Senior Vice President, Cyber Risk Advisory

This role is open to candidates located in New York City or Washington, D.C. (and surrounding areas) or those willing to relocate.

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future. Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand‑alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance and ESG. The firm has more than 1,800 employees located in 50+ offices around the world.

About Teneo’s Risk Advisory

Teneo Risk Advisory is one of five business segments within Teneo, alongside Strategy & Communications, Management Consulting, Financial Advisory, and People Advisory. We are focused on offering CEOs and management teams a holistic approach to identifying, managing, and mitigating operational, reputational, event, and strategic risks to their businesses. The business segment is comprised of a world‑class team of practitioners, investigators, analysts, technical advisors, and strategic partners with a broad array of operational and advisory backgrounds from the world’s most respected corporate, military, intelligence, consulting, technology, public health, and public‑safety organizations. Our team’s vast experience and backgrounds equip us to address a myriad of internal and external threats that CEOs must navigate daily. Teneo Risk Advisory helps organizations protect their most valuable assets: people, information, and infrastructure. Our tenet is prevention, problem‑solving, and partnership with our clients. We provide comprehensive strategic guidance to build risk awareness, resiliency, and mitigation and bring an added dimension to our clients’ risk‑management capabilities. Our core offerings are Risk Intelligence, Resilience Advisory, Crisis Preparedness and Response, and Cyber Security Risk Management.

A Senior Vice President within Teneo Risk Advisory is a core team member, leading target development and technical collection planning in support of client engagements. This is an operational role for someone with a strong record of execution in high‑consequence environments, ideally from CIA technical operations or a comparable government operational background. The right candidate is not an academic analyst. This person must be able to work from incomplete and imperfect information, connect disparate technical and behavioral indicators, and arrive at defensible, correct judgments that can guide action. The role requires deep familiarity with modern digital ecosystems, including adtech, commercially available data, mobile identifiers, network infrastructure, and other exploitable sources of technical and signals‑derived information. The successful candidate is able to quickly understand clients’ operational requirements and frame the right technical problem and produce clear, correct, and useful judgments that are concise and contain actionable next steps. The individual proactively identifies connections others miss across technical infrastructure, commercial data, and behavioral indicators and brings discipline, credibility, and mature judgment to sensitive client work. The successful candidate will help to improve the firm’s ability to assess and act on technical exposure in complex, real‑world environments and identify how subjects, executives, organizations, and networks can be discovered, characterized, tracked, and exposed through a combination of technical tradecraft, commercially available information, and operational judgment. Essentially, the individual must also be able to articulate in clear, non‑technical terms, the recommendations and remediation measures necessary to solve the problem. The ability to clearly translate technical components into digestible action steps with clear rationale is fundamental.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate client requirements into practical targeting and collection plans.
• Identify and prioritize targets across devices, networks, infrastructure, identities, and dependencies.
• Develop operational target packages outlining access points, vulnerabilities, exposure, collection options, and key gaps.
• Leverage commercial data, adtech ecosystems, bidstream, MAIDs, and metadata to assess discoverability and tracking risk.
• Apply commercially available and technical data to independently reconstruct targets, activities, and patterns in support of operational objectives.
• Connect technical, commercial, and behavioral data to establish non-obvious linkages and patterns of life.
• Conduct analysis across network, host, wireless, signal, geospatial, and metadata layers as required.
• Assess feasibility and likely value of collection approaches; distinguish practical options from theoretical ones.
• Produce clear, decision-ready outputs (diagrams, exposure assessments, timelines, link analysis).
• Brief findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders and clients.
• Develop repeatable methodologies and playbooks for targeting and collection.
• Maintain disciplined documentation and evidentiary support.
• Operate within applicable legal, regulatory, and policy constraints.

Basic Qualifications

• Deep understanding of network architecture, internet protocols, routing, DNS, HTTP/S, email infrastructure, wireless communication protocols, and modern enterprise environments.
• Strong technical targeting and exposure‑mapping capability across devices, accounts, infrastructure, identifiers, and third‑party dependencies.
• Experience with link analysis, metadata analysis, protocol analysis, geolocation methods, and data fusion.
• Working knowledge of mobile ecosystem identifiers, adtech‑related data flows, brokered data, and associated privacy and collection considerations.
• Ability to distinguish meaningful indicators from noise and focus effort on what will materially improve operational judgment.
• Comfort working independently, exercising discretion, and making high‑quality decisions without excessive structure or supervision.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to clearly translate technical concepts into tangible action steps intended for non‑technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5–8 years experience in CIA technical operations is strongly preferred.
• Experience in other IC, DoD, or allied operational units with a comparable mission set will be considered.
• Familiarity with SIGINT, GEOINT, CYBER, and HUMINT cross‑cueing in support of operational target development.
• Experience working with mobile data, location data, adtech‑related telemetry, data broker holdings, or other commercially available technical datasets.
• Experience in executive protection, operational security, exposure analysis, or sensitive client‑facing engagements.
• Relevant technical certifications are welcome but are secondary to operational record and judgment.
• Strong scripting and automation capability, preferably in Python, Bash, or similar tools, for data processing, enrichment, and workflow support.

What We Offer

As a Teneo employee, your compensation is performance based and you'll enjoy unique benefits including flexible time off policy; medical, dental, and vision coverage; long‑term disability, and life insurance; a 401K plan; commuter benefits; team events; snacks; and other perks.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Teneo is an equal opportunity employer and promotes an inclusive workplace. Teneo considers all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or sexual orientation or any other status protected by applicable law.

Base Salary Range: $190,000–$200,000 (Compensation for this role will depend on several factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience that may fall outside of the range listed).

Total Compensation Package: Includes annualized bonus, 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of additional benefits and perks.

Flexible Work Policy: Teneo believes in in‑person collaboration when possible and if you are assigned to the New York or Washington, DC office, the company's expectation is for employees to work from the office location a minimum of three days a week.