[Hiring] Threat Investigator Team Lead @Discord

Role Description

As Threat Investigations Team Lead, you will manage and develop a team of investigators and analysts responsible for detecting, investigating, and disrupting ongoing and emerging threats.

• Manage, coach, and develop a small team of investigators and analysts, setting clear expectations and providing timely, actionable feedback.
• Own the team’s investigative quality, workload prioritization, queue health, and performance.
• Serve as the first point of escalation for complex, ambiguous, or high-risk investigations, helping the team make sound and well-documented decisions.
• Act as a player-coach: guide deep-dive network investigations, build the team’s tradecraft across case development, network analysis, proactive detection, and intelligence production, and help the team identify new detection and disruption opportunities.
• Translate investigative signals and subject-matter expertise into recommendations about threat prioritization, policy gaps, and enforcement interventions.
• Coordinate with law enforcement, government, industry, and other external partners when investigations or incidents require external engagement.
• Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development while fostering an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable team culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in threat intelligence, investigations, incident response, or a related field, with at least 2 years of prior people-management experience.
• Deep expertise in at least one extremist or violent-threat-actor ecosystem, with the analytical flexibility to develop proficiency across new harm areas as priorities evolve.
• Demonstrated ability to coach investigators, raise quality standards, deliver constructive feedback, and support the growth of people at different stages of their careers.
• Strong judgment in ambiguous, fast-changing situations — including defining scope, proposing solutions, and driving work to completion with limited oversight — while balancing immediate harm reduction against policy, legal, operational, and company-risk considerations.
• Fluency with investigative and case-management tooling, and the ability to use data and detection signals to guide team priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex and sensitive subjects for non-expert audiences.
• A collaborative approach to cross-functional work, with the ability to build consensus and coordinate across teams, disciplines, and time zones.

Requirements

• Experience supporting teams that regularly work with sensitive or potentially disturbing material.
• Additional language proficiency, particularly in languages relevant to high-harm threat-actor communities.
• Experience presenting complex threat findings to senior leaders or external audiences.

Benefits

• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $132,000 to $148,500 + equity + benefits.
• Salary ranges are determined by role and level, with individual pay influenced by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.