Chief Technology & Product Officer (CPTO) Greater Paris, France Area

About StrangeBee 🐝

StrangeBee started in 2018 with a simple idea from the creators of TheHive and Cortex: give security teams open tools that actually help them respond to incidents. Today, TheHive is used by thousands of security analysts in 43 countries. We’re a team of 90 people across Paris, Barcelona, the US, and we’re growing the hive. Want to contribute?

How we work

Customer Centric: we build for real security teams facing real threats.

Quest for Excellence: “good enough” isn’t our standard.

Embrace Change: cyber moves fast, and so do we. If something could be better, say it.

One Team: trust, open communication and psychological safety, across titles and teams.

We’re looking for a Chief Technology & Product Officer (CTPO) to own StrangeBee’s multi-year technology and product vision and turn it into organizational clarity and reliable delivery. Based in Paris and reporting to our CEO, you’ll lead a technology organization of around 70 people through a leadership team you build: VPs who are hands-on, while you lead through them, not through individual execution. As we scale our product, our team and our ambition, and reshape our tech leadership at the top, you’ll shape the next chapter of StrangeBee.

The essentials

Location: Paris, hybrid (2 days a week in the office)

Contract: Permanent, full-time

Reports to: CEO

Salary: €180,000 year depending on experience

What you’ll do

Define and drive the multi-year technology and product strategy, in close alignment with the CEO and Revenue leadership

Build and lead the tech executive team: VP Engineering, VP Product, VP Infrastructure & Security and Head of AI

Set the strategic direction for TheHive and Cortex, including scalability, security and reliability goals for enterprise customers, while your VP Engineering owns architecture and execution

Steer the resolution of significant technical debt and major migration projects through your VPs, with clear metrics and accountability

Grow our AI capability with the Head of AI: a product AI roadmap and the adoption of AI across our internal ways of working

Represent StrangeBee externally at industry conferences and in the security community, and contribute to our thought leadership

Serve as a key member of the Leadership team and Comex

What success looks like

First 3 months: you’ve met the teams, customers and key stakeholders, and shared a first read of our technical and organizational challenges with the CEO

By 6 months: a measured diagnostic of technical debt, migration and security risk; VP Engineering and VP Product onboarded with clear, non-overlapping scopes; the Head of AI role scoped and hiring underway; a multi-year roadmap agreed with the CEO and Revenue; and your direct reports’ teams able to explain the strategy in their own words and link it to their work

By 12 months: e.g. a stable, fully staffed tech leadership team, measurable progress on technical debt and migrations, and a first AI roadmap delivering value

What you bring

Experience as a CTPO, VP Engineering or equivalent executive role in a B2B software scale-up serving enterprise customers

Strong grounding in cybersecurity, through domain expertise or sustained exposure to security products and customers

You’ve scaled engineering and product organizations through rapid growth

You’ve led technical-debt and migration programs without halting delivery

A visible presence in the tech or security community

You’re at ease in a lean, bootstrapped environment where pragmatism matters as much as vision

Fluent English (our working language)

Nice to have

Experience in cybersecurity or B2B SaaS, especially open-source-based products

French useful in our Paris environment

Experience building AI capabilities into a product and an organization

Don’t tick every box? Apply anyway. This list is a guide, not a checklist. We care more about how you think and learn than about a perfect match.

What we offer

Hybrid work: 2 days in the office

Health insurance: mutuelle — coverage

Equipment: laptop and setup provided

Team life: offsites, team events, the TheHive community

A real mandate to shape an organization and leave your mark

And more...

Our hiring process

We keep it transparent and respectful of your time: [X] steps over about [X] weeks, and an answer at every stage, even if it’s a no.

Discovery call with the Head of people (30 min)

Interview with leadership (1 hour)

Meetings with Comex members / future direct reports (1 hour)

Final fit interview with our Head of HR (30 min)

We may run a reference check before making an offer.

At StrangeBee, we hire for skills and potential. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences. If you need any adjustment during the process, just let us know.