Director, Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigations

Hilco Global•Chicago, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Hilco Global is expanding its Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice and is seeking professionals to help build this growing practice. This practice advises clients on matters involving fraud and misconduct investigations, forensic accounting and financial analysis, post-acquisition and other commercial disputes, bribery and corruption matters, asset tracing, investigative due diligence, litigation support, regulatory response, digital forensics and cyber-enabled investigations, e-discovery, and other sensitive situations requiring rigorous analysis, sound judgment, and clear communication. This is a true build opportunity within an established platform that already has deep client relationships, strong market credibility, and meaningful adjacency to restructuring, valuation, capital solutions, and other advisory capabilities. The role offers a chance to shape a market-facing practice with complex, high-value matters at the intersection of digital evidence, accounting, finance, investigations, disputes, transactions, restructurings, and distressed situations. Professionals will have cross-platform opportunity with natural adjacency to Hilco's capital solutions, restructuring, valuation, and advisory capabilities, along with meaningful responsibility and career upside.

Requirements

Approximately 7-10 years of relevant experience in digital forensics, forensic technology, cyber investigations, insider-risk investigations, incident investigation, or related consulting services.
Significant experience managing complex, multi-workstream digital forensics matters and interacting directly with senior clients and counsel.
Strong technical grounding in forensic preservation, collection, artifact analysis, chain of custody, user-activity reconstruction, log analysis, and defensible reporting.
Experience with leading forensic and investigative technologies such as EnCase, FTK, Cellebrite, Magnet AXIOM, X-Ways, Nuix, Relativity, Microsoft Purview, Google Vault, CrowdStrike, Splunk, or similar platforms.
Demonstrated leadership in engagement oversight, team development, client service, and technical quality control.
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to translate technical findings into clear business, legal, and investigative conclusions.
Strong judgment and ability to operate effectively in sensitive, high-stakes, deadline-driven matters.
Willingness to travel based on client and business needs.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, digital forensics, accounting, finance, business, or a related discipline required; candidates with master's degrees or other advanced technical degrees are strongly encouraged and will be prioritized.
Professional credentials such as EnCE, GCFE, GCFA, GASF, CCE, CFCE, CISA, CISSP, RCA, CEDS, or similar certifications are advantageous.

Responsibilities

Lead large or high-complexity digital forensics and cyber investigations from scoping and preservation through analysis, reporting, and presentation of findings.
Oversee forensic collections and analyses involving endpoints, mobile devices, email, cloud repositories, collaboration tools, enterprise systems, logs, and other digital evidence sources.
Direct user-activity reconstruction, data movement and deletion analysis, access-log analysis, communications analysis, and other digital fact-development workstreams.
Advise clients and counsel on evidence preservation, collection strategy, data scoping, chain of custody, technical limitations, and defensible investigative methodology.
Serve as a primary day-to-day contact for clients, external counsel, IT, security, HR, compliance, and senior stakeholders on digital evidence issues.
Review technical workpapers, forensic reports, timelines, exhibits, declarations, and other client-facing deliverables.
Manage engagement economics, resource planning, technical risk, deadlines, and quality-control considerations.
Coach and develop Managers, Associates, Analysts, and other team members across active matters.
Help drive consistency in methodology, defensibility, tool usage, documentation, and execution across the practice.
Support proposals, pitches, thought leadership, recruiting, training, vendor relationships, and strategic growth initiatives.
Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships and connect digital forensics work with Hilco's broader investigations, disputes, restructuring, valuation, and advisory capabilities where relevant.