Roles and Responsibilities

- Build, grow, and manage a robust cybersecurity community comprising security professionals, ethical hackers, security researchers, students, practitioners, and industry experts.

- Develop and execute community-building strategies to increase member acquisition, engagement, participation, and retention.

- Identify and actively engage with existing cybersecurity communities, groups, forums, and networks such as OWASP, BSides, CTF communities, security research communities, and other relevant platforms.

- Build and maintain strong relationships with cybersecurity professionals, security researchers, speakers, industry experts, and community leaders.

- Plan, coordinate, and execute cybersecurity events, meetups, conferences, webinars, workshops, CTFs, hackathons, and community sessions.

- Identify relevant cybersecurity events and communities and represent the organization to network, build relationships, and increase brand visibility within the cybersecurity ecosystem.

- Identify and onboard speakers, security researchers, practitioners, community leaders, and industry experts for events and community initiatives.

- Drive engagement across online and offline channels including LinkedIn, Discord, Slack, Reddit, GitHub, Telegram, WhatsApp, Meetup, and other cybersecurity communities.

- Create and coordinate engaging cybersecurity-focused content, discussions, campaigns, and initiatives that encourage participation from the security community.

- Collaborate with cybersecurity, marketing, sales, and internal teams to align community initiatives with organizational objectives.

- Track and analyze community and event metrics such as community growth, engagement, event registrations, attendance, participation, partnerships, and relationships built, and continuously improve the strategy.

- Stay updated on cybersecurity trends, security conferences, emerging technologies, CTFs, bug bounty programs, and activities within the cybersecurity community.

Job Requirements





- 2–5 years of experience in cybersecurity community building, community management, cybersecurity events, developer relations, cybersecurity marketing, or a related role.

- Strong understanding of the cybersecurity ecosystem, including areas such as Application Security, VAPT, ethical hacking, bug bounty, cloud security, or security research.

- Demonstrated experience in building, managing, or growing a cybersecurity/InfoSec community.

- Hands-on experience in organizing or coordinating cybersecurity events, meetups, conferences, webinars, CTFs, workshops, or hackathons.

- Strong existing network or ability to build relationships with security professionals, ethical hackers, security researchers, speakers, practitioners, and cybersecurity communities.

- Active awareness of communities and platforms such as OWASP, BSides, Null, DEF CON, CTF communities, GitHub, Reddit, Discord, Slack, and LinkedIn is highly desirable.

- Excellent communication, networking, relationship-building, and interpersonal skills.

- Strong event planning, coordination, execution, and project management skills.

- Ability to independently identify opportunities to build the company's presence within the cybersecurity community.

- Data-driven approach with the ability to track community and event performance and convert insights into actions.

- Passion for cybersecurity, community building, networking, and engaging with the security ecosystem.

Good to Have

- Experience working with or within cybersecurity companies, security communities, or security research organizations.

- Experience working with security researchers, bug bounty hunters, CTF players, ethical hackers, or cybersecurity influencers.

- Experience as an organizer, volunteer, speaker, mentor, or active contributor in OWASP, BSides, Null, DEF CON, CTFs, or similar cybersecurity communities.

- Existing network of cybersecurity professionals and community leaders.

- Experience creating or managing cybersecurity-focused events, campaigns, webinars, podcasts, workshops, or technical content.

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