Americas Regional Security Analyst

Texas, United States of America Job Family Group:

Health, Safety, Security, and Environment Worker Type:

Regular Posting Start Date:

October 21, 2026 Business Unit:

HR Corporate Functions Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals Job Description:

What’s the role

The Americas Regional Security Analyst leverages deep substantive knowledge of the Americas, a strong regional network, and deep technical expertise in analytic tradecraft to deliver Shell strategic objectives.

The Intelligence & Assessment Team (I&AT) delivers security intelligence and geopolitical insights across Shell’s businesses and functions. It forms a critical component of the Corporate Security function, helping the company to assess threats, define risks and maximise value through the delivery of strategic intelligence.

The I&AT serves as an expert resource for intelligence analysis and strategic assessment of geopolitical and security threats.

What you’ll be doing

• Holds principal accountability for identifying and assessing security threats in the Americas regions, including ownership of the Threat Assessment process to anticipate, monitor and communicate changing threat environments and emerging trends, and identify triggers and indicators to monitor changes in the threat outlook.
• Provide both oral and written strategic intelligence assessments of geopolitical and security dynamics with the potential to have a material security impact to the company, including forward-looking assessments and outlooks.
• Support operational and tactical intelligence needs through OSINT sources as well as a connection into a substantial regional network (peers, governmental agencies, NGOs, and academia), applying the intelligence cycle to security information and reporting requirements and production.
• Proactively identify emerging threats and shape and prioritise strategic intelligence requirements based on business requirements, responding to requests for information and supporting business planning and key decision points.
• Establish and maintain a broad range of senior-level relationships and authoritative information sources, internally and externally, and ensure regular information flows with peers, governments, academia and NGOs.
• Provide strategic and operational liaison and guidance to Shell security and business leaders.
• Travel regularly within the region to carry out assessments, deepen subject matter expertise and develop external networks.
• Provide support outside normal working hours and respond proactively to security-relevant developments and incidents.

What you bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.
• Bachelor’s degree and preferably an advanced qualification in a relevant discipline (eg International Relations, Politics, History, Security Studies, International Development).
• Minimum five years’ relevant professional experience in security intelligence, geopolitical analysis, threat assessment or a closely related field. Relevant government (eg military, intelligence, diplomatic service), commercial (eg business intelligence, media, strategic consultancy), research (eg think-tank) or NGO experience, with a strong focus on information collation and analysis and a proven track record in presenting written and verbal briefings to senior audiences.
• Deep substantive knowledge of the Americas, particularly Latin America (including politics, history, culture, security, regional context).
• Professional fluency in Spanish (written and oral) is required, including the ability to participate fully in meetings conducted in Spanish, understand detail and context, and conduct real-time analysis to ask appropriate follow-up questions.
• Substantive intelligence experience in the public and/or private sectors. Specifically, understanding of the intelligence cycle and its application in a commercial environment.
• Significant training and professional experience in analytic tradecraft, including the ability to assess threat-actor intent and capability, key threat drivers and likely future developments, and develop evidence-based threat forecasts.
• Deep knowledge of international affairs and the ability to examine issues for second and third order implications to Shell.
• Possess a substantive and established network throughout the region and have the ability to quickly forge productive relationships and build networks at all levels, internally and externally.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience with open-source intelligence tools and techniques.
• Ability to work independently in a dispersed virtual team structure.
• Preferred: An additional regional language; international work and travel experience, particularly regional posting(s).

What we offer

The base salary range for this position is $115,000 - $173,000 per year. Individual pay will be based on various factors, such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity.

For regular full-time or regular part-time employees of the Company (participating companies as listed in the Summary Plan Description), insurance coverage options include medical, dental, vision coverage, life Insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs. Employees also participate in a company pension plan and a 401(k) plan. Paid leave includes up to 6 weeks of paid vacation time, up to 11 paid holidays, and parental leave offering 16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents, and 8 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents.

Additionally, employees are eligible for short-term disability leave for up to 26 weeks at 100% or 50% of base pay as well as Long-Term Disability insurance. Shell also offers other compensation such financial reimbursement for adoption, wellness, education, and personal learning expenses, and some roles are eligible for discretionary long-term incentives. For interns, eligible benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs; participation in a 401(k) plan; and paid leave for up to 11 paid holidays. Additional information on Shell’s US benefit programs can be found at https://www.shell.us/careers/about-careers-at-shell/rewards-and-benefits.html.

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise
• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents
• Join an organization working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programs

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Shell in The United States

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From producing a reliable supply of oil and gas in the US Gulf of America to biofuels, our retail sites and EV charging network, to marketing and trading electricity generated by gas plants, solar and wind power, we are one of the few countries where every Shell business is represented.

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