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At AlertMedia, everything we do supports our mission: To save lives and minimize loss by identifying active threats globally and facilitating timely communications when an emergency situation threatens personal safety and business continuity.
Our core values drive us in our important mission of keeping people safe:
- We’re humans not robots
- Customers always come first
- We work better together
- Simplicity is our strength
- Our reputation is priceless
- Hard work pays off
As one of the fastest growing start-up companies in the nation, we’re focused on finding the best talent and building the best team to continue accelerating our rapid growth to keep up with our demand.
AlertMedia is hiring a visionary Vice President of Product, Risk Intelligence - a security-savvy leader who fuses OSINT and AI to build the future of threat detection and response.
Who you are:
You are an expert in digital and physical threat intelligence with deep roots in the security sector and a proven ability to harness emerging technologies—especially in AI/ML and open-source intelligence (OSINT)—to deliver business-critical insight. You are a visionary leader, comfortable translating market trends into scalable product strategies and working cross-functionally to bring cutting-edge solutions to market. Your work is deeply customer- and mission-oriented, driving innovation that enhances both operational safety and decision-making.
What you get to do every day:
Lead Risk and Threat Intelligence Product Strategy
- Define and own AlertMedia’s product strategy for the Risk Intelligence product portfolio, aligning with the company’s mission and growth objectives.
- Identify and prioritize expansion opportunities into adjacent solution areas.
- Develop and maintain the long-term roadmap for threat intelligence and related products, informed by customer needs, technology trends, and competitive landscape.
- Act as a thought leader internally and externally, shaping AlertMedia’s position in the evolving threat intelligence market.
Drive Content & Data Strategy
- Establish a world-class approach to acquiring, enriching, and operationalizing external and internal data sources.
- Partner with data science and engineering teams to identify new sources, ingestion methods, and enrichment techniques that maximize accuracy, relevance, and speed of insight delivery.
- Ensure our data strategy supports compliance, ethics, and transparency in threat monitoring and investigation.
Accelerate Capabilities Expansion
- Partner with Engineering and external vendors to evaluate and implement AI and other technologies that enhance search, extraction, alerting, and visualization.
- Oversee technical and product evaluations for tools that support intelligence workflows across corporate security.
Go-to-Market & Enablement Leadership
- Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to define and execute GTM plans for new and existing digital intelligence products.
- Lead internal enablement efforts across Product Marketing, Technical Solutions, Implementation, and Support to ensure teams are equipped to drive adoption and communicate value.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in customer and prospect engagements, guiding solution fit and product alignment with real-world use cases.
Business Case Development & Execution
- Build business cases to evaluate investment in new intelligence initiatives, partnerships, and acquisitions.
- Use market and customer research to model opportunity sizing, pricing strategies, and ROI for new offerings.
- Track key performance metrics for the Threat Intelligence Solutions portfolio and make data-driven decisions on prioritization and evolution.
- Lead, mentor, and grow the Risk and Threat Intelligence Product teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability.
- Set team objectives, define clear roles and responsibilities, and support career development plans.
- Provide performance feedback, coaching, and guidance to ensure alignment with strategic goals and successful execution of initiatives.
- Promote cross-functional engagement and collaboration across product, engineering, intelligence analysts, and go-to-market teams.
What you bring to the role:
- 10+ years of experience in threat intelligence, security risk management, or intelligence technology products.
- Proven success in launching and scaling intelligence-driven SaaS products, preferably in B2B or government markets.
- Deep understanding of the intelligence lifecycle and how OSINT and proprietary data sources contribute to situational awareness and decision support.
- Demonstrated experience building and managing world-class product teams
- Demonstrated experience driving cross-functional product strategies, roadmap development, and market launches.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to influence internal teams, external customers, and industry stakeholders.
- A thought leader mindset with the ability to see around corners and anticipate the evolution of the intelligence and security markets.
- Comfortable with technical and analytical conversations about AI/ML, data pipelines, search relevance, and security tooling.
Why you’ll love working at AlertMedia:
- Competitive base salary + Company-Wide Bonus program
- Generous and flexible time and parental leave policies
- Health benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance 100% paid for employees!
- 401K with a generous company match
- Amazing rewards and incentives – we love celebrating each other!
- Commitment to community service with opportunities to give back
- A Best Places to Work company 9 years in a row and numerous other awards
- Access to brand new downtown office with 360 views of Austin, high-tech building gym, and nearby running trails
About AlertMedia:
AlertMedia, backed by Vista Equity Partners, helps organizations protect their people and businesses through all phases of an emergency. Our award-winning threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions help companies of all sizes identify, respond to, and recover from critical events faster and more confidently. AlertMedia supports essential communication for thousands of leading businesses—including JetBlue, Coca-Cola Bottling, and Walmart—in more than 150 countries.
We are an equal opportunity employer focused on creating a collaborative and exciting place for all to work. Ensuring a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace for all people is key to our success and core to our values. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
This is an amazing opportunity to be part of our wave of momentum and take our company, and your career, to the next growth stage. We'd love to get to know you better and share how we serve our amazing customers. For more information, please visit www.alertmedia.com.
Come join us in our mission to save lives and minimize loss through effective communication.
AlertMedia does not sponsor.
By applying for the role, you agree that Alert Media will use your Personal Information in connection with the recruitment process and in accordance with our Privacy Policy – https://www.alertmedia.com/legal/privacy-policy/
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as 100% employer-paid for employees across medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance. Feedback suggests this comprehensive coverage reduces out-of-pocket burden for individuals.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave provides up to 16 weeks for birthing parents and 6 weeks for non-birthing caregivers, with additional family-forming support through Carrot. Feedback suggests these offerings meaningfully support growing families.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes flexible PTO and a paid six-week sabbatical after six years. Feedback suggests the combination of flexibility and a long-tenure sabbatical enhances work-life balance.
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What We Do
AlertMedia helps organizations protect their people and businesses through all phases of an emergency. Our award-winning threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions help companies of all sizes identify, respond to, and recover from critical events faster and more confidently. Our team of in-house intelligence analysts and meteorologists work around the clock to monitor thousands of data sources around the world, providing our customers and employees with verified, credible information to protect them from impending threats. AlertMedia has been recognized both nationally and locally for its exceptional company culture, most recently being named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list for 2023. We were also named to Forbes’ list of America’s Best Startup Employers for two consecutive years, Austin Business Journal’s Best Places to Work for nine consecutive years, and Built In Austin’s 100 Best Places to Work in Austin. Located in the heart of downtown Austin in the "smartest building in the city", AlertMedia inspires and invests in our employees through continuous developmental experiences, including Career Month, community volunteering, mentorship programs, Employee Resource Groups, and weekly "Tuesday Lunches" where the company comes together to learn about and discuss any business updates. AlertMedia also facilitates a robust internship program, working with universities (including HBCUs), non-profit organizations like Hiring Our Heroes, and similar partners to invest in the future of our diverse workforce.
Why Work With Us
AlertMedia employees have a strong connection to our mission and product. An anonymous employee survey recently revealed 99% of our people feel the work they do is important and making a direct impact, 94% feel our diverse, grow-from-within culture is collaborative and supportive, and 92% are taking advantage of our career development opportunities
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Our hybrid policy provides flexibility so employees can work and collaborate from home or in our Austin offices, either full- or part-time. We ask employees in Austin to join us on Tuesday for company-sponsored lunch to connect and learn together.
