Associate Director, Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigations

Position Overview

As an Associate Director in Hilco Global's Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice, you will oversee complex digital forensics and cyber-enabled investigations, manage multiple technical work streams, and serve as a key leader in both execution and practice development. The role focuses on digital evidence, cyber-enabled fact development, user and system activity reconstruction, data movement analysis, device and cloud evidence, and investigative findings that help clients and counsel understand what happened, who was involved, when events occurred, and how digital systems or data were used.

• Lead large or high-complexity digital forensics and cyber investigations from scoping and preservation through analysis, reporting, and presentation of findings.
• Oversee forensic collections and analyses involving endpoints, mobile devices, email, cloud repositories, collaboration tools, enterprise systems, logs, and other digital evidence sources.
• Direct user-activity reconstruction, data movement and deletion analysis, access-log analysis, communications analysis, and other digital fact-development work streams.
• Advise clients and counsel on evidence preservation, collection strategy, data scoping, chain of custody, technical limitations, and defensible investigative methodology.
• Serve as a primary day-to-day contact for clients, external counsel, IT, security, HR, compliance, and senior stakeholders on digital evidence issues.
• Review technical work papers, forensic reports, timelines, exhibits, declarations, and other client-facing deliverables.
• Manage engagement economics, resource planning, technical risk, deadlines, and quality-control considerations.
• Coach and develop Managers, Associates, Analysts, and other team members across active matters.
• Help drive consistency in methodology, defensibility, tool usage, documentation, and execution across the practice.
• Support proposals, pitches, thought leadership, recruiting, training, vendor relationships, and strategic growth initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships and connect digital forensics work with Hilco’s broader investigations, disputes, restructuring, valuation, and advisory capabilities where relevant.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, cyber security, digital forensics, accounting, finance, business or a related discipline required; master’s degrees or other advanced technical degrees strongly encouraged.
• Approximately 7-10 years of relevant experience in digital forensics, forensic technology, cyber investigations, insider-risk investigations, incident investigation, or related consulting services.
• Significant experience managing complex, multi-workstream digital forensics matters and interacting directly with senior clients and counsel.
• Strong technical grounding in forensic preservation, collection, artifact analysis, chain of custody, user-activity reconstruction, log analysis, and defensible reporting.
• Experience with leading forensic and investigative technologies such as EnCase, FTK, Cellebrite, Magnet AXIOM, X-Ways, Nuix, Relativity, Microsoft Purview, Google Vault, Crowd Strike, Splunk, or similar platforms.
• Demonstrated leadership in engagement oversight, team development, client service, and technical quality control.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to translate technical findings into clear business, legal, and investigative conclusions.
• Professional credentials such as EnCE, GCFE, GCFA, GASF, CCE, CFCE, CISA, CISSP, RCA, CEDS, or similar certifications are advantageous.
• Strong judgment and ability to operate effectively in sensitive, high-stakes, deadline-driven matters.
• Willingness to travel based on client and business needs.

Annual base salary: $160,000 – $225,000 (geography-based). Additional compensation includes cash bonuses, long-term incentives, health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 401(k) plans, and a robust suite of personal well-being benefits.

Hilco Global is an equal-opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered on merits and without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, gender, veteran, or disability status.