Senior Intelligence Data Lead – OSINT, Social & External Intelligence

About the Role Key Responsibilities Intelligence Data Strategy & Direction

• Define and lead the strategy for sourcing, structuring, and operationalizing external intelligence data across OSINT, social platforms, dark web, and advertising domains for strategic, tactical and operational profiling and tracking of identities.
• Identify high-value data sources and collection approaches aligned with investigative, intelligence, and analytical use cases.
• Ensure alignment between intelligence data capabilities and broader investigative or analytical platforms.

• Lead the design of workflows for data gathering, enrichment, correlation, and contextualization of external intelligence.
• Work closely with engineering teams to guide scalable ingestion pipelines, entity resolution, and data linkage mechanisms.
• Ensure collected data is usable, explainable, and fit for analyst-driven investigations rather than raw accumulation.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and intelligence stakeholders to translate operational needs into platform capabilities.
• Provide direction on prioritization, sequencing, and trade-offs between cost, coverage, depth, accuracy, and reliability.
• Act as a bridge between technical teams and intelligence users, ensuring intent is preserved through execution.

• Define standards for source attribution, confidence scoring, provenance, and traceability of external intelligence data.
• Establish guardrails to reduce false positives, misattribution, and investigative noise.
• Partner with legal, compliance, and security teams to ensure responsible, ethical, and defensible data usage.

• Engage directly with analysts, investigators, and intelligence users to understand real-world workflows and constraints.
• Support customer engagements, solution design discussions, and technical or domain-level demonstrations as needed.
• Serve as a subject‑matter leader on external intelligence sourcing within the organization.

• A product leadership background in intelligence, investigations, advertising, data platforms, or complex analytical systems.
• A technical / engineering background with deep exposure to intelligence data, OSINT workflows, or large‑scale data systems.
• A hybrid profile spanning intelligence operations, engineering, and platform development.

• 6+ years of experience in product leadership, engineering leadership, intelligence systems, or equivalent senior roles.
• Hands‑on exposure to one or more of the following domains:
  • Open‑source intelligence (OSINT)
  • Social media intelligence
  • Dark web or underground ecosystem research
  • Ad‑IDs, cookies or other means of realtime tracking
  • Investigative analysis or threat intelligence
• Strong communication skills and the ability to operate across technical, analytical, and operational teams.

• Understanding of intelligence data collection sources and techniques.
• Familiarity with data enrichment, correlation, entity resolution, and investigative data models.
• Ability to engage meaningfully with engineers on system design without needing to be hands‑on day‑to‑day.

• Background in law enforcement, national security, financial crime, or intelligence analysis.
• Experience working with government or regulated enterprise customers.

• Adoption and sustained usage of external intelligence capabilities by analysts and investigators.
• Improved speed and quality of identity resolution, discovery and contextualization.
• Analyst confidence in externally sourced intelligence inputs.
• Measurable impact on investigative outcomes and customer trust.