Job DescriptionThis position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.Location expectations:This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.
U.S. Bank is seeking a Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Analyst to serve as a functional leader within the Threat Informed Defense organization. This role is responsible for delivering actionable intelligence to reduce enterprise cyber risk while leading daily intelligence operations across tactical, operational, and strategic levels. This role supports critical Cyber Defense functions including Threat Hunting, Threat Detection, and Incident Response.
This position functions as a senior individual contributor with leadership responsibilities, mentoring analysts and guiding CTI execution without direct people management responsibility.
The Lead CTI Analyst has deep experience with and understands various methods of using publicly available threat data from reputable sources to recognize relationships between individuals, businesses, and other entities. The successful candidate will possess a solid sense of ethics, a working knowledge of applicable legal and regulatory considerations and a familiarity with industry standards surrounding open-source intelligence gathering. In addition, as a function lead, the Lead CTI Analyst will mentor, coach, and develop junior analysts, as well as maintain high-quality intelligence production and service delivery. This is a senior functional leadership role without direct reports, responsible for driving CTI operations and standards.
The Lead CTI Analyst will focus on collection activities aligned to established requirements, enrichment, and analysis of phishing, malware, and exploitable vulnerabilities. The candidate should have strong computer skills, leadership skills, and analytical tradecraft abilities. The analyst will work on assignments that are varied and frequently require interpretation and independent determination of the appropriate courses of action.
Responsibilities:- Prioritize intelligence requirements (IR) and requests for intelligence (RFI), including developing intelligence targeting and collection plans
- Analyze cyber threats; engage stakeholders to determine impact to U.S. Bancorp.
- Monitor a wide array of diverse information sources, ranging from open-source to classified materials for potential threats.
- Maintain a detailed level of awareness of threats to the financial sector.
- Actively participate in the development, documentation, and implementation of new processes to expand and mature capabilities for the organization.
Must Have Skills- 5+ years of hands-on Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) experience with strong analytical tradecraft
- Proven ability to analyze threat data and produce clear, actionable intelligence outputs
- 3+ years of leading through influence (mentoring, coaching, acting as an SME without direct reports)
- Strong stakeholder communication and influence skills, including the ability to guide decisions using intelligence insights
- Experience with a broad set of threat intelligence tools, vendors, and processes
- Demonstrated understanding of the intelligence lifecycle (collection, analysis, dissemination)
- Background working within cyber threat intelligence teams (not purely general cybersecurity or operations)
Nice to Have Skills- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and supporting strategic decision-making through intelligence outputs
- Exposure to AI use cases within cyber threat intelligence
- Background in adjacent areas such as incident response, threat hunting, or detection engineering (as a supplement to CTI experience)
- Track record of improving processes, tools, or intelligence outputs to increase team effectiveness
- Experience operating in a proactive, forward-looking intelligence environment rather than purely reactive threat response
Benefits:Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:
- Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
- Basic term and optional term life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Pregnancy disability and parental leave
- 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
- Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
- Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
- Adoption assistance
- Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
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Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants. 
