Senior Threat Analyst, Rapid Response - AI Fearlessly

TrendAI; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

TrendAI, the AI security leader and Trend Micro unit, seeks a senior contributor to lead rapid response for TRII. You will own the program, define workflows, and deliver timely, publication‑ready analysis for media, customers, and field teams.

You will collaborate with Threat Ops, AI Labs, and Threat Hunt to finalize the framework, scale it globally, and ensure rigorous, accurate editorial output while advancing automation and marketplace signals.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience as a cyber threat intelligence analyst with published analysis under time pressure.
• Strong technical writing that conveys deep technical material to varied audiences.
• Breadth across threat landscape including state actors, criminal operations, vulnerabilities and AI threats.
• Judgment about what is worth publishing.
• Experience building or improving processes, not only operating inside one.
• Comfort working asynchronously across a distributed team and documenting work clearly.

Responsibilities

• Own the rapid response model globally for TRII, scaling the framework from regional to global.
• Run the activation path end to end: signal, score, tier, activate.
• Merge scoring systems so one score routes both publication and activation.
• Close the gap between threat rapid response and market signals processes.
• Stand up and run the listening function for threat signals and market news.
• Draft and edit tactical output with experts for accuracy.
• Set editorial standards for timely, technically correct output.
• Escalate and resolve blocked work with the Director.
• Automate monitoring/drafting with AI where appropriate.
• Contribute to weekly top threats communications and sales enablement.
• Represent rapid response in monthly business reports.

Skills

Cyber threat intelligence

Technical writing

Threat landscape breadth

Publish decision judgment

Process improvement

Distributed/async work

Tools

Jira

Editorial workflow

Automated drafting tools

Job description

TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk. At TrendAI™, we’re always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together. Here, your work goes beyond building a career. You will help protect what matters and play a vital role in shaping a safer, more trustworthy AI-powered future. AI Fearlessly.

About the role

TRII turns TrendAI threat research into published work that reaches media, customers and the field. Rapid response is the fastest tier of that work: breaking and time-sensitive analysis published on a one to three day cycle, and the source of most of the team’s media pickups. This role leads that function. It is a senior individual contributor position rather than a people management one. Writers report to the Director. This role owns the work, sets the standard for it, and is the escalation point for it. The function is being built rather than maintained. A framework exists and is running regionally, the pipeline that feeds it is coming online, and the person in this role will finish building it and then run it globally.

What you will own

• Own the rapid response model globally for TRII, scaling the existing framework from regional implementation to the standard the whole team works to, and finalizing the RACI with Threat Ops, AI Labs and Threat Hunt.
• Run the activation path end to end: signal, score, tier, activate. Decide what TRII responds to, at what tier, and against what service level, holding P0 to a one to two day turnaround and keeping tactical publication inside the one to three day cycle.
• Merge the two scoring systems now in use into one. A story should be scored once, and that score should route both publication and commercial activation rather than running as two parallel judgments.
• Close the gap between the threat rapid response process and the market signals process run by product marketing, so that TRII operates one process rather than negotiating between two.
• Stand up and run the listening function for threat, incident and breach signals, and for the market news that matters, working with Threat Research and Market Amplification rather than duplicating what they already watch.
• Carry the drafting and first-pass editing of tactical output, working with threat researchers as expert reference to validate assumptions, analysis and technical accuracy rather than routing drafts to them for authorship.
• Set and hold the editorial standard for tactical output: technically correct, saying something TrendAI is uniquely positioned to say, and reaching publication without losing the timeliness that made it worth publishing.
• Serve as the escalation point for tactical work that is contested, blocked or moving too slowly, and bring it to the Director when it cannot be resolved inside the function.
• Work with the AI and automation function to automate the monitoring and drafting steps that do not need a person, so that analyst time goes to judgment rather than collection.
• Contribute to the weekly cadence of top threats communications, and to getting that work to the sales teams and customers with links back to the deeper reports.
• Represent rapid response in the monthly business report and the leads meeting.

What we are looking for

• Substantial experience as a cyber threat intelligence analyst, including a record of publishing analysis under time pressure that held up afterwards.
• Strong technical writing. You can take work from a technically deep source and make it land with a CISO, a practitioner and a journalist without flattening what makes it interesting.
• Breadth across the threat landscape. This role reads across nation state activity, criminal operations, vulnerabilities and emerging AI threats, and decides quickly what deserves a response.
• Judgment about what is worth publishing. A good deal of the value of this role is the decision not to respond to something.
• Experience building or materially improving a process, not only working inside one.
• Comfort working asynchronously across a distributed team, and the discipline to write things down so that work survives a handoff.

Desired Qualifications

• Risk modeling or quantitative threat assessment.
• Experience with incident communications or newsroom-style operations.
• Familiarity with Jira-based intake and editorial workflow.
• Experience working alongside automated drafting or summarization tooling.
• Public speaking, briefing or media experience.

At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. Trend Micro provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. Trend Micro does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy and childbirth or related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care leave status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk. Trusted by the largest enterprises and governments across 185 countries, TrendAI™ secures the entire organization, from identities to infrastructure to data. We embrace change, empower our people, and foster innovation in an increasingly connected world. Our diverse, multicultural workforce is at the heart of our global success. At TrendAI™, we’re always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together. Here, your work goes beyond building a career. You will help protect what matters and play a vital role in shaping a safer, more trustworthy AI-powered future.

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