Job Description:
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.
We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.
Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.
At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
Job Description:
This job is responsible for executing highly complex and sensitive corporate security activities essential to protecting the safety of employees and bank facilities. Key responsibilities include conducting behavioral threat assessments, oversight of the bank’s security preparedness, and management of the bank’s security technology and applications.
The Protective Intelligence Analyst serves as a senior protective intelligence practitioner responsible for identifying, assessing, and communicating threats and risks affecting executive leadership, critical business activities, and enterprise operations. Operating as a trusted advisor to Executive Protection, Corporate Security, Cyber Security, Threat Management, and senior business leaders, this role transforms intelligence into actionable protective measures that support informed decision-making and proactive risk mitigation.
The role provides advanced intelligence analysis, executive threat assessments, strategic planning support, and cross-functional coordination to ensure a cohesive, intelligence-led approach to executive security. Leveraging physical, cyber, and open-source intelligence, the Protective Intelligence Analyst helps anticipate emerging threats, supports executive protection operations, and strengthens organizational readiness in an increasingly complex risk environment.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct Executive Threat Assessments: Analyze and assess threats, vulnerabilities, and emerging risks impacting executives, their families, corporate facilities, and business operations, providing actionable recommendations for mitigation and protection.
- Deliver Intelligence-Led Executive Protection Support: Partner closely with Executive Protection teams to ensure protective operations, executive travel, and high-profile engagements are informed by current intelligence, threat assessments, and situational awareness.
- Produce Strategic Intelligence Products: Develop executive-level intelligence reports, threat briefings, travel assessments, risk summaries, and analytical products that support protective decision-making and operational planning.
- Lead Complex Intelligence Analysis: Apply advanced analytical methodologies and critical thinking to identify patterns, evaluate threats, and assess potential impacts from physical, cyber-enabled, geopolitical, criminal, activist, insider, and reputational risks.
- Leverage Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT): Conduct sophisticated OSINT collection and analysis to identify emerging threats, monitor public sentiment, assess adversarial activity, and support executive protection and investigative efforts.
- Facilitate Cross-Functional Threat Coordination: Coordinate intelligence sharing and risk discussions across Protective Intelligence, Executive Protection, Cyber Security, Threat Management, Incident Response, and other security partners to promote a unified understanding of executive risk.
- Support Cyber-Physical Risk Integration: Collaborate with Information Security and Cyber Intelligence teams to identify converged threats and ensure digital and physical risk indicators are incorporated into executive security planning.
- Support Crisis and Incident Response: Provide intelligence support during security incidents affecting executives or critical business operations, delivering timely threat assessments, situational awareness updates, and analytical recommendations.
- Advise Senior Leaders on Emerging Risks: Brief Corporate Security leadership, Executive Protection leaders, and other key stakeholders on significant threat developments, emerging trends, and evolving executive risk considerations.
- Maintain Strategic External Partnerships: Develop and maintain relationships with law enforcement, intelligence agencies, industry partners, and information-sharing organizations to enhance threat awareness and intelligence exchange.
- Support Executive Travel and Major Events: Provide intelligence assessment, monitoring, and risk analysis for executive travel, public appearances, shareholder meetings, and other high-profile events requiring enhanced security planning.
- Advance Protective Intelligence Capabilities: Contribute to the evolution of protective intelligence methodologies, technologies, reporting standards, training programs, and operating procedures to strengthen the effectiveness of the function.
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in protective intelligence, threat assessment, executive protection, intelligence analysis, law enforcement, military intelligence, federal investigations, cybersecurity intelligence, or a related security discipline.
- Demonstrated experience supporting executive protection programs through intelligence-led risk identification, threat monitoring, and security planning.
- Strong knowledge of protective intelligence methodologies, threat assessment frameworks, behavioral threat indicators, and executive risk management principles.
- Experience conducting intelligence collection and analysis utilizing Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), social media intelligence, public records, commercial databases, and other intelligence sources.
- Experience assessing and communicating physical, cyber-enabled, reputational, insider, and geopolitical threats.
- Superior research skills, including ability to quickly research and provide analysis on complex and unfamiliar topics.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal); proven ability to interact with and effectively support a wide range of consumers, up to and including senior leaders; excellent briefing skills and ability to synthesize large volumes of data quickly for multiple customer sets.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to prepare concise, executive-level intelligence reports, briefings, and recommendations.
- Experience operating in complex, fast paced, and highly sensitive environments requiring discretion, sound judgment, and confidentiality.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted partnerships across security, technology, risk, legal, and business functions.
Desired Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Intelligence Studies, Criminal Justice, Homeland Security, International Relations, Cybersecurity, Public Safety, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience supporting executive security programs within a global corporation, financial institution, government agency, intelligence community, or military organization.
- Familiarity with travel risk management, executive event security, crisis management, and incident response operations.
- Experience leveraging threat intelligence platforms, investigative tools, geospatial intelligence, and advanced analytic technologies.
- Understanding of cyber threat intelligence and its application to executive and organizational risk.
- Proven ability to adapt to changing business needs and balancing multiple competing priorities in an extremely dynamic environment, while maintaining strict deadlines.
Skills:
- Customer and Client Focus
- Problem Solving
- Reporting
- Risk Management
- Written Communications
- Active Listening
- Analytical Thinking
- Critical Thinking
- Decision Making
- Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
- Change Management
- Collaboration
- Continuous Improvement
- Innovative Thinking
- Stakeholder Management
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
