Head of Intelligence Engagements

Head of Intelligence Engagements Location: New York City (On-Site, 5 days) Compensation: $180K–$220K base + meaningful early-stage equity + full benefits (100% employer-paid medical, plus dental and vision). Flexible for an exceptional candidate. Reports To: CEO, CTO & COO About the Client We are a venture-backed technology company that helps large enterprises detect and prevent sophisticated fraud at scale. Our platform combines open-source intelligence, network analysis, and machine learning to surface what our customers cannot easily find on their own: individuals whose hidden online activity contradicts what they have reported, and the organized networks behind coordinated fraud schemes. Those networks look structurally similar to criminal or terrorist networks: interconnected nodes, leadership, accomplices, repeat patterns. We have product-market fit, happy enterprise customers, and strong momentum. The work is real and the upside is in front of us. About the Role We are hiring our first Head of Intelligence to build, own, and be the commercial face of the investigative function at the core of our product. You are the person our enterprise insurance customers meet and trust. When the head of special investigations at a multi-billion-dollar carrier wants to understand how we illuminate the fraud rings on their book, you are the person they sit across from. You own that relationship, you demonstrate and grow the value, and you translate deep investigative work into terms a business leader acts on. Early on you are hands-on: standing up the function, leading the highest-stakes client engagements yourself, and partnering with engineering and data science to turn investigative tradecraft into systems that scale. Over the next twelve to eighteen months you hire and lead the team beneath you — including a VP of Intelligence who owns the deep tradecraft — while you remain the commercial, client-facing leader of the function and the intelligence pedigree our investors point to in the Series A. This is a builder seat, and a commercial one. There is no existing playbook. The right person is energized by owning both the client relationship and the function behind it. What This Role Is Not Not a pure execution-only OSINT seat. The tradecraft is trainable and supported by a VP of Intelligence under you; the seat itself is commercial and client-facing. Not a place for someone who needs a playbook handed to them. Not a strategy-from-a-distance or chief-of-staff-style seat. Not a quota-carrying sales role — but client-facing commercial experience is required, and you own the customer relationship. Not for someone who only wants to be heads-down analytical with no client-facing role. Responsibilities Owning the enterprise client relationship post-contract: being the named face of our intelligence capability, demonstrating value, expanding accounts, and serving as the credibility behind the work Leading the highest-stakes client engagements and investigations, and translating findings into outcomes clients act on (investigations, litigation support, decisions) Hiring and building the intelligence team — including a VP of Intelligence who owns the deep tradecraft — and managing the budget that supports it Partnering with our engineering and data science teams to translate investigative work into structured data signals, workflows, and product features Identifying and onboarding off-the-shelf intelligence, analytic, and OSINT tools where they accelerate the work Establishing the SOPs, quality standards, and documentation practices that let the function scale without losing rigor Representing our intelligence capability to enterprise insurance customers: explaining methodology, demonstrating value, and being the trusted commercial face of the relationship Showing up in Series A investor conversations as the intelligence leader behind the platform Requirements Must-Haves Client-facing commercial track record (the bar). You have owned enterpris…