Protective Intelligence and Investigations Lead

Fluidstack

1d • $184,000 - $228,000

About The Position

Fluidstack is seeking a Protective Intelligence and Investigations Lead to build and own its protective intelligence and investigations capability as the company scales its AI compute infrastructure across multiple continents. The role establishes analytic standards, quality expectations, and case-management practices, with the opportunity to grow the capability into a team.

The lead owns the end-to-end protective intelligence program, including threat intake and triage, monitoring, open-source research, case management, reporting, and dissemination to executives, security leadership, and operational teams. The role also develops investigative capabilities in partnership with HR, insider threat, and cybersecurity, including risk-based background processes and continuous monitoring.

The position assesses threats and investigates potentially threatening communications and indicators found in open sources and commercial databases, applying structured analytic techniques to prioritize risks and recommend actions. It establishes a lean investigative framework using capabilities across the security organization and wider enterprise, and embeds protective intelligence into hiring and onboarding, visitor and vendor management, executive travel, events, and crisis response.

Requirements

• Experience building and scaling a protective intelligence program or investigations function from an early stage, including setting standards and processes that support organizational growth.
• Rigorous open-source research and threat-assessment skills, including finding relevant information across social media, commercial databases, and public records, and distinguishing genuine threats from non-threats.
• Experience in high-threat or high-visibility environments where accuracy and judgment are important.
• Ability to determine when to escalate or de-escalate and to earn stakeholders' trust in assessments.
• Clear writing and briefing skills, including the ability to give executives or security leaders a decision and next step based on complex, ambiguous information.
• Ability to partner across functions, including with Legal, HR, Compliance, and Law Enforcement.

Responsibilities

• Build Fluidstack's protective intelligence and investigations capability from the ground up, establishing analytic standards, quality expectations, and case-management discipline.
• Own the end-to-end protective intelligence program, including threat intake and triage, monitoring, open-source research, case management, reporting, and dissemination.
• Build and mature investigative capabilities in partnership with HR, insider threat, and cybersecurity, including risk-based background processes and continuous monitoring.
• Conduct threat assessments and investigations involving potentially threatening communications and indicators from open sources and commercial databases.
• Apply structured analytic techniques to prioritize risks and recommend actions.
• Establish a lean investigative framework that uses departments and tools across the security organization and wider enterprise.
• Integrate protective intelligence into hiring and onboarding, visitor and vendor management, executive travel, events, and crisis response.
• Brief and provide assessments to executives, security leadership, and operational teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed