Threat Investigator Team Lead

The role

You will manage and develop a team of investigators and analysts responsible for detecting, investigating, and disrupting ongoing and emerging threats. You will act as a player-coach to guide complex cases and incident response.

What you will do

• Manage, coach, and develop a small team of investigators and analysts
• Own investigative quality, workload prioritization, queue health, and performance
• Serve as the first point of escalation for complex, ambiguous, or high-risk investigations
• Guide deep-dive network investigations and build team tradecraft
• Identify new detection and disruption opportunities
• Translate investigative signals into recommendations about threat prioritization, policy gaps, and enforcement interventions
• Coordinate with law enforcement, government, industry, and other external partners
• Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in threat intelligence, investigations, incident response, or a related field
• At least 2 years of prior people-management experience
• Deep expertise in at least one extremist or violent-threat-actor ecosystem
• Demonstrated ability to coach investigators and deliver constructive feedback
• Strong judgment in ambiguous, fast-changing situations
• Fluency with investigative and case-management tooling
• Ability to use data and detection signals to guide team priorities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Collaborative approach to cross-functional work

Nice to have

• Experience supporting teams that regularly work with sensitive or potentially disturbing material
• Additional language proficiency, particularly in languages relevant to high-harm threat-actor communities
• Experience presenting complex threat findings to senior leaders or external audiences

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• life and disability insurance
• paid time off
• paid parental leave
• equity

About the company

Discord is a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. Its mission is to give people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives.