Threat Context Team Lead

Threat Context Team Lead

United States, New York, New York

Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200053665

Date posted

Sep 09, 2026

Work site

4 days / week in-office

Travel

Less than 25%

Profession

Analytics

Discipline

Business Analytics

Role type

People Manager

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

The Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) is looking for a Threat Context Team Lead with experience leading team-wide analysis and conducting open-source investigations in Mandarin. The team lead will leverage language skills, expertise in the geopolitics of East Asia, and open-source research across social media platforms, websites, and online information environments to drive the team’s assessments on PRC influence operations, cyber-enabled influence operations, and AI-enabled influence operations.

The role will contribute to MTAC’s mission to detect, assess, and disrupt digital threats to Microsoft, its customers, and democracies worldwide.

MTAC is part of Microsoft Global Affairs (MGA) within Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA).

In this role, you will lead a team of analysts and set the direction for its work, managing a broader program of analysis. This will entail aligning analysts around priority research questions, guiding projects from lead generation through production, identifying appropriate analytic leads and driving cross-cutting reporting across the team and MTAC as a whole. You will be responsible for hitting deadlines; maintaining high standards for analysis, writing, and briefings; and collaborating across teams to ensure consistent and well-coordinated assessments.

You will leverage Mandarin language skills and regional, cultural, and geopolitical knowledge to inform attribution analysis and develop assessments about China-based influence, AI, and cyber operations. This will require monitoring and analyzing operations on social media platforms, websites, and press content in Chinese, as well as other publicly available sources, to quickly identify and capture relevant findings.

As both a manager and as an individual contributor, you will synthesize intelligence and data from across the team and the company to develop written and oral assessments for executive audiences. The position will require excellent written communication, professional briefing skills, and rigorous attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Set direction for team’s analytic work and align analysts around priority research questions.

• Provide analytic leadership, guidance, and quality review to other analysts, including mentoring analysts and strengthening the rigor and consistency of the team’s analytic products.

• Manage team of analysts guiding, modeling, and coaching team members as they build an understanding of investigative, analytic, and business practices on the team.

• Produce analytic assessments synthesizing team’s work and develop engaging presentations for senior or executive audiences.

• Set and manage analytic priorities across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality analysis for senior and executive audiences.

• Lead analysis of China-related influence, AI, and cyber threats, using Mandarin-language skills and open-source research to identify emerging activity, trends, and implications.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 3+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business i