Geopolitical Analyst (Middle East Specialism) (EU or UK, Remote)

Company Overview

Intel 471 empowers enterprises, government agencies, and other organizations to win the cybersecurity war using the real-time insights about adversaries, their relationships, threat patterns, and imminent attacks relevant to their businesses. The company’s platform collects, interprets, structures, and validates human-led, automation-enhanced intelligence, which fuels our external attack surface and advanced behavioral threat hunting solutions. Customers utilize this operationalized intelligence to drive a proactive response to neutralize threats and mitigate risk. Organizations across the globe leverage Intel 471’s world-class intelligence, our trusted practitioner engagement and enablement, and globally-dispersed ground expertise as their frontline guardian against the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats to fight the adversary — and win.

The Role

Intel 471 is looking for a Geopolitical Analyst with a specialized understanding of Middle East geopolitical issues and their cyber nexus to join our world-class team. The role can be located within the EU or UK on a remote basis.

Successful candidates will have a strong understanding of the geopolitical environment in the Middle East and how it affects strategic operations. Candidates should have experience focussing on Iranian geopolitics and/or foreign affairs. Candidates must also have a solid grasp of how the financially motivated cyber underground functions and how that intersects with wider geopolitics and foreign affairs. Candidates should be self-starters and comfortable creating something independently and working with little supervision.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Be a desk lead and subject matter expert for the Middle East within the Geopolitical Analysis team.
• Maintain a working knowledge of Middle East geopolitics and foreign affairs and how this impacts wider strategic goals/aims of countries in the region and elsewhere.
• Be able to form strong predictive assessments, considering second and third order effects.
• Demonstrate an ability to weigh competing hypotheses, using analytical tools to form conclusions.
• Draw upon open and closed sources of intelligence to form well rounded, multi-sourced Finished Intelligence (FINTEL) reports, graphics and webinars.
• Maintain consistent and accurate ownership and completion of tactical, business-as-usual tasks.
• Work with Intel leadership to identify, plan, execute and close a strategic project of interest.
• Receive and provide guidance, training, and mentoring from/to professional personnel in planning and carrying out activities and assignments.
• Work across multi-disciplined teams to draw upon experience and expertise towards a common goal.
• Deliver the work of your team via virtual threat briefs and webinars.

Education, Experience and Qualification

• Experience creating and editing FINTEL reports, with a keen eye for detail.
• Comfortable building projects from concept to completion.
• Basic understanding of Persian/Arabic script is desirable.
• Able to work under pressure, to tight and changing deadlines.
• Able to analyze large data sets and identify trends, patterns and anomalies to form unique intelligence.
• Exposure to nation-state-related cyber activity and how these groups operate is required.
• Exposure to advanced persistent threats (APT) and their tracking is desirable.
• Demonstrable experience in handling and responding to requests for information (RFIs).
• Ability to weigh competing priorities, manage tradeoffs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with stakeholders, driving to consensus while maintaining a clear focus on overarching business priorities.
• Open minded, stress resistant, and hands on.
• Deep understanding of the Intelligence Cycle and how it affects the analytical workflow.
• Clear and concise communication skills.

The role will report to the Sr. Director of Geopolitical Analysis, but will be expected to interact and work closely with other areas of the company as needed. The role is available anywhere within the EU or UK and involves occasional travel within the US, Europe and Asia. The role requires regular contact with our international team located in North America, South America, Western and Eastern Europe, and Asia so a comfort working with diverse professional and cultural backgrounds is required.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Remote-friendly culture
• Wellness programs
• Employee recognition program
• A variety of professional development opportunities
• Inclusive culture focused on people, customers and innovation

Our Culture

The Intel 471 team is constantly growing and always on the lookout for talented professionals who seek to operate on the forefront of the fight against threat actors impacting our customers and partners. Our culture of humility and quiet professionalism is a core attribute of Intel 471 and everyone within it. Our culture is collaborative, supportive and fast-paced. We're a mission-driven company. We're looking for talented, 'can-do' minded people with a passion for always doing the right thing.

We believe in supporting a progressive culture that allows all our people to be themselves, enjoy exciting opportunities and grow with us. That's why our culture is founded on our core values of openness, inclusion, integrity and client focus, which set the tone for how we work together and treat each other to empower us all – and foster a unique team spirit.

View our Culture Guide to find out more about us and what it’s like to work for Intel 471!

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