Threat Strategy Manager - Threat Intelligence

About Us:

Proofpoint is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity. We protect how people, data, and AI agents connect across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. Over 80 of the Fortune 100, 10,000 large enterprises, and millions of smaller organizations trust Proofpoint to stop threats, prevent data loss, and build resilience across their people and AI workflows. Our mission is simple: safeguard the digital world and empower people to work securely and confidently. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.

How We Work:

At Proofpoint you’ll be part of a global team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity guided by our BRAVE core values: 

Bold in how we dream and innovate

Responsive to feedback, challenges and opportunities

Accountable for results and best in class outcomes

Visionary in future focused problem-solving

Exceptional in execution and impact

The Role

The role of the Threat Strategy Manager is to work with your customers so that they realize the full value of the products and services they have purchased from Proofpoint, ultimately maximizing renewals and add-on transactions. This is a technical role in a fast-paced environment that demands interaction with enterprises at senior levels, as well as with technical staff within the traditional IT and Security organization. Independently provide ongoing and proactive technical leadership and support to Proofpoint’s strategic customers with little direction.

Your day-to-day

• Manage and monitor support interactions, serving as an internal advocate for strategic customers, responding to customer escalations, and proactively escalating when needed

• Meet regularly with clients to review support interactions, system status, key issues, emerging threats and how to combat them using Proofpoint products and services

• Develop deep understanding of customer’s business and operational needs

• Maintain deep practical technical knowledge of Proofpoint’s integration within the customer's environment, including network, security, systems administration, and messaging management

• Develop and oversee a comprehensive strategy to meet complex customer requirements utilizing Proofpoint’s solutions

• Provide proactive recommendations that protect our customer’s information assets, leveraging the Proofpoint product suite

• Identify and prioritize short term and long-term goals

• Plan and lead process improvement initiatives tailored to improve customer satisfaction with the services and interaction with the Proofpoint Team

• Plan, document, and identify risks and challenges for production changes that span multiple services or technologies

• Monitors levels customer satisfaction and escalates customer concerns as necessary

• Responsible for scheduling own time and for quality completion of multiple tasks within a varying environment of changing constraints

• Uses independent judgment within broad parameters

• Designs and implements solutions to complex problems with minimum supervision

• Provide technical guidance to customer teams and respond to enquiries regarding product features and functionality

Email-Centric Threat hunting & Detection

• Lead proactive, hypothesis-driven threat hunting focused on email-borne threats, including phishing, business email compromise (BEC), credential harvesting, malware delivery, and abuse of trusted services

• Analyze messaging telemetry, email headers, URLs, attachments, and user interaction data to identify low-signal, evasive, or novel attack patterns

• Correlate customer email data with Proofpoint threat intelligence to uncover emerging attacker infrastructure, techniques, and social engineering trends

• Investigate suspicious or ambiguous email activity to determine attacker intent, scope of impact, and risk to users and the organization

• Translate threat hunting findings into actionable recommendations, detection improvements, and preventative controls using Proofpoint solutions

• Partner with internal threat research, detection engineering, and product teams to share email-centric threat insights and improve platform-wide protections

• Deliver clear, customer-facing briefings on email threat hunting results, trends, and lessons learned, tailored to both technical and executive audiences

What you bring to the team

• 5+ years of industry experience in a client/professional service, sales engineer, senior support engineer, IT operations management, or senior engineer role with exposure to multiple technology areas

• Managed security or consultancy experience is required

• Knowledge of data communication concepts and technologies, specifically email and networking

• Develop innovative ways to leverage existing data and correlate customer data with other sets available at Proofpoint

• Working knowledge of Windows, Active Directory, and Microsoft Exchange

• A history of successfully motivating and inspiring coworkers your team and ensure they work efficiently and effectively

• Ability to effectively work in a team environment as well as independently

• Must be proactive and have outstanding verbal and written communication skills

• The successful candidate will have relevant experience with Proofpoint products and understand threat protection

• A deep understanding and up-to-date handle on the evolving threat landscape, giving briefings to customers, prospects and internal groups to spread threat intelligence landscape awareness

• Proactive, self-starter driven by setting and achieving goals

• Background in security, especially around threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures

Why Proofpoint 

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We are a customer-focused and driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products—and many exciting reasons to join our team. We believe in hiring the best, the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation.

We are a diverse, multinational company with opportunities in all functions, and leaders that welcome candidates from all walks of life. Apply today and explore your future #LifeAtPFPT.

Why Proofpoint?

At Proofpoint, we believe that an exceptional career experience includes a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Here are just a few reasons you’ll love working with us:

• Competitive compensation

• Comprehensive benefits

• Career success on your terms

• Flexible work environment

• Annual wellness and community outreach days

• Always on recognition for your contributions

• Global collaboration and networking opportunities

Our Culture:

Our culture is rooted in values that inspire belonging, empower purpose and drive success-every day, for everyone.

We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to [email protected].

How to Apply

Interested? Submit your application along with any supporting information- we can’t wait to hear from you!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable compensation and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package, including flexible time off, a comprehensive well-being program with two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year, plus a three-week Work from Anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

All other cities and states excluding those listed above: