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Cyber Threat Intelligence – Director

Humana
Remote US, United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 May 2026
💰 $260,500/yr($189,400/yr$260,500/yr)

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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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