Protective Intelligence Analyst- OSINT Monitoring and Triage

Vanguard; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a Protective Intelligence Analyst to manage daily alert queues, triage inbound items, and provide real-time assessment during executive travel. The role emphasizes monitoring and contributing to threat assessments within a hybrid work environment.

You will collaborate with teams to refine OSINT feeds, ensure watchlist hygiene, and support rapid decision-making at senior leadership levels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• Minimum of three years in intelligence analysis, GSOC/watch operations, journalism/research, or military/law-enforcement analysis.
• Ability to handle high-volume queues with consistent, accurate decisions.
• Strong OSINT skills to verify and assess credibility across open sources.
• Comfort with reading concerning content and escalating appropriately.
• High ethical standards and discretion when handling sensitive information.
• Excellent written and verbal communication to brief senior leaders.
• Ability to think critically when information is incomplete or conflicting.

Responsibilities

• Triage and monitor daily alert queues and intake channels.
• Disposit items as unfounded with documented rationale or escalate.
• Provide monitoring during executive travel and events.
• Maintain watchlist hygiene and OSINT feeds.
• Maintain protective intelligence trackers and dashboards.
• Conduct OSINT collection and analysis for assessments.
• Draft weekly intelligence summaries.
• Process intake acknowledgements and records handling.

Skills

OSINT skills

Written and verbal communication

Discretion and ethics

High-volume queue management

Critical thinking

Threat assessment awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Threat intelligence platforms

Case management systems

OSINT collection tools

Job description

Monitoring & Triage

• Manage daily alert and intake queues: vendor alerting feeds, the program’s intake channels, executive-assistant and partner referrals, and regional intelligence routing.

• Triage inbound items against the program’s established threat screening criteria; disposition items as unfounded with documented rationale or open cases for investigation.

• Provide dedicated monitoring coverage during executive travel and event windows, assessing emerging developments in real time and escalating per defined criteria.

• Maintain watchlist hygiene and help fine tune OSINT feeds to ensure reliable threat identification.

Case Management & Intelligence Production

• Maintain key protective intelligence trackers/metrics: request log, alert log, case entries, product IDs, and dashboard integrity.

• Conduct OSINT collection and analysis for protective intelligence assessments, documenting sources and findings and contributing analytic judgments to final products.

• Draft the program’s weekly intelligence summary, synthesizing alert activity, case developments, and emerging threat trends into concise, decision-ready reporting.

• Process intake acknowledgements and maintain records-handling standards for intake channels.

Team Model – Primary Focus, Universal Capability

• Triage and monitoring is the primary focus of this role, not an exclusive lane. Every Protective Intelligence Analyst trains to produce the program’s core assessment products to standard, rotates through triage and monitoring coverage, and serves as designated backup for at least one other product line, so the team carries no single points of failure.

• Cross‑train teammates in triage and monitoring, maintain current proficiency in teammates’ specialties, and participate in the program’s dual‑review and after‑action practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, intelligence studies, security studies, psychology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Minimum of three years of related experience in a field such as intelligence analysis, GSOC/watch operations, journalism/research, or military/law‑enforcement analysis.

• Demonstrated ability to work a high‑volume queue with consistency, accuracy, and documented decisions.

• Strong OSINT skills, including the ability to locate, verify, and assess the credibility of information across open sources.

• Comfort with reading concerning or threatening content professionally and escalating appropriately.

• High ethical standards and discretion when handling sensitive executive and corporate information.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief senior leaders clearly and calmly under time pressure.

• Proven ability to think critically and assess incomplete, ambiguous, or conflicting information.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience with threat intelligence, alerting, or case management platforms.

• Formal training or applied experience in threat assessment, targeted violence prevention, or intelligence analysis.

• ATAP membership, with active interest or progress toward obtaining the Certified Threat Manager (CTM) designation.

Special Factors

• Participation in an on‑call rotation for after‑hours escalation support as the program matures.

• Early‑morning queue coverage; occasional evening and weekend surge coverage during executive travel windows.

• Occasional domestic travel (<10%).

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don’t just have a mission—we’re on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients’ lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in‑person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission‑driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long‑term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.