Director, Rapid Response & Thought Leadership (Remote)

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn't changed - we're here to stop breaches, and we've redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We're always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you. About the Role CrowdStrike is looking for a Director of Rapid Response & Thought Leadership to shape the cybersecurity conversation and extend CrowdStrike's leadership across the industry's most critical security challenges. This role requires someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, operates with a strong sense of urgency, and can quickly turn emerging threats, technical research, and industry developments into compelling narratives and high-impact marketing programs. In this role, you'll lead CrowdStrike's marketing rapid-response program, ensuring we respond quickly and effectively to emerging threats, critical vulnerabilities, and major cybersecurity events. You'll also build and execute strategic thought leadership programs, with a strong focus on AI research, AI safety, securing AI, and defending with AI, alongside other priority cybersecurity domains. This is a highly visible leadership role with the opportunity to build and lead a small, high-performing team. We're looking for someone who combines strong cybersecurity knowledge, exceptional storytelling, and operational discipline with the ability to build scalable programs and deliver measurable business impact. What You'll Do: Own and lead CrowdStrike's marketing rapid-response program for emerging threats, critical vulnerabilities, major cybersecurity incidents, and breaking security developments. Establish and operationalize a rapid-response program with defined SLAs, clear prioritization criteria, escalation paths, and cross-functional accountability to deliver timely, high-quality responses to critical cybersecurity events. Bring together Product Marketing, Campaigns, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, Communications, Editorial, Legal, Digital, and Sales Enablement to coordinate and execute rapid-response initiatives from initial assessment through publication and amplification. Work closely with technical experts to rapidly translate threat research and emerging security developments into timely, actionable content, including blogs, technical explainers, webinars, videos, and customer-facing resources. Lead strategic AI thought leadership programs spanning frontier AI research, AI safety, securing AI systems and agents, and defending with AI, establishing CrowdStrike as a leading voice in the AI security conversation. In partnership with PMM leadership, develop and execute ongoing thought leadership programs across other strategic security domains, including cloud security, identity, threat intelligence, and exposure management, with clear objectives, target audiences, execution plans, and measurable KPIs. Drive cross-functional execution and amplification of thought leadership programs a