Principal Technical Strategist - NextGen

Location: USA - Remote

Base salary: $180,000–$275,000 per year for U.S. candidates, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants, health insurance, 401k, and paid time off.

Company

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company developing an AI-native platform that protects organizations through large-scale distributed systems, threat detection, and response.

What you will do

• Define and own the Next-Gen SIEM product strategy, capability roadmap, competitive positioning, technical differentiation, and success criteria.
• Drive product definition for data ingestion, detection logic, investigation workflows, response automation, and AI-assisted analyst workflows.
• Own the NGSIEM data strategy, including native connectors, petabyte-scale ingestion economics, federated search, and centralized storage trade-offs.
• Shape the Falcon platform consolidation narrative across SIEM, SOAR, log management, threat intelligence, Endpoint, Cloud Security, Identity Protection, and Exposure Management.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, NGSIEM, Fusion SOAR, Charlotte AI, and Falcon Foundry teams on short-term, long-term, automation, and extensibility strategy.
• Engage customers, sales, strategic accounts, analysts, and internal stakeholders to research opportunities, communicate product strategy, and support cybersecurity thought leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field.
• At least 5 years of experience in cybersecurity or the log management market, with significant focus on security visibility and insights.
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience, ideally covering at least two of sales engineering/pre-sales, competitive intelligence, solution architecture, sales operations, product management, technical marketing, professional services, research and development, or technical support.
• Experience defining and shipping product capabilities and turning strategy into shipped features.
• Understanding of platform economics, including data network effects, module attach rates, and consolidation pricing.
• Familiarity with detection engineering pipelines, correlation rule frameworks, or content-as-code approaches.
• Hands-on experience with relevant products through design, evaluation/testing, or production use.
• Superior communication skills, including presentations to senior and executive management.
• Excellent people and project management skills for cross-functional and third-party collaboration.
• Proven experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.

Nice to have

• Direct customer experience as a customer, in customer support, or in a field role.
• Real-world experience using AI, SIEM, SOAR, or Log Management tools for threat hunting, vulnerability detection, risk analysis, or compliance validation.
• Experience presenting platform consolidation narratives to Gartner, Forrester, IDC, or in competitive displacement scenarios.
• Hands-on experience with CrowdStrike Query Language, LogScale, or comparable query-time analytics at scale.
• Experience building or evaluating AI/ML-driven security automation, including auto-triage, anomaly detection, or LLM-assisted investigation.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible, autonomous work environment with an emphasis on responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation.
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
• Competitive vacation and holidays, plus paid parental and adoption leave.
• Professional development opportunities for employees at all levels.
• Employee networks, geographic neighborhood groups, volunteer opportunities, and office amenities.