Private Sector Intelligence

Private Sector Intelligence Careers: Analyzing Job Titles and Professional Trends

If an aspiring intelligence professional types “intelligence analyst” into a job search, what might they find? The corporate world has a vast and growing array of intelligence and security roles that focus on geopolitics, risk, and security threats. These jobs are obscured under a bewildering array of terminology. At the Belfer Center’s Intelligence Project, we undertook a multi-year initiative to systematically track job postings in private sector intelligence. Our goal is to illuminate this landscape and to provide insight into skills and qualifications that private sector intelligence employers are seeking in their new hires. We also aim to encourage future research on an understudied domain that has implications for corporate security and national security.