Director, Threat Management & Investigations

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Team Overview

Trans Union's Global Security team protects the company's employees, executives, facilities, operations and reputation by managing physical and digital security risks across its global footprint. Reporting to the Chief Security Officer, this role will manage one team member and oversee third-party intelligence providers, security vendors and contracted executive protection officers.

Hybrid Position Details

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

Role Overview and Core Responsibilities

• Build and lead Trans Union's enterprise-wide Threat Management & Investigations program, establishing scalable processes to identify, monitor, assess, respond to and mitigate threats involving executives and associates.
• Develop global, regional and local threat intelligence using law-enforcement relationships, third-party risk providers and open-source intelligence (OSINT) to support timely risk mitigation and protection decisions.
• Lead internal and external corporate investigations, analyze evidence and intelligence, and deliver clear, objective findings and recommendations to senior leaders and key stakeholders.
• Design and manage holistic executive security programs addressing physical and digital threats, including oversight of contracted armed and unarmed executive protection officers.
• Partner with Human Resources to strengthen workplace-violence prevention and response programs covering harassment, physical threats, assaults, active-shooter incidents and other threats of violence.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity, Human Resources, Legal, Finance and Compliance to identify, investigate and respond to insider-threat incidents and related risks.
• Manage intelligence analysts, third-party providers and security vendors, and support Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) activities and incident response.
• Maintain security-related policies and provide on-call support during emergencies, including weekends, holidays and late nights; travel domestically and internationally up to 25%.

Required Knowledge and Experiences

• Experience leading threat management, investigations or executive security for a global corporation or professional-services firm
• Formal behavioral threat-assessment training and experience building or managing executive security, workplace-violence prevention and insider-threat programs.
• 15+ years of federal law-enforcement experience combined with at least five years of corporate-security experience, including proven leadership of small to medium-sized teams.
• Established corporate and government security contacts across local and federal law enforcement and the intelligence community, with the ability to use those relationships to support threat intelligence and incident response.
• Executive presence, business acumen and project-management capability, with a demonstrated ability to operate strategically and autonomously while influencing senior leaders and collaborating across diverse teams.
• Previously held and eligible for a U.S. Government security clearance; able to respond quickly, make sound decisions under pressure and perform duties that may require extended sitting, standing or walking.
• Advanced knowledge of open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools and methods for identifying, monitoring and assessing physical and digital threats.
• Proficiency with threat-intelligence, case-management, database-management and information-management systems used to document investigations and produce actionable intelligence.
• Experience using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to develop threat and intelligence products, support physical-security applications and improve database and office administration.
• Strong investigation-report writing, editing and policy-development skills, with the ability to communicate complex findings clearly to executive audiences.

Preferred Skills

• Federal law-enforcement leadership experience at the GS-15 or Senior Executive Service (SES) level.
• Working knowledge of Ontic or a comparable case-management and threat-intelligence platform.
• Experience translating security intelligence into strategies that align with a global organization's footprint, risk exposure, risk appetite and business priorities.

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