Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

Role Overview

• Drive the structuring and alignment of intelligence outputs to ensure they deliver intelligence driven operational outcomes, support threat-informed security operations, investigations, and remediation decision-making without requiring direct analyst rework.
• Direct the development and implementation of operational intelligence strategies to proactively address emerging threats and support enterprise objectives.
• Enable consistent production of timely intelligence products focused on relevant and active threats to support enterprise threat management operations.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration, facilitating integration of threat intelligence with risk management, incident response, and security operations.
• Establish and maintain stakeholder engagement models, including onboarding, stakeholder profiling, intelligence requirement intake, and feedback mechanisms, to ensure intelligence outputs are aligned to evolving enterprise and business needs.
• Direct intelligence collection planning and prioritization to ensure effective coverage of priority and emerging threats while minimizing duplicative or ad hoc collection efforts.
• Evaluate and recommend enhancements to intelligence tools, processes, and frameworks to optimize operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Perform threat actor and infrastructure analysis, including research and data pivoting, to identify malicious campaigns and emerging threat activity.
• Lead the analysis of threats to the enterprise and the production of finished intelligence that integrates tactical and operational insights and provides direction on threat-driven prioritization.
• Set clear goals and measure performance against established KPIs, using data-driven insights to inform decisions and program improvements.
• Effectively communicate and report CTI program metrics and KPIs to technical leaders, senior leaders, and executives to demonstrate program effectiveness and value.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field (e.g., Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, Intelligence, Political Science, International Relations) or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 5+ years' experience in cyber threat intelligence, or a related security discipline, within a large, highly regulated organization in the public or private sector.
• Demonstrated experience across the intelligence lifecycle (planning, collection, processing, analysis, dissemination).
• Experience in intelligence collection management, including aligning collection activities to defined intelligence requirements and evolving threat priorities.
• Demonstrated experience conducting tactical and operational cyber threat analysis, including threat actor tracking, adversary behavior analysis, and malicious infrastructure research.
• Strong understanding of advanced cyber threats, threat vectors, and adversary methodologies.
• Ability to apply threat intelligence frameworks and data analysis techniques to produce insights that inform detection strategy, control posture, and threat-driven prioritization.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave)
• short-term and long-term disability
• life insurance and many other opportunities