Senior Intelligence Analyst I

About the role

Flashpoint is seeking a Senior Intelligence Analyst I to join our Corporate Security team in a remote capacity. The ideal candidate will leverage proprietary tools, internal data sources, and external tools to synthesize data and enhance analysis/alerting services for our clients' operational needs.

Responsibilities

• Leverage proprietary tools, internal data sources, and external tools to synthesize data and enhance analysis/alerting services for our clients' operational needs.
• Build and refine complex keyword sets and Boolean logic to maximize relevant coverage across diverse community types.
• Work directly with enterprise client teams to understand their collection priorities and translate those into actionable sourcing strategies.
• Collaborate with internal collections, product, and engineering teams to operationalize new sources at scale.
• Contribute to documentation and tradecraft standards that help the broader team replicate your sourcing methods.
• Safely navigate virtual environments for supporting assigned tasks, as applicable.
• Write high-quality tactical and strategic assessments to inform risk intelligence decision-making process.

Requirements

• Navigate illicit online communities, forums, marketplaces, closed channels and understand how they operate, how they shift, and what makes a source valuable versus noisy.
• Build complex keyword queries to surface relevant intelligence across large, unstructured datasets.
• Understand the difference between a high-signal source and a high-volume one, and know which matters more depending on the use case.
• Auditing a subset of existing sources and delivering an initial assessment of quality and relevance.
• Identify and propose at least 3–5 net-new source candidates with documented rationale for each.
• Building and testing keyword sets against live data with minimal guidance.
• Contributing to the team's sourcing methodology documentation.
• Successfully onboard at least one new source into the active collections pipeline.
• Identifying at least one systemic gap in current coverage and proposing a plan to address it.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience finding, evaluating, and monitoring sources within illicit or gray-area online communities.
• The ability to construct complex Boolean or keyword queries that are precise enough to reduce noise without missing critical coverage.
• Experience working against external stakeholder requirements — understanding what a client actually needs versus what they asked for.

Skills

• Understanding of threat intelligence methodologies and tools.
• Experience with data analysis and interpretation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Benefits

• Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Equity commitment.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth.
• Health and wellness perks including gym reimbursements and expensed lunches.
• Inclusive employee events and cultural initiatives.

Pay

Competitive compensation package based on experience.

Schedule

Remote work arrangement.

What You Will Get To Do On Our Team

Leverage our proprietary tools, internal data sources, and external tools to synthesize data and enhance analysis/alerting services for our clients' operational needs.

Build and refine complex keyword sets and Boolean logic to maximize relevant coverage across diverse community types.

Work directly with enterprise client teams to understand their collection priorities and translate those into actionable sourcing strategies.

Collaborate with internal collections, product, and engineering teams to operationalize new sources at scale.

Contribute to documentation and tradecraft standards that help the broader team replicate your sourcing methods.

Safely navigate virtual environments for supporting assigned tasks, as applicable.

Write high-quality tactical and strategic assessments to inform risk intelligence decision-making process.

What You Will Achieve Within 30 days

• Completed onboarding and have a working understanding of Flashpoint's existing collections infrastructure and source taxonomy.
• Met with the client team and can articulate their top collection priorities and current coverage gaps.
• Audited a subset of existing sources and delivered an initial assessment of quality and relevance.

What You Will Achieve Within 60 days

• Identified and proposed at least 3–5 net-new source candidates with documented rationale for each.
• Built and tested keyword sets against live data with minimal guidance.
• Began contributing to the team's sourcing methodology documentation.

What You Will Achieve By 90 days

• Successfully onboarded at least one new source into the active collections pipeline.
• Keyword frameworks are being used or iterated on by peers.
• Operating as a full contributor on client collection priorities, with a clear backlog of source candidates you own.
• Identified at least one systemic gap in current coverage and proposed a plan to address it.