Threat Intelligence Lead; Position Arlington, Virginia Arlington, Virginia

Threat Intelligence Lead (Position located in Arlington, Virginia)

KnowBe4 is a global leader in Human Risk Management, trusted by over 70,000 organizations to secure their employees and AI agents for more than 15 years. We combine continuous risk intelligence, advanced technical defenses, and personalized training to help organizations build strong security cultures.

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

The Threat Intelligence 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 TTPs and ensuring our solutions effectively mitigate these threats, while using the intelligence to support business goals.

• Lead a team of researchers to deliver on research projects and unlock additional revenue for the business through cyber expertise.
• Independently and competently analyze trends and patterns in large datasets to establish threat trends across regions, industries and business segment sizes.
• Have a passion for cybersecurity 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.
• Experience 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 helping 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 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.
• Conduct independent research projects to contribute regularly to external-facing KnowBe4 Threat Labs content, such as blogs.

• BS or equivalent plus 5 years experience.
• MS or equivalent plus 4 years experience.
• Minimum of 2 years 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.

We offer company‑wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses.

Note:

An applicant assessment and background check may be part of this hiring procedure.

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