Jecona · 6 hours ago
Senior Intelligence Data Lead (OSINT)
Jecona is partnering with an organization that builds intelligent systems to leverage data and automation. They are looking for a senior leader to own and evolve the company's external intelligence and data acquisition capabilities, focusing on open-source intelligence and various data environments.
Management Consulting
Responsibilities
Define and lead the strategy for sourcing, structuring, and operationalizing external intelligence data across OSINT, social platforms, dark web, and advertising domains for strategic, tactical and operational profiling and tracking of identities
Identify high-value data sources and collection approaches aligned with investigative, intelligence, and analytical use cases
Ensure alignment between intelligence data capabilities and broader investigative or analytical platforms
Lead the design of workflows for data gathering, enrichment, correlation, and contextualization of external intelligence
Work closely with engineering teams to guide scalable ingestion pipelines, entity resolution, and data linkage mechanisms
Ensure collected data is usable, explainable, and fit for analyst-driven investigations rather than raw accumulation
Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and intelligence stakeholders to translate operational needs into platform capabilities
Provide direction on prioritization, sequencing, and trade-offs between cost, coverage, depth, accuracy, and reliability
Act as a bridge between technical teams and intelligence users, ensuring intent is preserved through execution
Define standards for source attribution, confidence scoring, provenance, and traceability of external intelligence data
Establish guardrails to reduce false positives, misattribution, and investigative noise
Partner with legal, compliance, and security teams to ensure responsible, ethical, and defensible data usage
Engage directly with analysts, investigators, and intelligence users to understand real-world workflows and constraints
Support customer engagements, solution design discussions, and technical or domain-level demonstrations as needed
Serve as a subject-matter leader on external intelligence sourcing within the organization
Qualification
Required
6+ years of experience in product leadership, engineering leadership, intelligence systems, or equivalent senior roles
Hands-on exposure to one or more of the following domains: Open-source intelligence (OSINT), Social media intelligence, Dark web or underground ecosystem research, Ad-IDs, cookies or other means of realtime tracking, Investigative analysis or threat intelligence
Strong communication skills and the ability to operate across technical, analytical, and operational teams
Understanding of intelligence data collection sources and techniques
Familiarity with data enrichment, correlation, entity resolution, and investigative data models
Ability to engage meaningfully with engineers on system design without needing to be hands-on day-to-day
Preferred
Experience with dark web monitoring, social intelligence platforms, realtime tracking, cookies, Ad-IDs or investigative tooling
Background in law enforcement, national security, financial crime, or intelligence analysis
Experience working with government or regulated enterprise customers
Company
Jecona
At Jecona, we work with companies on an exclusive and retained basis within the skilled trade and technical (AI, ML, Software, Data, Tech Sales) space.
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase