Senior OSINT & Executive Exposure Lead

Vanguard; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard seeks a Senior Protective Intelligence Specialist to advance threat assessment and mitigation for senior executives globally. The role centers on digital exposure work—drafting assessments, producing executive-facing reduction plans, and managing the PII takedown pipeline—while upholding OSINT standards and coordinating vendor SLAs.

The position emphasizes technical OSINT, adversary-minded analysis, concise briefings for senior leaders, and collaboration with Global Physical Security to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum five years of related experience, with three years OSINT collection/analysis, digital investigations, or privacy/exposure management supporting security outcomes.
• Demonstrated expertise in data-broker ecosystems, people-search platforms, social media exposure, and PII removal processes.
• Strong technical OSINT skills: advanced search, imagery/geolocation basics, platform-specific collection, and cross-platform identity resolution.
• Experience producing client- or executive-facing deliverables that translate technical findings into plain-language action.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive online exposure assessments of protectees across multiple open-source streams.
• Produce executive-facing exposure reduction plans with prioritized, practical recommendations, and support executives through privacy-hardening steps.
• Manage the PII takedown pipeline: coordinate with vendor resources, verify removals, track SLA compliance, and re-validate exposure on a defined cadence.
• Maintain exposure ratings across the protectee population per the program’s criteria-based exposure scale, on tier-driven cadence.
• Administer the program’s monitoring and alerting stack: protectee watchlists, query tuning, alert-routing rules, and coverage validation.
• Apply and enforce the program’s established OSINT tradecraft standards: managed attribution, research-account hygiene, collection documentation, and legal/privacy-compliant practices.
• Support investigations with advanced OSINT: subject identification, account attribution, and online-behavior analysis.
• Track exposure-reduction metrics (percentage remediated, takedown SLA compliance) for program reporting.
• Advise on emerging exposure vectors - new platforms, data brokers, AI-enabled aggregation - and adapt product lines accordingly.
• This specialty is the role's primary focus, not an exclusive lane. Every 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 - the team carries no single points of failure.
• Cross-train teammates in your specialty and maintain current proficiency in theirs; participate in the program’s dual-review and after-action practices.

Skills

OSINT analysis

Executive communication

Privacy management

Data broker ecosystems

Geolocation basics

Cross-platform identity resolution

Plain-language briefing

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

OSINT tooling

Job description

Vanguard seeks a Senior Protective Intelligence Specialist to advance threat assessment and mitigation for senior executives globally. The role centers on digital exposure work—drafting assessments, producing executive-facing reduction plans, and managing the PII takedown pipeline—while upholding OSINT standards and coordinating vendor SLAs.

The position emphasizes technical OSINT, adversary-minded analysis, concise briefings for senior leaders, and collaboration with Global Physical Security to