
Senior Intelligence Analyst I
Flashpoint · United States
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- $120,000 / year
- United States
Job highlights
- Analyze threats in online communities.
- Build keyword architecture for intelligence.
- Support enterprise clients with data.
- Collaborate with internal teams.
- Produce tactical and strategic assessments.
About the role
Senior Intelligence Analyst
Flashpoint is the pioneering leader in threat data and intelligence. We empower commercial enterprises and government agencies to decisively confront complex security challenges, reduce risk, and improve operational resilience amid fast-evolving threats. Through the Flashpoint Ignite platform, we deliver unparalleled depth, breadth and speed of data from highly relevant sources, enriched by human insights. Our solutions span cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability intelligence, geopolitical risk, physical security, fraud and brand protection. The result: our customers safeguard critical assets, avoid financial loss, and protect lives. Discover more at flashpoint.io
About the Role
Are you an experienced threat intelligence analyst who gets genuinely excited about finding signal in places others overlook? Flashpoint is looking for a Senior Intelligence Analyst I to join our Corporate Security team in a remote capacity. If you enjoy hunting for new sources across complex online communities, building keyword architecture that actually catches what you're looking for, and contributing to intelligence pipelines that operate at scale, we have a role for you. In this role, you will be a core driver of how Flashpoint expands and refines collections coverage in direct support of enterprise clients. Your work won't sit in a report, it will feed live pipelines used to surface real threats for the organizations that need them most.
We Have a Role For You If You:
- Have navigated illicit online communities, forums, marketplaces, closed channels and understand how they operate, how they shift, and what makes a source valuable versus noisy
- Have built complex keyword queries to surface relevant intelligence across large, unstructured datasets
- Understand the difference between a high-signal source and a high-volume one, and you know which matters more depending on the use case
- Have assessed source credibility and reliability in environments where actors have strong incentives to deceive
- Have contributed to or helped expand a collections program, identifying gaps, proposing new coverage areas, and validating that new sources actually deliver
- Have experience producing well-researched and concise written deliverables and can tailor writing to a variety of audiences
- Have worked with ambiguous requirements and translated them into a concrete sourcing or monitoring strategy
What You Will Get To Do On Our Team:
- Leverage our proprietary tools, internal data sources, and external tools to synthesize data and enhance analysis/alerting services for our clients' operational needs.
- Build and refine complex keyword sets and Boolean logic to maximize relevant coverage across diverse community types.
- Work directly with enterprise client teams to understand their collection priorities and translate those into actionable sourcing strategies.
- Collaborate with internal collections, product, and engineering teams to operationalize new sources at scale.
- Contribute to documentation and tradecraft standards that help the broader team replicate your sourcing methods.
- Safely navigate virtual environments for supporting assigned tasks, as applicable.
- Write high-quality tactical and strategic assessments to inform risk intelligence decision-making processes.
What You Will Achieve:
Within 30 days:
- You have completed onboarding and have a working understanding of Flashpoint's existing collections infrastructure and source taxonomy.
- You have met with the client team and can articulate their top collection priorities and current coverage gaps.
- You have audited a subset of existing sources and delivered an initial assessment of quality and relevance.
Within 60 Days:
- You have identified and proposed at least 3–5 net-new source candidates with documented rationale for each.
- You are independently building and testing keyword sets against live data with minimal guidance.
- You have begun contributing to the team's sourcing methodology documentation.
By 90 Days:
- You have successfully onboarded at least one new source into the active collections pipeline.
- Your keyword frameworks are being used or iterated on by peers.
- You are operating as a full contributor on client collection priorities, with a clear backlog of source candidates you own.
- You have identified at least one systemic gap in current coverage and proposed a plan to address it.
To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Need:
- Demonstrated experience finding, evaluating, and monitoring sources within illicit or gray-area online communities.
- The ability to construct complex Boolean or keyword queries that are precise enough to reduce noise without missing critical coverage.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments where source quality isn't obvious and tradecraft judgment matters.
- Experience working against external stakeholder requirements — understanding what a client actually needs versus what they asked for.
Why Flashpoint Is a Great Place To Work:
- Diversity: Flashpoint is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity. We recognize that diversity is key to achieving our vision. We believe that every person and their experiences contribute to building a work environment and products and services that will change the world.
- Culture and Belonging: Our company’s culture isn’t something you join, it’s something you build and shape, and each person's unique backgrounds and experiences contribute to who Flashpoint is and will become. You will have ample opportunities to connect with coworkers through various communication channels and company-funded virtual events: book clubs, happy hours, committees, DIBE discussion group, Donut mixers, local team member meetups and much more.
- Perks: Flashpoint understands that personal wellness is one of the keys to a happy, healthy and productive work environment. That’s why we also prioritize health and wellness perks like gym reimbursements, expensed lunches, cool cultural initiatives and inclusive employee events.
- Career Growth: Flashpoint is invested in the growth of our team members and understands that frequent, two-way feedback is critical to that growth. We encourage regular one-on-ones with your manager, a regular schedule of performance reviews, learning and development opportunities, and guidance through formalized career paths; whether that be towards being a great manager, being a great individual contributor, or a lateral move to gain breadth of knowledge and experience.
Are you unsure if this role suits you or not? Unsure about the timing? Interested in future opportunities? Stay connected by joining our Talent Network. By doing so, you'll stay updated with Flashpoint news and upcoming career opportunities. Even if you're not ready to apply now, being part of our Talent Network ensures you won't miss out on exciting opportunities in the future.
Key skills/competency
- Threat Intelligence Analysis
- Online Community Navigation
- Keyword Query Development
- Source Evaluation
- Risk Intelligence
- Data Synthesis
- Client Requirements Translation
- Intellectual Property
- Cyber Threat Intelligence
- Boolean Logic
Skills & topics
- Senior Intelligence Analyst
- Threat Intelligence
- Cyber Security
- Data Analysis
- Online Communities
- Keyword Research
- Risk Management
- Intelligence Gathering
- Boolean Logic
- Source Evaluation
- Remote
- Flashpoint
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight experience navigating illicit online communities and building keyword queries.
- Showcase your skills: Emphasize your ability to assess source credibility and translate ambiguous requirements.
- Prepare for interviews: Be ready to discuss your experience with threat intelligence and data synthesis.
- Network with Flashpoint: Join their Talent Network for future opportunities and company updates.
Technical preparation
Behavioral questions
Frequently asked questions
- What kind of online communities does a Senior Intelligence Analyst at Flashpoint navigate?
- A Senior Intelligence Analyst at Flashpoint navigates illicit online communities, forums, marketplaces, and closed channels to gather critical threat intelligence. This involves understanding their dynamics, evolution, and the credibility of sources within them.
- How does Flashpoint use the work of a Senior Intelligence Analyst?
- The work of a Senior Intelligence Analyst directly feeds live intelligence pipelines. This intelligence is used to surface real threats for enterprise clients, helping them reduce risk and improve operational resilience.
- What technical skills are most important for this Senior Intelligence Analyst role?
- Key technical skills include building complex keyword queries and Boolean logic to maximize relevant coverage, synthesizing data using proprietary and external tools, and understanding source taxonomy.
- What does success look like in the first 90 days as a Senior Intelligence Analyst at Flashpoint?
- Within 90 days, a successful Senior Intelligence Analyst will have onboarded new sources, have their keyword frameworks used by peers, contribute to client priorities, and identified/proposed plans for coverage gaps.
- Is this a remote position for a Senior Intelligence Analyst?
- Yes, this Senior Intelligence Analyst position is a remote role, allowing you to work from anywhere.
- How does Flashpoint support career growth for their Senior Intelligence Analysts?
- Flashpoint invests in team member growth through regular one-on-ones, performance reviews, learning and development opportunities, and clear career paths, supporting both individual contributor and management tracks.
- What is the primary goal of the Senior Intelligence Analyst role at Flashpoint?
- The primary goal is to expand and refine collections coverage to directly support enterprise clients by identifying valuable signals in complex online environments and translating these into actionable intelligence.