Protective Intelligence & Threat Analyst

OpenAI•San Francisco, CA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Corporate Security team ensures the physical safety and security of the organization's assets, operations, and personnel. We are committed to maintaining a secure environment that enables our team to focus on advancing artificial intelligence in a responsible manner. As a Protective Intelligence & Threat Analyst, you will help identify, assess, and manage potential threats to OpenAI employees, executives, offices, events, and operations. This role is centered on behavioral threat assessment: understanding concerning behavior, evaluating credibility and escalation potential, and producing clear, actionable recommendations that help Corporate Security and cross-functional partners manage risk. You will conduct open-source and social media research, support person of interest investigations, assess violent or disruptive threats, and develop intelligence products that explain not just what happened, but what it may mean from a threat management perspective. This includes evaluating behavioral indicators, grievance-driven activity, fixation, leakage, escalation, and other factors relevant to protective intelligence and workplace violence prevention. We are seeking candidates with intelligence and investigative experience, ideally with a strong foundation in protective intelligence, behavioral threat assessment, or threat management. Applicants should understand the intelligence cycle, OSINT investigation techniques, corporate security operations, risk management, and structured threat assessment methodologies. The role requires sound judgment, discretion, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to manage sensitive matters in a fast-moving environment. Candidates should be strong writers and clear communicators who can turn complex, incomplete, or noisy information into concise assessments for security leaders, executives, and cross-functional partners. Some technical curiosity is also helpful, including familiarity with web-based tools, social media platforms, data workflows, automation, and the use of AI-enabled tools to improve investigative and analytical processes. This role could be based in any of our US offices or may be a remote role for the right candidate. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.

Requirements

5+ years of experience conducting threat investigations, protective intelligence, behavioral threat assessment, intelligence analysis, or related security investigations.
Direct experience working within, supporting, or helping build a behavior-based threat assessment or threat management program.
Strong understanding of behavioral threat assessment concepts, including grievance, fixation, leakage, identification, escalation, pathway-to-violence indicators, protective factors, and case management considerations.
Experience conducting POI investigations and producing clear assessments that help operational teams make practical decisions about mitigation, monitoring, engagement, escalation, or closure.
Strong OSINT and online investigation skills, including the ability to identify, collect, evaluate, and synthesize publicly available information from fragmented or ambiguous sources.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex investigative findings into concise, useful products for both security professionals and non-security stakeholders.
Sound judgment, discretion, and comfort handling sensitive matters involving employees, executives, external individuals, and potentially volatile situations.
Ability to work independently while staying tightly connected to a small, fast-moving, and highly collaborative team.
Comfort operating in ambiguity, managing multiple priorities, and making well-reasoned assessments with incomplete information.
Ability to build trusted relationships across functions such as Legal, People, Communications, Workplace, Executive Protection, GSOC, Resilience, Government Relations, and Information Security.
Familiarity with case management platforms, OSINT tools, social media research, threat detection workflows, and intelligence reporting processes.
Knowledge of Ontic or similar integrated research, threat detection, and case management platforms.
Experience with ATAP, WAVR-21, USSS NTAC, FBI BAU, NABITA, or other recognized behavioral threat assessment methodologies or professional communities.
CTM certification, ATAP membership, or willingness to pursue relevant professional development in threat assessment.
Willingness to support time-sensitive incidents, including occasional nights, weekends, or crisis response situations.

Responsibilities

Conduct behavior-based threat assessment investigations involving direct, indirect, implied, or emerging threats to OpenAI employees, executives, offices, events, and operations.
Develop clear, concise, and actionable threat assessment products that summarize behavioral indicators, credibility, severity, escalation potential, and recommended mitigation options.
Conduct person of interest (POI) investigations where there is a defined direction of interest toward OpenAI personnel, executives, workplaces, events, or company operations.
Apply structured threat assessment frameworks and professional judgment to distinguish between concerning behavior, grievance-driven communications, harassment, disruptive activity, and credible threats of violence.
Prepare and deliver written assessments, briefings, BOLOs, and other intelligence products for Corporate Security leadership, Executive Protection, Legal, People, Communications, and other cross-functional partners.
Support case management workflows by documenting investigative findings, behavioral observations, risk factors, protective factors, investigative gaps, and recommended next steps.
Maintain awareness of individuals, groups, narratives, and online communities that may present a disruptive or threatening interest in OpenAI, its personnel, offices, events, or public-facing activities.
Track and report key threat assessment metrics, trends, and recurring indicators to help the team identify patterns, prioritize resources, and improve the overall threat management process.
Partner closely with Executive Protection, GSOC, Resilience, Workplace, Legal, People, Communications, and Information Security to assess and manage threatening or disruptive incidents.
Build and maintain relationships with law enforcement, external investigative partners, intelligence vendors, peer companies, and professional threat assessment networks.
Stay current on threat assessment methodologies, behavioral threat research, OSINT techniques, and emerging technology that can improve the team’s ability to detect, assess, and manage risk.