Intelligence Analyst

Job Description Intelligence Analyst Global intelligence operations center · Santa Monica, California Location On-site -- Santa Monica, California Employment type Full-time, non-exempt (hourly).

Dedicated to one client account.

Pay range $44.00 - $48.00 per hour Entity M1 Global -- part of the Specialized family of brands About M1 Global Since 1994, M1 Global has grown from a local security provider to the trusted security partner of Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

We build security programs for complex enterprise environments -- from loading docks to data centers, headquarters to event venues -- powered by Aurix™, our proprietary automation platform that pairs skilled specialists with proven processes for industry-leading prevention, detection and reporting.

Wherever and however our clients operate, we integrate.

Protecting the companies that power the world.

The Role You produce the intelligence a global security team acts on.

Open-source collection, source verification, assessment, and written product a decision-maker can use at speed -- that is the work, and it is the whole of the work.

Automated detection surfaces signal continuously.

Your job starts there.

You verify it, weigh the sourcing, judge whether it matters to this client's people and sites, and say so in writing with your confidence level and your information gaps stated plainly.

Everything you write passes a release gate before it reaches the client, and it carries the center's analytical standard rather than your personal style.

You work a shift alongside another analyst and a watch officer who reads every product before it goes out.

This is a dedicated intelligence seat in a purpose-built center, not an analyst role bolted onto a console.

Key Responsibilities Collection and Verification • Run open-source collection across news, government, civil society, transportation, meteorological and social sources against a defined portfolio of sites, people and travel.

• Verify before you report.

Grade the source, corroborate where corroboration is possible, and state plainly where it is not.

• Triage automated alerting for relevance and false positives, and feed tuning recommendations back so the alert stream improves rather than repeats.

Assessment and Analytical Writing • Apply structured analytic technique and guard against your own bias.

Explain the reasoning behind a call, not only the conclusion.

• Write bottom line up front, for an executive audience, with confidence language used consistently and information gaps stated.

• Separate fact from assessment in every product so a reader can tell which is which without asking you.

• Produce recurring situational awareness products and answer requests for information inside agreed turnaround times.

Alerting and Escalation • Assess incoming alerts against proximity, severity and threat type, and escalate on defined criteria without waiting to be prompted.

• Support declared incidents with rolling...