Position Purpose:

The Home Depot is seeking a Cybersecurity Manager – Threat Hunting to lead and mature our proactive threat hunting program while developing a high-performing team of cybersecurity professionals. This role combines people leadership, program strategy, and hands-on cybersecurity expertise, with a focus on advancing threat-informed hunting methodologies, improving detection capabilities, and driving automation and AI-enabled efficiencies across the hunting lifecycle.

Global Hunt Operations - Plan and execute proactive hunting campaigns

• Define hunt methodologies
• Develop and mature the threat-informed defense model

Threat Research - Translate threat intelligence into hunt hypotheses and hunt packages

• Continue developing a hypothesis-driven hunting program
• Work with Threat Intelligence (CTI) to operationalize emerging TTPs

Detection Advancement - Turn successful hunts into durable detections and analytics

• Partner closely with Detection Engineering to convert hunts into actionable detections for Threat Detection & Response analysts

Automation - Reduce manual hunting effort through engineering and AI

• Focus on automation-first and AI-assisted hunting
• Integrate manual, repeatable processes into an AI / automation pipeline

People Leadership - Develop junior and senior hunters into technical experts and advisors to the incident response process

• Define hunt quality standards

Program Metrics - Measure hunt effectiveness, ATT&CK coverage, and detection improvements

Key Responsibilities:

• 100% Deliver Execution, Plans & Aligns, Develop Others - Collaborate across teams to reduce vulnerabilities, risks and incident management; Drive execution of solution delivery; Guide teams in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution to ensure priorities objectives/deliverable are met; Provide leadership, mentoring and coaching to direct reports

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position typically reports to Sr. Manager or Director
• This position has 6-10 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• No travel required.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of previous leadership experience

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 8

Competencies:

• Decision Quality
• Drives Engagement
• Develops Talent
• Manages Conflict