Director, Analyst Relations
Torq•3h ago
United StatesRemoteFull-timeDirector Level8+ yrs exp
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Skeletons, lasers, tattoo buses — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we're growing like crazy, backed by Series D funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth. Fueling Torq's momentum is our game-changing AI SOC platform, backed by a team and culture that makes Torq one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in America, and a Business Insider 'startup to bet your career on'.
Life at Torq is all gas, no brakes. We're a team of relentless, collaborative go-getters pushing the boundaries of what's possible for security automation. Every role is an essential driver of Torq's success as the AI-native autonomous SecOps platform of choice for security teams across the Fortune 500
Job Description
- Director of Analyst Relations
- The Opportunity
- Torq is redefining the AI SOC category. As the Director of Analyst Relations , you will be the chief architect of our reputation among the industry’s most critical influencers.
- Your mission is to ensure that every relevant analyst at every major firm understands who Torq is, how our tech is unique
- why enterprises prefer Torq to transform how they understand and manage risk. This is a high-stakes role for a strategist who can translate the technical power and combination of Agentic AI and automation into a market-defining narrative.
- What You’ll Do
- Own the Narrative: Build and lead a world-class AR program that positions Torq as the undisputed leader in the emerging AI SOC category.
- Lead the "Evaluations" War Room: Direct Torq’s participation in major research reports (e.g, Gartner Magic Quadrant, KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, Frost & Sullivan Radar, etc.). You will manage the entire lifecycle from technical RFIs to high-pressure executive briefings, ensuring our story is undeniable.
- Bridge Product & Influence: Collaborate closely with our Product and Engineering teams to distill advanced concepts into strategic insights that analysts can’t ignore.
- Strategic Feedback Loop: Don't just talk to analysts; listen to them. Bring outside-in competitive intelligence and market trends back to our Product Marketing and GTM teams to refine our edge.
- Executive Coaching: Prepare our C-suite and technical founders for briefings, ensuring every interaction reinforces Torq’s unique position in the market.
- The Ideal Profile
- Security Savvy: You live and breathe cybersecurity. You understand SOC personas and pain points, the friction of legacy tools, and how agentic AI is fundamentally changing the game for defenders.
- AR Heavyweight: You have 8+ years of experience in AR or Corporate Communications, with a proven track record of moving the needle in the B2B security space.
- Agile & Scrappy: Torq moves fast. You thrive in a high-growth environment where you need to be both the "thinker" and the "doer."
- The Master Communicator: You can take a complex, technical "how-to" and turn it into a "why it matters" for a Tier-1 analyst.
- Methodology Expert: You know the Gartner and other firms' playbooks inside and out and know how to navigate their processes to maximize impact.
- Why Torq?
- Category Creators: We aren't following a trend; we are setting the pace for how the modern SOC operates.
- Unmatched Tech: You'll be representing a platform that actually delivers on the promise of the AI SOC spanning the entire threat management lifecycle.
- Remote-First Excellence: We are a distributed team of high-performers who value autonomy, speed, and results.
- We build AI for a living
- we encourage candidates to use it to prep, research
- sharpen their best work. But we're hiring humans, not chatbots. We want the real you. Use AI to tighten your resume, prep for interviews, research Torq
- outline ideas for written responses. Show up as yourself for live interviews, final assessments (the voice, logic
- reasoning need to be yours)
- anywhere we're evaluating how you think — not how you prompt.
- Excited about our vision and ready to make an impact as we grow? We'd love to see what you can bring to the team.
Required skills
cybersecurityARCorporate CommunicationsB2B securityGartner