Cyber Threat Intelligence – Director
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As the Director of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), you will lead the organization's end-to-end threat intelligence capability—spanning strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence—to protect the enterprise and enable risk-informed decisions. Reporting to the Associate Vice President of Threat Management & Response (TMR), this role is accountable for defining the CTI vision, executing against it, and ensuring intelligence delivers measurable risk reduction and decision advantage for senior leadership.This role requires a hands-on, modern intelligence leader with strong fluency in automation, AI/ML-enabled analysis, and threat-informed defense, capable of integrating intelligence across security functions and influencing outcomes at the executive level.
As the Director of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), you will lead the organization's end-to-end threat intelligence capability—spanning strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence—to protect the enterprise and enable risk-informed decisions. Reporting to the Associate Vice President of Threat Management & Response (TMR), this role is accountable for defining the CTI vision, executing against it, and ensuring intelligence delivers measurable risk reduction and decision advantage for senior leadership.
This role requires a hands-on, modern intelligence leader with strong fluency in automation, AI/ML-enabled analysis, and threat-informed defense, capable of integrating intelligence across security functions and influencing outcomes at the executive level.
Key Responsibilities
CTI Vision & Strategy
- Define and execute a clear, multi-year CTI strategy aligned to enterprise security objectives and business risk.
- Ensure threat intelligence meaningfully informs priorities, investments, and defensive decisions across TMR and EIP.
Intelligence Program Leadership
- Lead and mature CTI across strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence.
- Govern the intelligence lifecycle, including Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs), collection, analysis, and dissemination.
- Establish outcome-based metrics that demonstrate intelligence value and risk reduction.
AI, Automation & Scale
- Apply automation and AI/ML to improve speed, quality, and scale of intelligence operations.
- Implement practical use cases such as automated collection and enrichment, prioritization, analytic support, and intelligence-to-detection pipelines.
- Ensure intelligence automation is responsibly governed and aligned with enterprise risk standards.
Threat-Informed Defense Integration
- Embed threat intelligence into SOC operations, incident response, threat hunting, detection engineering, vulnerability management, and red/purple teaming.
- Drive intelligence-led prioritization of controls, detections, testing, and remediation.
Executive Communication & Advisory
- Deliver clear, actionable intelligence to senior leaders, risk forums, and executive stakeholders.
- Provide authoritative threat context and guidance during incidents and strategic planning efforts.
External Engagement
- Maintain strong engagement with ISACs/ISAOs, industry peers, and government partners.
- Keep the organization informed of emerging threat trends, adversary behavior, and geopolitical risks.
Leadership & Talent
- Lead and develop a high-performing CTI team across experience levels.
- Set clear expectations, develop analytic and technical depth, and foster a culture of rigor, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
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Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Intelligence Studies, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- 8–10+ years of experience in cybersecurity or intelligence roles, with deep cyber threat intelligence experience.
- 5+ years of people leadership experience.
- Strong understanding of the cyber threat landscape, including nation-state and criminal actors.
- Working expertise with intelligence frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK) and applying intelligence to defensive outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging automation, data analytics, or AI within CTI or security operations.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex threats clearly and credibly.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in one of the following:
- Cybersecurity / Information Security
- Computer Science / Data
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