
Large Language Models
Reverse-engineering
Cyber Kill Chain
Diamond Model
Network Protocols
Anomaly Detection
Vulnerability Research