Cyber Intelligence Director

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Plano, TX +1 · Corporate Sector

This role focuses on cyber intelligence and threat research, analyzing sophisticated adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), including potential AI-augmented attacker behavior. The Director will conduct hands-on technical research, translate findings into actionable guidance, provide rapid investigation support during high-priority incidents, and build practical technical solutions like scripts and automation. The role also involves driving deeper research into nation-state threats and AI-enabled threat activity to inform operational readiness and prioritization, bridging intelligence, attack analysis, and vulnerability management.

What you'd actually do

  1. Hands-on technical research and analysis of cyber espionage activity, including APT TTPs, adversary infrastructure, and intrusion lifecycle behaviors, and you will translate technical detail into clear, actionable guidance for operational response.
  2. You will augment CyberOps during high-priority incidents by providing rapid investigation support, hypothesis-driven analysis, and durable outputs such as detection logic, enrichment, and incident-ready playbook improvements.
  3. You will build practical technical solutions like scripts, automation, enrichment tools, detection prototypes, and AI-assisted analysis workflows, that shorten time-to-answer and raise consistency across investigations .
  4. You will drive deeper research into nation-state threats, emerging vulnerabilities, supplier risk, AI-enabled threat activity, and targeted campaigns relevant to the firm, producing outputs that directly inform operational readiness and prioritization.

Skills

Required

  • technical intrusion analysis
  • cyber threat research
  • sophisticated adversaries
  • espionage-aligned tradecraft
  • operational outcomes
  • detection logic
  • enrichment
  • triage improvements
  • technical write-ups
  • attacker behaviors
  • credential misuse
  • persistence
  • lateral movement
  • data staging
  • covert exfiltration
  • stealth techniques
  • automation
  • scripts
  • parsers
  • enrichment utilities
  • workflow tooling

Nice to have

  • AI-augmented attacker behavior
  • AI-assisted analysis workflows
  • AI-enabled threat activity

What the JD emphasized

  • Over 20+ years of conducting technical intrusion analysis and cyber threat research focused on sophisticated adversaries (espionage-aligned tradecraft).
  • Demonstrated ability to produce operationally useful outcomes: detections, enrichment, triage improvements, and clear technical write-ups that drive action.
  • Proven capability to build and maintain lightweight automation to support investigations (scripts, parsers, enrichment utilities, workflow tooling).