Digital Executive Protection Lead

This job is with Standard Chartered Bank, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community.

Job Summary

To our office in London we are looking for a Digital Executive Protection and Protective Intelligence Specialist. This role will be responsible for:

• Building and leading the Bank's executive-focused digital protection capability and supporting Standard Chartered Bank's Protective Services (PS) Programme by providing continuous monitoring, assessment, and reporting on threats targeting key executives and higher-risk employees.
• Designing and operationalizing workflows for executive digital protection, driving collection and analysis strategy, intelligence consumption, finished intelligence production and delivery means and methods.
• Supporting complex executive risk assessments, by integrating and providing intelligence across cyber / online threats, credible threats, and persons of interest (POI), with analysis of open-source content, deep and dark web activity, social network exposure, and availability of personal and behavioural information to produce actionable insights that inform enhanced PS measures, executive digital risk, and coordinated responses across the Bank's PS Programme.

Skills and Experience

• Intelligence Analysis
• Data Querying and Analysis
• Social Media and Open Source Intelligence
• General Cyber Security Awareness

Our ideal candidate:

• 4+ years of experience in cyber threat intelligence, protective intelligence, corporate security intelligence, or executive protection intelligence.
• Experience conducting OSINT investigations across social media, forums, messaging platforms, and deep/dark web environments.
• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, intelligence studies, criminology, international relations, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of the intelligence cycle, structured analytical techniques, source evaluation, and intelligence production standards.
• Demonstrated ability to assess credibility and severity of threats, distinguishing between noise, harassment, activism, and credible hostile intent.
• Experience producing concise, decision-ready intelligence reports and executive briefings.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with experience interacting with senior leadership or security partners.
• Experience using threat intelligence platforms and tools (e.g., Synapse, MISP, Intel471, Recorded Future, etc.).
• Familiarity with digital exposure monitoring concepts, including doxxing risk, impersonation, social engineering targeting, and data leak monitoring.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with high levels of discretion and professionalism.
• Solid understanding of privacy, governance, and compliance considerations in monitoring executive-related information.

Nice To Have

• Experience in corporate security, GSOC, protective services, or executive protection environments.
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with digital risk protection platforms or social media intelligence tools.
• Certifications such as GCTI, GOSI, OSIP, CPP (ASIS) or equivalent intelligence/security credentials.
• Experience supporting incident response where digital threats intersect with physical risk.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you.

You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us. Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do.
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well.
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term.

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing. Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations. Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum. Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns. Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits. A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning. Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.