Director, Threat Management & Investigations

TransUnion; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Hybrid work model

Job summary

TransUnion’s Global Security team seeks a senior leader to build and run an enterprise-wide Threat Management & Investigations program. You will develop threat intelligence, oversee investigations, and manage executive protection resources across a global footprint.

You will collaborate with HR, Legal, and Cybersecurity to address insider threats and workplace-violence prevention, while supporting GSOC operations. This hybrid role requires travel up to 25% and leadership of a small team.

Qualifications

• Experience leading threat management, investigations or executive security for a global corporation or professional-services firm.
• 15+ years of federal law-enforcement experience with at least five years in corporate security.
• Established corporate and government security contacts across local and federal law enforcement and the intelligence community.
• Strong investigation-report writing, editing and policy-development skills, with the ability to communicate complex findings to executives.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead TransUnion'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 OSINT to support 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 stakeholders.
• Design and manage holistic executive security programs addressing physical and digital threats, including oversight of armed and unarmed executive protection officers.
• Partner with HR to strengthen workplace-violence prevention and response programs across harassment, threats, and active-shooter incidents.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity, HR, Legal, Finance and Compliance to investigate insider-threats and related risks.
• Manage intelligence analysts, third-party providers and security vendors, supporting GSOC activities and incident response.
• Maintain security policies and provide on-call support during emergencies, including travel up to 25%.

Skills

Threat management leadership

Executive security

Investigation reporting

OSINT expertise

AI in security

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Case-management system

Threat-intelligence platform

Database-management system

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Team Overview

TransUnion'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 TransUnion'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.

Benefits that support every part of your life:

• At TransUnion, we design benefits to help you feel well, do well, and plan well-from day one.
• For Your Health : Enjoy day-one eligibility for medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus supplemental plan options. Spousal, domestic partner, and other eligible dependent coverage is available on select plans. Choose tax‑advantaged HSA and FSA accounts to make everyday care more affordable.
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