Security & Defense Tech Executive Roles — Cyber, Physical Security, Dual-Use

Security & Defense Tech covers executive roles at cybersecurity firms, physical-security companies, and dual-use defense-tech startups. Distinct from traditional Aerospace & Defense — this flagship centers on technology-first companies whose products serve security or defense customers.

Across the 48 active roles in this category, the largest tier is VP. The classifier weighs company size, scope, and reporting line — not just the title prefix — so the tier mix reflects real responsibility, not vanity titles.

Security & Defense Tech classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:

1. Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
2. Compensation threshold. An exec-tier base-comp floor filters out individual-contributor roles that share the title language. Roles below the floor in unambiguous category titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
3. JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the JD for tech-platform-vs-program-management business model and cyber-vs-physical-security focus. The classifier separates ClimateTech and DefTech from traditional Aerospace. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.

Negative filters explicitly block adjacent IC and analyst roles whose titles can resemble executive ones. The result: Security & Defense Tech as a category in your inbox is the executive cut, not the entry-level cut.

Matching on Security & Defense Tech is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.

Example: select Security & Defense Tech + CTO/Technology Leadership and you see CTOs across cybersecurity and dual-use defense-tech companies — your inbox shows the intersection, not the union. You won't see roles that match only one of the filters and not the other.

Tier filtering layers on top. If you only want VP-tier and above in this category, the seniority-tier filter does that cleanly. Restrict further to C-suite only to see the most senior seats, or open it up to Director-tier to widen the funnel during early-stage exploration.