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U.S. Bank is seeking a Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead Analyst to help advance the bank's cyber defense mission by identifying, analyzing, and communicating emerging cyber threats that may impact the organization, customers, the financial sector, and the broader threat landscape. This role is focused on hands-on cyber threat intelligence analysis, intelligence production, threat actor research, and turning complex threat information into clear, actionable insights for security teams and business stakeholders.

This person will serve as a senior individual contributor and functional lead within the Cyber Threat Intelligence team. They will be expected to produce high-quality tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence, guide and mentor other analysts, and influence decisions through clear, concise, and well-supported intelligence assessments. The ideal candidate can clearly explain their analytical process, walk through threat intelligence investigations in detail, and connect intelligence findings to defensive actions across threat hunting, detection engineering, incident response, vulnerability management, and executive decision-making.

• Conduct hands-on cyber threat intelligence analysis focused on threat actors, campaigns, tactics, techniques, procedures, infrastructure, malware, phishing activity, ransomware, cybercrime, and emerging financial-sector threats.
• Produce tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence products including threat assessments, intelligence reports, executive briefings, RFIs, threat actor profiles, and actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
• Own and support the intelligence lifecycle, including requirements gathering, collection, analysis, enrichment, dissemination, and feedback.
• Translate raw threat data, OSINT, vendor intelligence, dark web research, internal telemetry, and partner reporting into clear, actionable intelligence.
• Support threat hunting, detection engineering, incident response, vulnerability management, fraud, and broader cyber defense teams with intelligence-driven context and prioritization.
• Develop and refine Priority Intelligence Requirements, collection priorities, analytical workflows, and reporting processes to improve the quality and relevance of CTI outputs.
• Analyze threat actor behavior and map activity to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK to support defensive strategy and risk-based decision-making.
• Brief technical, business, and senior leadership stakeholders on cyber threats, trends, potential business impact, and recommended actions.
• Mentor and guide other analysts through influence, tradecraft coaching, intelligence writing, and analytical review.
• Help mature CTI processes, tools, reporting standards, and intelligence outputs while remaining closely engaged in hands-on analysis.

• 5+ years of hands-on Cyber Threat Intelligence experience in a dedicated CTI, cyber intelligence, or threat intelligence function.
• Demonstrated experience conducting threat actor analysis, adversary tracking, campaign analysis, IOC/TTP analysis, and intelligence production.
• Strong understanding of the intelligence lifecycle, including requirements, collection, analysis, dissemination, and stakeholder feedback.
• Proven ability to produce clear, actionable intelligence reports, assessments, briefings, or RFIs for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience supporting threat hunting, incident response, detection engineering, vulnerability management, or security operations through intelligence outputs.
• Ability to clearly and concisely explain cyber threat intelligence work, including specific examples of methodology, analysis performed, intelligence produced, and resulting action.
• Experience mentoring, guiding, or influencing other analysts as a senior individual contributor or functional lead.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex threat activity into business-relevant risk and decision support.
• Familiarity with cyber threat intelligence tools, vendors, frameworks, and sources such as OSINT, dark web sources, ISACs, Recorded Future, Mandiant, Flashpoint, Anomali, ThreatConnect, VirusTotal, or similar platforms.
• Experience using MITRE ATT&CK or similar frameworks to structure analysis and communicate adversary behavior.

• Cyber threat intelligence experience within financial services, banking, fintech, payments, or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience building or maturing CTI processes such as Priority Intelligence Requirements, collection plans, reporting standards, RFI workflows, or intelligence dissemination models.
• Experience with ransomware, cybercrime, fraud-related threat intelligence, third-party exposure, credential exposure, or financial-sector adversary activity.
• Experience conducting dark web, underground forum, or cybercrime ecosystem research.
• Experience briefing senior leaders, executives, or business stakeholders on cyber threats and risk-based recommendations.
• Exposure to AI use cases within cyber threat intelligence, intelligence collection, analysis acceleration, or reporting efficiency.
• Experience collaborating with external intelligence-sharing groups such as FS-ISAC, InfraGard, CISA, law enforcement, or intelligence community partners.
• Relevant certifications such as GCTI, GCIH, GCFA, CISSP, Security+, or similar cybersecurity/intelligence certifications.