Senior Associate, Cyber Threat Intelligence

About the role

The Global Cyber Defense team at Pfizer is dedicated to protecting the company's digital assets and infrastructure through proactive threat detection, response, and risk mitigation. The Senior Associate, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) plays a crucial role in collecting, analyzing, and disseminating threat intelligence to support the organization's cyber defense strategies.

Responsibilities

• Contribute analysis aligned to business priorities, risk tolerance, and regulatory considerations.
• Maintain intelligence requirements focused on threats to pharmaceutical R&D, clinical operations, manufacturing, and third-party ecosystems.
• Conduct analysis of threat actors, campaigns, malware, and tactics, techniques, and procedures, with a focus on adversaries relevant to the life sciences sector.
• Partner with SOC and Detection Engineering teams to help translate threat intelligence into detection use cases, alert tuning, and threat-hunting hypotheses.
• Support Incident Response efforts during active investigations by providing adversary context, potential next steps, and mitigation considerations.
• Collaborate with Vulnerability Management teams to help inform remediation prioritization based on active exploitation and threat relevance.
• Engage with threat intelligence vendors, industry sharing groups, and trusted peer communities by monitoring shared intelligence and synthesizing relevant insights.
• Prepare threat intelligence briefings, summaries, and reports that communicate threat trends and potential business impact to stakeholders.
• Support the tracking of CTI metrics and usage indicators to help assess intelligence value and operational impact.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of intelligence processes, tooling, and integration with cyber defense workflows.
• Ensure intelligence activities follow internal policies, data handling requirements, and ethical standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, Intelligence Studies, or a related field, with at least 2 years of experience; OR a Master's degree with more than 0+ years of experience; OR an Associate's degree with 6 years of experience; OR a high school diploma (or equivalent) and 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience working in cyber threat intelligence, security operations, incident response, threat detection, or a related cybersecurity domain.
• Strong understanding of cyber threat actors, common attack techniques, and adversary behaviors affecting enterprise environments.
• Ability to analyze threat data from multiple sources and synthesize it into clear, actionable intelligence.
• Experience producing written intelligence outputs such as threat reports, summaries, or briefings for technical audiences.
• Familiarity with collaborating across SOC, incident response, vulnerability management, or engineering teams.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, with attention to detail and accuracy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with threat intelligence platforms, intelligence lifecycle processes, and structured analytic techniques.
• Knowledge of frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK for adversary and tactic mapping.
• Exposure to supporting detection engineering, threat hunting, or incident response through intelligence inputs.
• Experience in regulated or highly controlled environments (e.g., healthcare, life sciences, financial services).
• Relevant professional certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, GCTI, GCIH, or equivalent intelligence- or security-focused credentials).

Pay

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $79,400.00 to $132,400.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 7.5% of the base salary.

Schedule

This role is a hybrid position, requiring the incumbent to work in the assigned Pfizer office 2-3 days per week, or as needed by the business.

Benefits

We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com).

Other Job Details

Last day to apply: August 6th, 2026

Work Location Assignment: Hybrid

The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.

This role is NOT remote