Blackstone Physical Security - Managing Director, Security Intelligence

Blackstone • New York, NY

4d • $275,000 - $300,000

About The Position

The Managing Director of Intelligence is a senior security leader responsible for developing and leading security intelligence efforts to protect Blackstone’s people, assets, operations, and reputation. Reporting to the Chief Security Officer, this role oversees intelligence collection, analysis, reporting, and stakeholder engagement across the business. The position builds and leads a global intelligence and threat assessment function, develops monitoring and reporting capabilities, and delivers actionable assessments to executive leadership, investment stakeholders, and portfolio companies. It also supports executive protection, employee safety, crisis management, investigations, and external partnerships.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Intelligence Studies, Criminal Justice, International Relations, Homeland Security, or a related discipline preferred.
• 20+ years of experience in the intelligence community, national security, law enforcement, military, or corporate security preferred.
• Demonstrated experience within the United States Intelligence Community (USCI).
• Experience operating at the intersection of policy, security, and commercial decision-making.
• Strong expertise converting complex intelligence into clear business and investment insights.
• Experience developing intelligence products, threat assessments, investigative reports, and strategic risk briefings.
• Strong understanding of emerging security risks impacting corporate environments, executives, employees, portfolio companies, and business operations.
• Proven experience building and maintaining trusted relationships with internal teams, external partners, government agencies, law enforcement, industry associations, and portfolio company representatives.
• Familiarity with open-source intelligence tools, alerting platforms, social media monitoring, crime data, incident management systems, and other intelligence resources.
• Proven experience delivering intelligence to senior business leaders and decision makers.
• Strong written, verbal, and analytical communication skills.
• Ability to work well in a team-driven working group; high motivation, intelligence, sound judgment, and demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors.

Nice To Haves

• Established relationships with law enforcement, intelligence community partners, and government agencies.
• Industry certifications or relevant professional credentials in intelligence, security, or investigations.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Intelligence Studies, Criminal Justice, International Relations, Homeland Security, or a related discipline.
• 20+ years of experience in the intelligence community, national security, law enforcement, military, or corporate security.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and lead a global intelligence and threat assessment function for the firm.
• Develop security intelligence strategies, operating procedures, and reporting frameworks.
• Establish intelligence collection, analysis, dissemination, and escalation protocols aligned with business priorities and risk considerations.
• Create scalable intelligence capabilities supporting corporate offices, executive protection, employee travel, portfolio companies, and investment opportunities.
• Build a high-performing intelligence team with expertise in geopolitical analysis, protective intelligence, investigations, and threat management.
• Lead proactive analysis of geopolitical, criminal, terrorism, civil unrest, insider, reputational, and targeted violence threats impacting the firm and its investments.
• Deliver strategic intelligence assessments to executive leadership and investment stakeholders.
• Establish regional and global threat monitoring capabilities with actionable alerting and escalation processes.
• Develop threat models related to activist campaigns, executive targeting, workplace violence, sanctions impact, and supply chain disruption.
• Integrate open-source intelligence, commercial intelligence platforms, government liaison relationships, and internal reporting channels into a unified intelligence picture.
• Partner with executive protection and corporate security teams to support protective intelligence operations for senior executives and high-profile employees.
• Oversee travel risk intelligence, event security intelligence, and crisis monitoring for global employee deployments.
• Develop behavioral threat assessment and targeted violence prevention capabilities.
• Support incident response and crisis management during emergencies affecting personnel or business operations.
• Advise portfolio company leadership on emerging threats and collaborate on mitigation strategy.
• Develop scalable intelligence products and advisory services for portfolio companies operating in elevated-risk jurisdictions or sectors.
• Assess emerging risks affecting critical infrastructure, real estate, private equity, credit, insurance, and alternative asset investments.
• Contribute intelligence support for crisis management teams and business continuity operations.
• Support sensitive internal investigations in partnership with Legal, HR, Compliance, and Internal Audit.
• Contribute to post-incident intelligence reviews and lessons-learned processes.
• Build trusted relationships with law enforcement, intelligence community partners, peer institutions, industry groups, and external intelligence providers.
• Represent the firm in public-private intelligence and security forums.
• Evaluate and manage third-party security intelligence vendors, travel security providers, and analytical security platforms.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and FSA benefits.
• Paid time off.
• Life insurance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Discretionary bonuses.
• Certain employees may also be eligible for equity and other incentive compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive