Manager, Insider Trust

About the team + role

We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.

Robinhood’s Security Team is looking for a stellar Engineering Manager to build and lead our Insider Threat team. The Insider Threat team is focused on protecting, detecting, and responding to and from internal threats to Robinhood data and systems. The team identifies malicious and accidental misuse of otherwise legitimate access to data from people inside the company.

We investigate across a broad spectrum of threats and abuse including abuse of personal data, intellectual property, and leaks of sensitive information. We collaborate across our security engineering and business teams to build detection capabilities and analyze how abuse happens so that we can stay ahead of those who are interested in misusing access.

This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA office, with in-person attendance expected at least 5 days per week.

At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.

What you’ll do

• Lead a team of security engineers and analysts to develop solutions to hunt, detect, and respond to internal threats
• Work with technical leads to set the direction for infrastructure, process, and standards
• Provide technical expertise and leadership in threat hunting, incident response, forensics, security analysis, and security engineering
• Build, cultivate and maintain positive relationships with internal customers to identify and facilitate solutions to increase the impact of the team's work
• Work with cross-functional business, product, analytics, and engineering leaders to negotiate, plan, and execute on a roadmap for the Insider Threat team
• Mentor and grow the members of your team for their immediate and long-term careers
• Recruit top-tier talent at all levels of seniority
• Nurturing the team, providing outlets for support when confronting offensive, profane, and obscene materials
• Work with Technical Program Managers and Technical Writers to develop documentation of Insider Threat landscape
• Be the face of and subject matter expert for the services for your team provides to the legal, people, compliance, and executive teams

What you bring

• 3 years+ of experience in engineering management
• 6+ years experience in insider threat / abuse domain
• Exceptional integrity and emotional intelligence 
• Experience leading operational teams
• Experience developing and delivering information on program status for executive leadership

Leadership expectations 

Our ambitious roadmap requires a great culture shaped by exceptional leaders. Here’s what we expect from them:

• Drive high performance by setting clear, focused goals, giving real-time feedback, stretching top talent, and scaling impact through focus, innovation, and tech.
• Hire and retain top talent by setting a high bar, hiring only those who raise it, investing in onboarding, and addressing talent issues quickly and fairly.
• Create community by connecting work to purpose, removing friction while prioritizing safety, building trust and inclusion, and leading from the front with integrity.

What we offer

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
• Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
• Best-in-class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
• Lifestyle wallet — a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
• Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
• Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
• Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.