Senior Protective Intelligence Specialist - Digital Exposure Assessment & Reduction

Vanguard; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard seeks a Senior Protective Intelligence Specialist to support global executive protection by identifying and mitigating threats to senior leaders and their families, with a focus on digital exposure and OSINT tradecraft.

You will draft executive-facing exposure reduction plans, manage the PII takedown pipeline, coordinate vendor tasks, and maintain the monitoring stack to enable rapid, discreet briefings for senior leaders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in related field with OSINT analysis.
• Experience with data brokers, people-search platforms, and PII removal.
• Strong written/verbal communication for executive briefings.
• High ethical standards and discretion.
• Ability to brief senior leaders under time pressure.
• Cross-functional collaboration with vendors.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive online exposure assessments across open-source streams.
• Produce executive-facing exposure reduction plans with prioritized recommendations.
• Manage the PII takedown pipeline and verify removals.
• Maintain exposure ratings per criteria-based scale.
• Administer monitoring stack: watchlists, alerts, coverage validation.
• Support investigations with advanced OSINT techniques.

Skills

OSINT

Threat assessment

Executive briefings

Privacy & ethics

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

OSINT tools

Vendor management

Job description

We are seeking a highly capable Senior Protective Intelligence Specialist to support the protection of senior Vanguard executives globally. This role is responsible for supporting the program’s efforts to identify, assess, and mitigate threats to executives and their families, and on building a mature, intelligence-led capability that directly enables executive protection operations. The position’s focus is on digital exposure work: drafting assessments that identify what a threat actor could learn about Vanguard’s senior leaders from open sources, and producing executive-facing reduction plans that translate those findings into practical remediation. The successful candidate will operate the personally identifiable information (PII) takedown pipeline, coordinate vendor tasking and SLA oversight, uphold the program’s established OSINT tradecraft standards, and administer the monitoring stack that feeds daily triage. This role suits a deeply technical OSINT practitioner who thinks like an adversary, documents like an auditor, and can brief digital exposure findings with clarity, discretion, and practical next steps for senior leaders. This role strengthens Global Physical Security’s ability to reduce executive exposure before it becomes a protective intelligence concern, combining technical discovery, remediation coordination, and executive-ready communication.

Digital Exposure Assessment & Reduction

• 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.

Monitoring Stack & Tradecraft

• 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.

Program Contribution

• 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.

Team Model - Primary Focus, Universal Capability

• 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.

Required 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• OSINT certification (e.g., C|OSINT, SANS SEC487) or equivalent demonstrated tradecraft.
• Experience managing security or privacy vendors against SLAs.
• Familiarity with executive protection or protective intelligence programs.
• Scripting or automation skills or collection and monitoring efficiency.

Special Factors

• Participation in an on-call rotation for after-hours escalation support.

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.