Threat Investigator Team LeadActive$132K

The opportunity

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on…

What you'll do

  • 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.

What they're looking for

  • Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development: while fostering an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable team culture.
  • + 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.