Rogue Risk Analysis Group (RRAG) Team Leader
San Jose, CA - USA
Job Summary
Apogee Global RMS is a practitionerled enterprise risk management (ERM) advisory firm based in San Jose California. The firm operates on a single thesis the Nexus of Risk that enterprise risk is casually interconnected across strategic financial operational reputational geopolitical and human domains. Apogee governs these domains as one discipline rather than isolated threats.
We serve North American small and midmarket enterprises and publicsector clients across financial services healthcare professional services technology and education. Apogee holds federal SDVOSB and California DVBE certifications.
The Rogue Risk Analysis Group (RRAG) is Apogees risk intelligence and research arm. RRAG produces subscription advisory products executive briefings and intelligence assessments built on the Nexus of Risk framework twelve domains organized across casual consequence and environmental tiers. RRAG also drives the firms thoughtleadership engine including the Risk Apogee podcast and the RRAG webinar series.
This role leads RRAG.
The Team Leader RRAG is a Senior research and analysis seat for a commercially minded analyst who reads the global landscape with rigor writes with authority and builds and runs a team. The Team Leader sets RRAGs intellectual agenda owns a published product line and develops the bench of analysts behind it.
This is a generalist leadership role by design sitting at the intersection of business analysis applied research and geopolitical insight. The Team Leader translates complex world events into decisiongrade intelligence for executives and boards.
As RRAG grows the Team Leader will help recruit specialists including a dedicated cyber analyst to deepen the bench.
RRAG operates as a highstakes lowvolume intelligence environment. Analysts are practitioners not content producers. The Team Leader sets the bar for rigor sourcing and analytic voice.
- Analytical authority: Uphold rigor sourcing discipline and analytic voice across all RRAG products.
- Lean expert teams: Build and direct a small bench of contract analysts; serve as connective tissue across analysts advisors SMEs and firm leadership.
- Intellectual ownership: Set RRAGs agenda and translate world events into concrete business risk and opportunity.
- Set editorial and analytical direction across advisories sector briefings alerts and subscription deliverables.
- Own the publication calendar and quality of every RRAG product.
- Maintain consistency of voice sourcing and analytical standards.
- Publish sharp wellsourced analysis on geopolitical economic regulatory and crossdomain risk.
- Produce decisiongrade work for executive and board audiences.
- Write with authority and stand behind published judgment.
- Recruit mentor and manage contract analysts and future domain specialists.
- Run weekly editorial planning and product reviews.
- Build analytic tradecraft workflows and review discipline that scale.
- Direct primary and opensource intelligence research across all twelve Nexus domains.
- Apply structured analytic techniques to evaluate likelihood impact and intersection effects.
- Maintain sourcing discipline and analytic traceability.
- Build and refine AIassisted research and drafting workflows that increase throughput without compromising rigor.
- Govern AI use under strict review standards.
- Anchor the Risk Apogee podcast RRAG webinar series and RRAGs LinkedIn presence.
- Represent RRAGs analysis to executive and boardlevel audiences.
Requirements
- 6 years in business analysis applied research intelligence analysis or geopolitical/economic analysis with strong commercial orientation.
- Exposure to nationalsecurity intelligence military diplomatic or regulatedindustry environments.
- Strong academic and public writing portfolio; candidates must provide 23 published or sanitized samples.
- Demonstrated OSINT proficiency and structured analytic techniques.
- Evidence of deliberate effective use of AI tools in research and writing workflows.
- Management experience: hiring mentoring and leading analysts or small teams.
- Bachelors degree in a relevant field; advanced degree strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with ERM frameworks (ISO 31000 COSO ERM FAIR).
- Experience in academic thinktank or institutional research.
- Experience launching or running subscriptionbased intelligence or advisory products.
- Experience supporting executive or boardlevel audiences.
- Sets a clear intellectual agenda and holds a high bar without micromanaging.
- Writes with authority and confidence in published judgment.
- Develops people and raises the standard of analysts around them.
- Exercises strong judgment discretion and sourcing discipline under deadline.
- Operates independently in an evolving distributed environment.
Benefits
- Engagement Type: Contract role structured toward ongoing leadership.
- Term: Initial sixmonth engagement; renewal based on performance and product demand.
- Work Model: Fully remote (U.S.); occasional travel for client engagements or offsites.
- Compensation: Marketcompetitive commensurate with experience and scope.
- Work Product: Apogee retains exclusive ownership; standard NDA and IP provisions apply.
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Apogee Global RMS provides equal opportunity to all applicants and team members without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability genetic information marital status veteran status or any other protected characteristic. As a ServiceDisabled VeteranOwned Small Business we welcome applications from veterans and members of the military community.
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