Intro
Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!
Why you'll love this job
- This is an impactful role and one in which you’re directly responsible for the security and well-being of our executives, and for managing risks and opportunities around geopolitical turmoil.
- You will have an opportunity to travel, collaborate with other teams, and adjust to rapidly changing situations. This level of collaboration allows for continuous learning, exposure to new fields of expertise, and the development of a well-rounded skill set.
- The role requires critical thinking and problem-solving, especially when assessing and mitigating risks. You’ll love this job if you are a program builder, like staying a step ahead of potential threats and enjoy using your intellect to protect others. This role is a part of the Protective Services (PS) team within our Corporate Security group.
What You'll Do
- Manage the Executive Protection and Geopolitical Risk teams
- Draft travel, event and advance threat assessments for venues and travel routes to identify and mitigate potential risks
- Establish standardized processes to monitor, identify, assess, notify, and mitigate security risks to our executives and operations
- Provide subject matter expertise for geopolitical and security intelligence covering our global operations
- Prepare and present risk intelligence briefings and products for various levels of audiences and business verticals to support critical decision making across the company
- Manage protective intelligence-related tasks which include proactive threat detection and escalation, threat and risk assessments, POI investigations, maintaining BOLOs, and collaborating with internal and external partners on threat management
- Manage dashboards and metrics, standard operating procedures, and guidelines to measure the effectiveness of both programs and ensure continuous improvement
- Manage threat levels and implement protection strategies
- Willingness to travel frequently and maintain an in-office presence to ensure the ability to support of our executive team
All you'll need for success
Minimum Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience
- Bachelor's degree in political science, international relations, security/intelligence studies, criminal justice, or a related field
- 5+ years of executive protection, dignitary protection, or relevant experience
- 10+ years of demonstrated experience delivering geopolitical risk analysis
- Significant experience working with interagency and foreign partners in high threat environments
- Extensive experience working and traveling globally in conflict/crisis environments
- Experience managing Person of Interest/GOI investigations and managing a BOLO program
- Experience with building and implementing protective intelligence and threat management programs
- Proven experience addressing global security challenges and geopolitical turmoil
- Experience with data visualization and geospatial mapping tools
- Formal training in intelligence analysis and OSINT tradecraft
- Proven experience with commercial intelligence databases and OSINT research tools
- Ability to adapt quickly and work effectively in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and deadlines
- This position requires up to 50% travel
All you'll need for success (continued)
Preferred Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience
- Experience managing security for High-Net-Worth Individuals, the US Secret Service, or US State Department DSS
- Experience building, implementing and scaling executive security and geopolitical risk programs
- Study abroad
- Foreign language fluency
Skills, Licenses, And Certifications
- Close protection certification
- Understanding of investigative techniques and threat-based intelligence analysis
- Experience using Ontic
What You'll Get
Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:
- Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
- Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
- Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
- 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
- Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more.
Feel free to be yourself at American
From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.
Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.
