Lead Security Consultant (m/fd)

Job brief: In this role, you lead a team of security consultants delivering consulting and assessment services such as offensive assessments, resilience improvements, or AI security engagements for some of the world’s most complex organisations. You are equally comfortable in front of a client board and in the weeds of a red team debrief.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee security engagements including red teaming, TIBER/DORA resilience assessments, penetration testing, and AI-focused security reviews and others
• Act as the primary point of contact for senior client stakeholders - translating technical findings into business risk and actionable recommendations
• Manage project delivery across scope, timeline, quality, and team utilisation
• Mentor and develop junior and mid-level consultants, providing hands-on guidance on complex engagements
• Drive business development by contributing to proposals, scoping, and client relationships
• Shape our AI security offering - including LLM red teaming, model security assessments, and AI risk frameworks
• Contribute to research and thought leadership that keeps SRLabs at the cutting edge

• Proven hands-on background in security with the credibility to lead technical teams
• Experience leading or managing security consulting engagements, including client-facing delivery at senior levels
• Solid understanding of enterprise and resilience frameworks
• Familiarity with AI/ML security concepts
• Ability to communicate complex security issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong communication skills in English and German is nice to have
• Experience writing proposals, scoping engagements, and managing expectations

• A senior role with real influence over how we build and grow our offensive security practice
• Diverse team of motivated security experts from many countries and backgrounds
• Opportunity to shape cutting-edge AI security work before it becomes mainstream
• Annual company retreat - a week of working holiday packed with fun, team building, and knowledge sharing
• Professional development: conference speaking, research publication, and training budget
• Competitive salary and flexible home office
• 30 days vacation period
• A wide range of benefits (discounts on Urban sports gym and Public transport ticket)

SRLabs is home to knowledge leaders securing critical infrastructures in finance, energy, and telecommunications. We focus on hands-on hacking resilience - not compliance -, which we shape by combining our hacking research with impactful consulting work for innovation leaders that have a natural thrive for cutting-edge technologies. We come from diverse backgrounds from all over the world, and that’s just the way we like it. From coding, reverse engineering, penetration testing, exploit scripting, process design, research and consulting skills, our mix of colleagues possesses a vast set of qualifications, that equips us to influence design decisions of large-scale organisations., SR Security Research Labs