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 astand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include asignificant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100 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 andESG.

The firm has more than 1800 employees located in 50 offices around theworld.

About Teneos Risk Advisory

Teneo Risk Advisory is one of five business segments within Teneo alongside Strategy and 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 led by former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton 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 worlds most respected corporate military intelligence consulting technology public health and public-safety organizations. Our teams 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.

Job Description:

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 firms 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. We work directly with CEOs of major global corporations and their leadership teams including a large percentage of Fortune 100 firms on some of the highest-profile strategic engagements; we hold our people and work to the highest standard.

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 youll 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: $190000-$200000 (Compensation for this role will depend on several factors including a candidates 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 companys expectation is for employees to work from the office location a minimum of three days a week.