Engineering Manager · Threat Intelligence · NordVPN

Details

Join Nord Security's Threat Intelligence team to lead multiple engineering teams responsible for building and operating products focused on privacy, security, and online protection.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow multiple teams within Threat Intelligence, building teams that consistently deliver and stay motivated.
• Define clear ownership boundaries between teams using approaches such as RACI or DACI.
• Connect team roadmaps and priorities to the company's vision and goals.
• Drive alignment with other departments and stakeholders so Threat Intelligence work integrates with broader product and company strategy.
• Champion the adoption of AI tools across teams to improve engineering and research efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to automate or accelerate existing workflows.
• Establish strong operational discipline, including proactive monitoring, early issue detection, and ownership of the health of systems built and operated by the teams.
• Maintain accountability for team delivery and production stability.
• Create a motivating environment where people understand the reasons behind priorities and take ownership of outcomes.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in engineering management, including experience managing managers or multiple teams simultaneously.
• A strong track record of building high-ownership, high-accountability teams that reliably deliver.
• Experience designing clear ownership models across multiple teams and avoiding overlaps or gaps in responsibility.
• Ability to translate company-level strategy into team-level priorities and maintain alignment across multiple teams.
• Experience driving process improvements, operational rigor, and incident or production ownership practices, including on-call discipline, postmortems, and proactive monitoring.
• Practical experience introducing or scaling AI tools within engineering or research workflows.
• A solid working understanding of software engineering and data-driven systems. Deep computer science expertise in algorithms or low-level systems design is not required.
• Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, onboarding, professional development, and communicating the reasoning behind decisions.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and tight deadlines across multiple workstreams.
• Experience in threat intelligence, cybersecurity, or Internet security is a plus but not mandatory.

Benefits

• Online and in-person training, access to Coursera and Skillshare, mentorship, and internal career opportunities.
• Extra vacation days that increase with tenure, along with additional sick leave, special occasion, and parenting days.
• Premium private health insurance in Lithuania and Poland.
• Free subscriptions to Calm, Headspace, and Mindletic, plus resilience and mindfulness training and mental health events.
• In-house gyms, Multisport and Urban Sport cards, online workouts, and physical well-being support.
• Company workations, flexible work-from-anywhere options, milestone gifts, parenting support, summer camps, team-building activities, and company events.
• Access to Nord Security's Vilnius headquarters, including silent rooms, gyms, a game room, music room, and coffee bar.