Intelligence Analyst I

Are you an entry-level analyst who enjoys helping others monitor the cyber environment while being a part of a global intelligence team that covers all corners of the world?

This role is for a junior threat intelligence analyst to conduct monitoring and detection activities, leveraging internal tools and assessing and communicating risks to customers via tactical-level reports.

Trusted by governments, commercial enterprises, and educational institutions worldwide, Flashpoint helps organizations protect their most critical assets, infrastructure, and stakeholders from security risks such as cyber threats, ransomware, fraud, physical threats, and more. Leading security practitioners—including physical and corporate security, cyber threat intelligence (CTI), vulnerability management, and vendor risk management teams—rely on the Flashpoint Intelligence Platform, comprising open source (OSINT) and closed intelligence, to proactively identify and mitigate risk and stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape. Learn more at www.flashpoint.io.

We have a role for you if you:

• You have patience and superior attention to detail
• You have experience processing large volumes of data without losing focus
• You are a native or near-native speaker of at least one of the following languages: Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, or Japanese
• You dream of breaking into the cybersecurity industry

What you will get to do on our team:

• Quickly understand our customer alerting requirements
• Produce high-quality tactical assessments to inform risk intelligence decision-making process and prevent cybercrime
• Leverage Flashpoint proprietary tools and systems to support assigned tasks
• Synthesize raw data to identify credibility of information and deduce relevance to clientbase
• Build patterns/queries according to syntax rules to highlight high signal data within Flashpoint tools
• Manage customers’ alerting profiles
• Work cross-functionally with Customer Success department to resolve alerting-related issues
• Leverage quantitative and qualitative data to respond to customers’ requests for information
• Understand and articulate security safeguards required to perform job responsibilities
• Nominate new collection sources in support of Flashpoint collections
• Safely navigate virtual environments for supporting assigned tasks as applicable
• Comply with Flashpoint org-wide and Intel team policies and procedures, including Rules of Engagement

What you will achieve:

• Within 30 days
  • You will have been fully onboarded and integrated into a team of professional intelligence analysts and assigned a mentor to guide you through your initial journey at Flashpoint. Your team will have provided you with accesses, resources, and training necessary to begin tackling deliverables

• Within 60 days
  • You will have completed onboarding and familiarized yourself with internal team operations
  • You will have developed a solid understanding of customers’ alerting requirements and started producing high-quality tactical-level reports for assigned customers.
• By 90 days
  • You will have become completely comfortable with handling day-to-day deliverables and tasks on your own and become confident in your abilities to work independently or on a team.
  • You will have become comfortable developing high-precision keywords and patterns, testing them in the FP platform, refining to eliminate irrelevant mentions, and uploading them to customer alerting profiles without supervision
  • You will have carried out your own investigations in support of requests for information
  • You will have become familiar with teams outside of your own team and begun building working relationships to assist you in becoming successful in your career

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Experience sifting through large amounts of data to identify relevant information
• Patience and superior attention to detail
• Ability to focus for long periods of time
• To be native or near-native proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, or Japanese

Base Pay Range: $62,700 – $70,000 plus bonus

Why Flashpoint is a Great Place to Work:

• Diversity. Flashpoint is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity. We recognize that diversity is key to achieving our vision. We believe that every person and their experiences contribute to building a work environment and products and services that will change the world.
• Culture and Belonging. Our company’s culture isn’t something you join, it’s something you build and shape, and each person’s unique backgrounds and experiences contribute to who Flashpoint is and will become. You will have ample opportunities to connect with coworkers through various communication channels and company-funded virtual events: book clubs, happy hours, committees, DIBE discussion group, Donut mixers, local team member meetups and much more.
• Perks. Flashpoint understands that personal wellness is one of the keys to a happy, healthy and productive work environment. That’s why we also prioritize health and wellness perks like gym reimbursements, expensed lunches, cool cultural initiatives and inclusive employee events.
• Career Growth. Flashpoint is invested in the growth of our team members and understands that frequent, two-way feedback is critical to that growth. We encourage regular one-on-ones with your manager, a regular schedule of performance reviews, learning and development opportunities, and guidance through formalized career paths; whether that be towards being a great manager, being a great individual contributor, or a lateral move to gain breadth of knowledge and experience.
• A Great Place to Work. Literally. According to the 99% of employees surveyed, Flashpoint earned designation as a Great Place to Work-Certified™ Company for 2021. 100% of employees agree that new hires are made to feel welcome and appreciated. If you are interested in learning more, please check out our Certified Profile.