Manager, Intelligence Operations (Collection & Analysis)

About Alpha Recon

Alpha Recon is an AI-powered risk intelligence company delivering decision-grade intelligence for security, executive protection, enterprise risk, and operational teams. Through its SecuRecon platform, ReconBytes, and SecuReport intelligence briefings, Alpha Recon transforms high-volume global threat data into analyst-verified, defensible intelligence designed to support real-world decisions—not just alerts.

Our model blends advanced AI-assisted collection with experienced intelligence professionals to reduce noise, prioritize impact, and provide intelligence that can be briefed, documented, and relied upon.

Role Overview

The Manager, Intelligence Operations (Collection & Analysis) is responsible for leading end-to-end intelligence operations, with equal emphasis on collection management, analytic production, and operational execution.

This role ensures that intelligence is:

• Purpose-driven (guided by clear intelligence requirements)
• Efficiently collected (using the right sources, tools, and methods)
• Operationally relevant (aligned to client and platform use cases)
• Scalable and defensible (documented, repeatable, and auditable)

The Manager serves as the authority for intelligence delivery, delivery strategy, collection planning, analyst workflows, and quality control, bridging product, analysts, and customers.

Key Responsibilities

Intelligence Requirements & Collection Management

• Own the intelligence requirements process, translating client, operational, and platform needs into clear Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs), Essential Elements of Information (EEIs), and collection objectives
• Design and manage collection strategies across open, deep, and dark web sources, proprietary tools, and AI-enabled data pipelines
• Ensure collection activities are focused on relevance and impact, reducing noise and redundant data ingestion
• Allocate and prioritize collection resources based on operational urgency, risk level, and client SLAs
• Continuously assess collection effectiveness and adjust sources, methods, and automation as conditions change

Intelligence Production & Analytic Oversight

• Lead daily intelligence production across finished intelligence, SitReps, and software platform-driven outputs
• Ensure finished intelligence aligns with Alpha Recon’s standard of decision-ready, briefable, and documentable assessments
• Oversee analytic rigor, sourcing transparency, confidence statements, and structured analytic techniques
• Serve as senior reviewer for high-risk, high-visibility, or complex intelligence products

Analyst Leadership & Development

• Manage a team of intelligence analysts and senior analysts across collection and analysis functions
• Coach analysts on collection planning, source evaluation, OSINT tradecraft, and analytic writing
• Establish performance standards for both collection quality and analytic output
• Support hiring, onboarding, and professional development of intelligence staff

Operational Workflow & Process Design

• Build and maintain scalable SOPs covering the full intelligence cycle:
  Requirements → Collection → Processing → Analysis → Dissemination → Feedback
• Integrate collection management processes with software platform workflows and AI-assisted tools
• Partner with Product and Engineering to improve collection tasking, tagging, and feedback loops within the platform

Client, Product & Stakeholder Support

• Serve as the escalation point for urgent or sensitive intelligence requirements
• Work with Sales and Customer Success to scope intelligence needs and set realistic collection expectations
• Translate client questions into actionable collection and analytic tasks, ensuring intelligence answers the questions that matter

Quality, Governance & Risk Management

• Enforce standards for source validation, attribution, and ethical collection practices
• Ensure sensitive information is handled appropriately and intelligence products are defensible if reviewed post-incident
• Lead post-event reviews to refine intelligence requirements, collection plans, and analytic assumptions

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in intelligence operations, threat intelligence, or risk intelligence, including direct experience with collection management
• 2+ years in a leadership or managerial role overseeing analysts or intelligence workflows
• Demonstrated ability to develop intelligence requirements, collection plans, and tasking guidance
• Strong background in OSINT collection, source evaluation, and analytic tradecraft
• Experience managing intelligence in a client-driven, operational, or time-sensitive environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level briefing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting physical security, executive protection, travel risk, or enterprise security risk management (eSRM)
• Familiarity with AI-assisted collection platforms, automation, or SaaS intelligence delivery models
• Experience managing hybrid human/AI intelligence pipelines
• Prior military, law enforcement, government, or private-sector intelligence background
• Experience supporting global operations, crisis response, or major events

What Success Looks Like

• Intelligence collection is targeted, efficient, and aligned to real requirements, not volume for volume’s sake
• Analysts spend more time analyzing and less time chasing irrelevant data
• Intelligence products consistently answer the right questions with confidence and clarity
• Alpha Recon’s intelligence operations scale smoothly as demand, customers, and platform capabilities grow

Why Join Alpha Recon

• Help shape the future of intelligence operations at the intersection of AI and human expertise
• Lead intelligence that directly impacts real-world security decisions
• Build and mature structured collection and analysis practices in a growing company
• Be part of a mission-driven organization focused on proactive risk reduction and operational excellence