Senior Threat Intelligence Specialist (supply Chain & Geopolitical Security)

Weights & Biases Weights & Biases · Data AI · Bellevue, WA +4 · Technology

This role focuses on threat intelligence, specifically in geopolitical and supply chain security, supporting global business operations. The specialist will lead collection, analysis, and operationalization of intelligence related to various global risks, producing actionable insights for different business units. Key responsibilities include monitoring global events, producing intelligence products, managing collection pipelines, designing automation for workflows and tooling, and supporting supply chain resilience. The role requires strong analytical skills, technical aptitude, and the ability to work in ambiguous environments. Experience in threat intelligence, supply chain security, or geopolitical risk analysis is required, with preferred experience in critical infrastructure, hyperscale environments, or intelligence automation using Python/SQL.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead geopolitical and supply chain intelligence efforts in support of global operations, travel security, data center security, executive protection, and market expansion initiatives.
  2. Monitor and assess global events including armed conflict, terrorism, political instability, sanctions, civil unrest, organized crime, regional escalation, and infrastructure disruption, translating developments into actionable business risk assessments.
  3. Produce strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence products including forecasts, executive briefings, travel risk assessments, crisis updates, heat maps, geospatial overlays, dashboards, and early warning alerts.
  4. Identify, integrate, and manage intelligence collection pipelines leveraging open-source intelligence (OSINT), commercial intelligence feeds, geospatial data, proprietary sources, and third-party intelligence platforms.
  5. Design and automate intelligence workflows, alerting mechanisms, and analytical tooling to improve early warning, monitoring, and decision support capabilities.

Skills

Required

  • threat intelligence lifecycle
  • geopolitical risk
  • state instability
  • terrorism
  • organized crime
  • regional dynamics
  • written and verbal communication
  • executive-level briefings
  • analytical products
  • actionable risk assessments

Nice to have

  • critical infrastructure
  • hyperscale environments
  • technology companies
  • global corporate security programs
  • intelligence automation
  • APIs
  • scripting
  • data engineering
  • Python
  • SQL
  • supply chain teams
  • market entry assessments
  • protective intelligence
  • global crisis management programs
  • Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA)
  • GIAC (GISP, GCTI)
  • vendor management
  • intelligence partnerships

What the JD emphasized

  • intelligence collection pipelines
  • intelligence workflows
  • analytical tooling