Threat Intelligence Lead

🇺🇸In-Person - Arlington, VA$130K–$180K/yri3h ago

Corporate Research Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity Team Leadership Malware Analysis

Summary

Threat Intelligence Lead at KnowBe4 will drive threat intelligence strategy and operations to protect the organization's HRM+ platform and customers against emerging cyberthreats, including AI-powered and deepfake attacks. This role is critical to KnowBe4's mission of reducing human risk across the global workforce.

Key Responsibilities: Lead threat intelligence initiatives, analyze emerging threats targeting human risk management, coordinate intelligence operations, and develop threat briefings for security and product teams. Collaborate with external threat research communities and integrate intelligence findings into KnowBe4's defensive strategies.

Skills & Tools: Deep expertise in threat intelligence, cybersecurity analysis, and AI-powered threat landscapes; strong leadership, communication, and strategic thinking abilities; experience with threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, and security research.

Qualifications: 7+ years in cybersecurity or threat intelligence with at least 3 years in a leadership role; demonstrated experience tracking advanced persistent threats and emerging attack vectors; relevant security certifications (CISSP, GIAC, or equivalent) preferred.

Location: Arlington, Virginia

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation for this role is $160,000 – $210,000/year based on title, seniority, and location.

Job Description

KnowBe4 is the global leader in Human Risk Management, trusted by over 70,000 organizations worldwide to secure their employees and AI agents for over 15 years. We're pioneering a new era of security. AI-powered since 2016. And market-leading since day one.

Our HRM+ combines continuous risk intelligence, advanced technical defenses, and personalized training to help organizations build strong security cultures. We help organizations understand, measure, and reduce human risk across their entire workforce, defending against, deepfakes, and emerging AI-powered threats.

We believe that protecting organizations from cyberthreats and creating a positive environmental impact go hand in hand. True resilience is collective, it requires us to protect our people, our data, and our planet.

The Threat Researcher Lead works in the KnowBe4 Threat Research Lab, and is responsible for leading teams to understand the cyber threat landscape in order to enable KnowBe4’s capabilities across business functions. This involves researching criminal TTP’s and ensuring KnowBe4’s solutions are effective in mitigating these threats. Additionally using this intelligence to further all business goals.

Responsibilities:

Lead a team of researchers to deliver on research projects and unlock additional revenue for the business, through providing cyber expertise.
Independently and competently analysing trends and patterns in large data-sets to establish threat trends across regions, industries and business segment sizes.
Have a passion for cyber security and thrive on solving difficult and complex problems.
Have a genuine interest in mitigating phishing attacks and be knowledgeable with recent vulnerabilities in our space.
Experienced in investigating phishing emails and malware analysis (Configuration of isolated Malware Analysis VM, Identification of File Formats, Basic Static & Dynamic analysis)
Experience with Threat Actor Tools and techniques.
Enjoy sharing knowledge and help to upskill and educate team members
Experience in translating technical terminology to brief external stakeholders.
Experience in handling internal stakeholders.
Assist and enable various departments within KnowBe4 with Threat Intelligence.
Experience at communicating Threat knowledge in a customer facing environment.
Triage, investigate, and respond to alerts coming in from the Knowbe4 email platform efficiently and without support.
Independent research projects to contribute regularly to external-facing Knowbe4 Threat Labs content, such as blogs.

Qualifications

BS or equivalent plus 5 years experience
MS or equivalent plus 4 years experience
Minimum of 2 year experience in a management role
Well versed with IOCs, reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking
Extensive experience in malicious URL and phishing email analysis
Familiarity with Python automation
Strong experience with public speaking
Strong experience in customer-facing environments
Strong experience with triaging complex customer queries.
Strong experience with cross-functional work, working closely with other departments
Experience with database (SQL or MQL) preferable

Our Fantastic Benefits

We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment. For more details about our benefits in each office location, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/benefits.

Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.

Individuals seeking employment at KnowBe4 are considered without prejudice to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/request-accommodation.

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