**Description** **You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.** With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally. At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong. Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together. The Global Security Protective Intelligence team analyzes and assesses threats to American Express executives, colleagues, facilities, assets, events, and interests globally. Reporting to the Director of Protective Intelligence, the Protective Intelligence Research Analyst will gather, analyze, produce, and brief actionable intelligence for informed decision making across Global Security, executive leadership, and the enterprise. Critical skills include partnering with key stakeholders and providing awareness, indications, warnings, and operational readiness. **How you will make an impact in this role?** + Maintain and continually enhance priority intelligence requirements that align with needs of stakeholders. + Leverage OSINT, proprietary information, and purpose-built tools to create written intelligence products for key stakeholders to proactively address threats. + Support protective intelligence investigations involving threats to leaders, colleagues, and facilities. + Produce and present threat assessments, deep-dive analysis, and briefings that are cohesive, concise, and professional. + Build and maintain partnerships with key teams/functions within the company such as physical security, information security, business continuity, insider threat, and investigations. + Interact rapidly at all levels of the organization and across regions to provide subject matter expertise on threats. + Provide after-hours support, as required. **Minimum Qualifications:** + 10 years’ working in large mission critical environment in one or more areas of executive protection, criminal justice, intelligence, security, or geopolitical related disciplines. + Previous experience in military intelligence or private sector protective intelligence/close protection preferred. + In-depth understanding of threats affecting executives, corporate assets, and events. + Working knowledge in one or more of the following areas: executive protection, law enforcement, close protection, counterintelligence, insider threat, all-source intelligence. + Ability to work well under pressure and in a fast-paced environment, operating with a sense of urgency as needed. + Advanced level of understanding of investigative techniques and threat-based intelligence analysis to detect and resolve threats, vulnerabilities, and other criminal activity. + Strong verbal and written communication skills, analytic writing, interpersonal collaborative skills, and effective communication. + Experience in data visualization, network analysis, and application of structured analytic techniques to generate and test hypotheses, assess cause and effect, challenge analysis, and support decision making. + Ability to review information to determine its significance, validate its accuracy and assess its reliability. + Strong interpersonal skills, including ability to maintain collaborative working relationships and drive coordination and results across teams. + Strong personal initiative, intellectually curious, and knowledgeable about local, regional, and world events. + Solid critical thinking and effective time management skills with ability to prioritize based on changing environment. + Must have initiative and able to work both collaboratively and independently when needed. + Strong ability to communicate upwards and to peers, particularly in high-impact, mission critical scenarios **Preferred Qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree required; relevant advanced degree preferred. **Qualifications** We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:  + Bonus incentives   + Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need   + Free and confidential counselling support through our Healthy Minds program   + Career development and training opportunities  Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.  **Job:** Security **Primary Location:** Israel-Amex - for internal use only-Amex - for internal use only **Schedule** Full-time **Req ID:** 25002874