Penetration Testing Manager

Working at Thoropass

At Thoropass, we are revolutionizing the compliance and audit industry by integrating cutting-edge AI technology with expert human insight. Our team is dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experiences and high-quality outcomes.

We’re driven by our mission to build a world that’s safer for consumers and ensuring compliance is never a blocker to innovation. By bringing together remarkably talented individuals, we’re looking to help the industry see compliance as an advantage. Join us as we collaborate to establish our platform as the world's leading choice for compliance and audit solutions.

Our Values

These are the behaviors and skills we look for in our people. Living by these values ensures we are building a team that can grow together and deliver the best possible outcomes for each other and our customers.

Take thoughtful risk: We solve for today while being considerate of tomorrow—creatively leveraging our tools and abilities to hit ambitious goals.

Be curious, ask, and learn: We always seek to better understand our industry and our customers. We don’t shy away from mistakes—using every bit of data to learn and iterate.

Win together: Compliance is a team sport. We proactively engage with one another and check our egos at the door in search of the best ideas.

Move the needle: Our goals are lofty for a reason. We set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and challenge ourselves to close the gap between those goals and results.

What We Do

Thoropass is transforming the landscape of security compliance and audits. As the only all-in-one platform that combines compliance automation software with a tech-enabled audit firm and pentest services, we offer a modern approach to information security compliance and audit. Our AI-powered solutions, such as First Pass AI, are designed to streamline compliance and accelerate audits for frameworks like SOC, PCI, ISO, HITRUST, HIPAA, and more. Thousands of companies trust Thoropass for high-quality audit and assessment services, delighting in a truly differentiated experience.

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, Thoropass has rapidly expanded with $97M in funding from top investors including J.P. Morgan, PayPal Ventures, Fin Capital, Centana, Canapi, and Bain Capital. We operate as a virtual, global company with a presence in over 18 countries. With substantial growth in both customers and revenue, we are strategically positioned for continued expansion in 2025 and beyond.

About the Role

We are looking for a Penetration Testing Manager to lead and mentor a sub-team of 4–5 pentesters within the Thoropass penetration testing organization. This is a player-coach position: you will perform hands-on pentests while ensuring your team stays motivated, on track, and consistently delivers high-quality results.

You’ll be part of a broader management structure with other Pentest Managers, working closely together to align methodologies, maintain consistency, and drive operational excellence across all teams. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with people leadership skills, thrives in a collaborative environment, and enjoys developing others while still staying technically sharp.

Thoropass pentesters work with AI-augmented tooling as part of their daily workflow. AI handles the mechanical layer:  reconnaissance enumeration, payload generation, finding drafts, and evidence formatting,  while the tester drives strategy, validates exploitability, and owns the final deliverable. This means the manager role has shifted: you are no longer reviewing whether someone can write a proper HTTP payload request — you are reviewing whether they can direct AI effectively, catch what it gets wrong, and push past where it stops.

About You

• You have experience leading technical teams and understand how to motivate, mentor, and empower others.
• You are hands-on and comfortable switching between performing pentests and managing people.
• You thrive in fast-paced environments where structure and processes are actively evolving.
• You set high standards for quality, lead by example, and bring a collaborative mindset to team leadership.
  
  

What You'll Do

• Lead and manage a Pentest team of 4–5 pentesters, providing technical guidance, feedback, and professional development support.
• Ensure all assigned engagements are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with Thoropass standards.
• Conduct 1:1s, coaching sessions, and technical reviews to maintain motivation, quality, and team engagement.
• Collaborate with other Pentest Managers to balance workloads, share best practices, and standardize delivery processes.
• Partner with leadership to continuously improve internal operations, delivery frameworks, and team morale.
  
  

Deliver Penetration Testing Engagements

• Conduct web, network, API, LLM and MCP penetration tests using black box, gray box or white box methods, combining manual testing with both traditional automation and AI assisted tooling to increase coverage and speed without losing depth.
• Identify and exploit vulnerabilities to build realistic attack paths and show clear business impact, including AI specific risks such as prompt injection, insecure model outputs, data leakage, unsafe tool and function calling, and abuse of agentic or MCP based workflows.
• Produce detailed, customer facing reports with practical remediation guidance written in clear and professional English, and use AI to draft and refine content faster while keeping a human in the loop to verify every finding, rating and recommendation.
• Stay current with modern attack techniques and tools, including offensive and defensive uses of AI, so your work and your team's work remain technically strong as both the threat landscape and the technology keep changing.
  
  

Enhance Penetration Testing Function

• Help scale the pentest program through improved workflows, templates, and automation.
• Lead internal knowledge-sharing sessions and encourage a culture of continuous learning.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Customer Success, Sales, and Operations to ensure seamless customer delivery.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and training as the pentest function expands.
  
  

Skillsets/ Requirements

•  5–8+ years in pentesting or red teaming, including 1+ year of people management experience.
• Prior experience mentoring or managing security professionals.
• Strong technical expertise in web application, API, mobile and network penetration testing, plus a working understanding of how to test AI powered systems such as LLM applications, agents and MCP based integrations.
• At least 1 of the following certifications: OSCP, OSCE, OSWE, PWPT, Burp Suite Certified Practitioner.
• Knowledge of current attack methods, manual penetration testing techniques and popular hacking tools (for example Claude Code, Codex, Burp Suite Pro, sqlmap), including how to use AI tools to speed up testing while keeping full control over the results.
• Proficient scripting skills in bash, Python or similar languages, with the ability to use AI coding assistants to build and adapt tooling quickly.
• Fluency in English, with exceptional verbal & written communication. You’re able to convey complex, technical topics to an array of stakeholders in a digestible and compelling manner.
• Strong sense of operational ownership, able to balance delivery speed, quality and customer satisfaction, and to judge when AI can help and when human expertise has to lead.
  
  

Bonus Points

• Contributions to the security community, such as conference talks, blog posts, open-source projects, or CVE discoveries.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks that often require pentesting (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA).
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (Sales, Customer Success, Engineering) to scope, plan, or deliver pentests.
• Participation in bug bounty programs or vulnerability research initiatives.
• Experience with AI/LLM security testing and cloud environments such as AWS is a plus.
• Experience with Hack the Box, Portswigger Academy, or similar learning platforms.  

LATAM Compensation:

• Competitive base salary
• Exceptional private healthcare
• Early equity in a fast-growing company
• Work-from-home model
• Flexible PTO
• Home office equipment
• Monthly wellness and home Wi-Fi stipend