Digital Executive Protection Lead

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.

Key responsibilities include:

• 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).
• Producing 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 such as 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.

Benefits:

• 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, a 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.