About the Role:
CrowdStrike is looking for a highly motivated, self-driven Engagement Lead to oversee forensic investigations performed by CrowdStrike’s trusted partners. This Engagement Lead will be dedicated to making a difference in global security by protecting organizations against a wide range of attackers. This person will coordinate directly with both CrowdStrike’s incident response leadership and the leadership of our partners and customers, representing CrowdStrike and helping deliver high-quality results during high-stakes incident response investigations.
Am I a Partner Services Engagement Lead candidate?
- Have you led teams through complicated incident response investigations?
- Have you managed and built trust with teams of incident responders?
- Are you comfortable with communicating about technical incident response findings to customer leadership, especially during high-pressure situations?
- Do you find yourself interested in and keeping up with the latest vulnerabilities and breaches?
- Are you self-motivated and looking for an opportunity to rapidly accelerate your skills?
- Do you have an Incident Response or Information Security background that you’re not fully utilizing?
- Are you a mentor who can naturally teach your colleagues new methods and approaches?
- Do you love working around like-minded, smart people who you can learn from on a daily basis?
What You'll Do:
- Oversee incident response engagements performed by CrowdStrike’s partners
- Assist in the development and tracking of project tasks and client deliverables
- Assist in managing the status of delivery team and client tasks to keep workflow on track
- Help ensure alignment between customers and CrowdStrike partners around investigation scope, objectives, and level of effort involved to complete objectives
- Support partners in effectively communicating with executives on the topics of forensics and malware analysis
- Help train partners on new methods to hunt for bad actors across large sets of data
- Effectively coordinate under the direction of outside counsel
- Coach and mentor partners on advanced methods of performing host and/or network-based forensics across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms
- Help review and provide strategic, applicable, and feasible recommendations to help mature the security posture of organizations during and after an incident
- Review written and verbal reports, presentations, recommendations, and findings for key stakeholders, including customer management, regulators, and legal counsel, to ensure alignment with CrowdStrike quality standards
- Supervise current projects and coordinate all team members to keep workflow on track
- Plan internal process improvement initiatives and facilitate execution by cross-functional teams
- Maintain and update templates and internal process documentation
What You'll Need:
Successful candidates will have experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Team leadership experience in a matrixed consulting environment
- Previous experience developing and managing relationships in a consulting environment, preferably involving incident response
- Incident Response: experience conducting or managing incident response investigations for organizations, investigating targeted threats such as the Ransomware, eCrime, Business Email Compromises (BECs)
- Experience in project management, from conception to delivery
- Experience managing external resources
- Experience implementing technology projects
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment
- Good communication and interpersonal skills capable of maintaining strong relationships
- Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills
- Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities
- Team-management and leadership skills with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team
- Documentation management and ability to use project management tools
- Attention to details even under pressure
- Time management skills with the ability to meet deadlines
- Liaising with project stakeholders concerning project details and deliverables
- Experience with identifying and implementing process efficiencies and monitoring the efficacy of updated workflows
- Comfort with proactively and independently driving for results in small team environments
- Experience working for consulting organizations
- Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
Bonus Points:
- Capable of reviewing technical investigation results for accuracy, consistency, and completeness
- Desire to grow and expand both technical and soft skills
- Strong project management skills
- Contributing thought leader within the incident response industry
- Ability to foster a positive work environment and attitude
- Ability to travel on short notice, up to 30% of the time
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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
Market leader in compensation and equity awards
Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
Paid parental and adoption leaves
Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe
CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $140,000 - $195,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off.
For detailed information about the U.S. benefits package, please click here.
Expected Close Date of Job Posting is:12-20-2026
