Stratfor is headquartered in Austin, Texas. In addition, we have relationships in geopolitically significant areas around the world. The only openings we have at this time are listed below; please follow the instructions to our applicant page online. We are unable to respond to individual questions regarding job opportunities due to the high volume of applications.
Positions Available:
- Threat Lens Account Executive
- Online Community Forum Manager/Consultant
- Analyst (Middle East and North Africa, Asia-Pacific, Global Military and Other Specializations)
- Front-End Application Developer
- Product Manager
- Quality Assurance Engineer
- Marketing Operations Manager
- B2B Marketing Manager
Account Executive, Threat Lens
Stratfor is a geopolitical intelligence and advisory firm. We partner with clients to help identify opportunities, make strategic decisions, and manage risk. Stratfor’s advisory services clients are fund managers and senior executives of global multinational corporations, financial institutions, as well as government agencies and premier universities around the world.
Job Description:
The Account Executive is a sales-focused role, designed to develop and grow Stratfor’s business. The ThreatLens Account Executive will support corporate security executives and/or other security managers responsible for organizational security, protective intelligence management, along with global security and tactical security concerns. The Account Executive will work with Stratfor’s Enterprise Sales department leadership and business development team, along with Stratfor’s ThreatLens team, to identify and prioritize potential clients, develop engagement strategies, establish and develop relationships with key clients, develop a sales pipeline and translate developmental discussions about our offerings into increased revenues.
Responsibilities:
- Fully understanding the client’s key challenges, operational risk areas, and global security concerns and then translating and aligning Stratfor’s capabilities to create a strategy to help mitigate risk to the client.
- Focused on selling Stratfor’s high-value ThreatLens products and services, to include security risk assessments, global security monitoring, monitoring of protective intelligence threats, and tactical security support.
- Maintaining ongoing awareness of Stratfor’s analytical coverage and forecasting to support related sales.
- Maintaining the overall relationship with strategic key accounts. The Account Executive acts as the primary business contact for the client at the senior executive level.
- Directly identifying and developing business opportunities with strategic key accounts; developing and sustaining a robust pipeline of deals and closes large, profitable, deals to achieve or exceed agreed sales targets.
- Developing opportunities for other delivery channels including digital media, multi-client and presentation opportunities.
- Responsible for the leadership, management, and performance of resources supporting the client pre-sales, proposal, and delivery stages.
- Ability in negotiating non-standard terms and conditions as required for complex multi-functional intelligence engagements and leading contract negotiations with customers.
- Ensuring Key Account Customer Satisfaction to develop future business opportunities and provides appropriate and timely feedback to internal delivery groups to enable them to react positively to customer issues and to enhance products and services for continuous improvement and maintaining market differentiation.
Experience and Qualifications:
- Candidate ideally would have 10+ years of experience in the corporate security and/or consulting industry and a proven track record of selling services, and engaging with senior executives on issues related to global security concerns, risk management, intelligence operations, military and/or law enforcement.
- Must have strong executive presence, strong oral and written communication abilities and outstanding interpersonal skills.
- Possesses strong commercial skills, the ability to visualize, describe and structure deals, solid understanding of tactical and strategic security issues, risk management and global security operations.
- Must be a self-starter who can manage their own time and work as a member of a local and virtual team.
- Some work will require short turn-around times to support time-sensitive security concerns, while other work will have longer sale cycles, but the ability to develop relationships and leverage Stratfor’s content and expertise into saleable consulting services is critical.
- An understanding of how corporate and other organizations’ security managers and analysts use strategic intelligence would be useful, as would any commercial experience, but these skills are less important than the ability to build strategic relationships.
- Education must include a Bachelor’s degree at minimum.
- Foreign language aptitude and travel experience is preferred.
- Experience with intelligence operations is preferred.
- Location in Austin, Texas is preferred.
- This role may require 50%+ travel, depending on location.
To Apply:
Please forward resumes to [email protected].
Online Community Forum Manager/Consultant
- Launch the Community.
- Direct participation and engagement with community members.
- Develop our team’s capabilities to grow and manage the community into the future.
Responsibilities:
- Launch the Community
- Establish culture and tone: set policies, drive engagement, develop overall strategy and establish measurable goals for the community.
- Identify key metrics: Monitor and create ongoing reporting on community performance such as trends, member engagement, activity levels, sentiment, tracking and routing of member ideas or feedback to the appropriate Stratfor team members.
- Initiate discussions to engage, and share content to foster discussions and build relationships within the community.
- Lead moderation of community content, engage new members, add / remove members as needed, and resolve any conflicts should they arise.
- Stay current on daily Stratfor content, blog posts, podcast, notes, and other content published to help foster community discussion
- Manage and route private messages and emails from community members to Stratfor team members and operationalize the same for ongoing Stratfor team members.
- Monitor member posts that have zero responses, and provide assistance or tag in community members or Stratfor team members who can help.
- Develop Stratfor team skills and practices of ongoing facilitation, monitoring and maintaining online forums.
- Establish Stratfor capabilities for responsiveness to support community members and to resolve issues as needed.
- 2+ years of experience creating and managing successful community forums for a brand or publisher.
- Experience in producing community management guidelines.
- Experience online writing or communication-related field.
- An interest in global affairs, news, awareness of global issues, topics.
- Enjoy and actively participates in online communities, social media activities such as blogging, community development and management, social forums/communities, commenting, etc.
- Experience in issue resolution management.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
- Experience with direct customer communications.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in communications, marketing, advertising, public relations, media studies, business and/or related fields
Analyst
Stratfor's team of analysts come from extremely diverse backgrounds and share an intense passion for understanding how the world operates through a geopolitical lens. We are looking for candidates that demonstrate a high quality of mind and energy for what we do.
We care about how you think, first and foremost. To be considered for an analyst position, you must be willing to internalize Stratfor's geopolitical methodology to make sense of the world. You must be willing to go beyond a narrow area of expertise to understand how issues connect across regions and themes. We are not in the business of making policy prescriptions: You must suppress biases, internalize the constraints shaping a state’s behavior and focus on what will happen versus what should happen. You must demonstrate both rigor and creativity in how you analyze fragments of information from intelligence feeds. You must possess the intellectual discipline to regularly have your baseline assumptions challenged without getting your feelings hurt. And you must love this enough to live and breathe the job. This is a fast-paced working environment that carries a lot of responsibility, and we need people who can not only handle the work, but who also thrive in a place where both speed and depth of analysis hold equal weight.
Job Responsibilities
As a member of Stratfor’s core team of analysts, you will be responsible for supplying Stratfor’s main publishing arm with consistent, forward-looking intelligence and analysis and for providing briefings to Stratfor’s diverse set of clients.
Analysts are not only responsible for processing a large amount of information daily to stay on top of current events; a successful Stratfor analyst is able to step back from the noise, identify the key constraints to action and home in on the deeper trends in motion to develop long-term strategic forecasts. They must excel in using fragments of information and a geopolitical framework to build a coherent picture. While analysts have areas that they specialize in, our forecasts encompass political, economic, security and technological forces, requiring a well-rounded approach and the ability to absorb and transmit knowledge quickly. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, like to dig into a lot of issues at once, and are a pro at multitasking, this is a good place for you.
An analyst’s main output is in the form of written analysis for the company’s online publishing arm, as well as custom briefings for clients. Candidates must therefore demonstrate creativity and clarity in their thinking and writing. Stratfor’s engagement with clients and international media also necessitate a professional presence with excellent briefing and verbal communication skills.
Open Positions
All Analyst positions are based at the company headquarters in Austin, TX
In addition to the responsibilities listed above for all analyst candidates, we are seeking analysts who meets the following region-specific additional criteria:
Middle East and North Africa Analyst
- Depth and breadth in the political, business, economic, security and social issues that shape the Middle East, from the Maghreb to the Gulf
- Deep and demonstrable knowledge of the history of the region
- An ability to cover the Middle East/North Africa as a whole, from both the strategic and tactical level
- A strong grasp of energy market dynamics and how energy politics shape the region
- Relevant experience in region and foreign language skills in Arabic, Turkish and/or Farsi a big plus
Asia-Pacific Analyst
- Depth and breadth in the political, business, economic, security and social issues that shape the Asia-Pacific region
- Deep and demonstrable knowledge of the history of the region
- An ability to cover the Asia-Pacific region as a whole, from the strategic to the tactical level
- A strong grasp of economics and ability to articulate how global and internal economic dynamics from currency markets to and impact the region
- Relevant experience in region and foreign language skills in Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian languages and Mandarin a big plus.
Global Military Analyst
- Eligibility to work in the United States. This position is based out of the company headquarters in Austin, Texas
- At least 2-3 years of relevant work experience and completion of advanced degrees
- Depth in the understanding of military theory, history and practice
- Familiarity with emerging military concepts, doctrines, modernization programs, electronic warfare and cybersecurity
- Interest and understanding of military technology and weaponry, logistics and industry
- In-depth knowledge of active and emerging conflicts
- Established network of relevant contacts and subject matter experts is a plus; Ideal candidates will have work experience in their area of interest
- Ability to construct clear, logical analytical arguments with supporting evidence
- Rigor, professionalism and resourcefulness in conducting research
- Genuine interest and skill in writing
- A professional presence with excellent briefing and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work in a highly challenging environment and under tight deadlines
- Must be a self-starter; candidates must show the ability to manage their own time and work constructively as a member of a local and virtual overseas team
- Ability to understand key political, economic, energy, security, historical and social trends shaping a region in addition to core military assessment; Candidates must demonstrate ability to cover the region as a whole in addition to specific country expertise through a military lens. Candidates must be comfortable covering a range of issues in depth. For example, a Stratfor Global Military Analyst would be responsible for covering the tactical evolution of the Syrian battlefield, gaming out military scenarios for a conflict in Northeast Asia or the South China Sea, and understanding the strategic direction of China’s military modernization
- Language capabilities in addition to English are a major plus
To apply
Please submit a cover letter, resume (CV) and relevant writing sample to [email protected]. Cover letters should be no more than 500 words explaining why you genuinely want to work for Stratfor and how you specifically meet the requirements outlined.
Front-End Application Developer
Skills we’re looking for:
- Front-end web application development
- Experience with front-end Javascript frameworks such as (React, Redux, AngularJS, Backbone.js, Ember.js, KnockoutJS, etc.)
- Ability to convert wireframes and Photoshop documents into dynamic websites/applications using HTML, CSS, Javascript/jQuery
- Experience working collaboratively using Git and GitHub
- Experience building out responsive web designs
- Focus on quality design, usability, and user experience (UX)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and attention to detail
Other Pluses
- Familiarity with security best practices
- Familiarity working with command line build tools such as Grunt or gulp.js to automate repetitive tasks such as CSS and Javascript minification, SASS compilation, linting, and more
- Familiarity with the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP)
- Experience using Sass/Compass to generate CSS (or other CSS pre-processors, such as Less or Stylus)
- Experience working with (and preferably contributing to) open source projects
- Experience in Drupal theming (or similar content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla, etc.), HTML5, CSS3, and cross-browser testing
- Experience building out responsive email campaigns
- Other pluses: UI/UX design, mobile web and application design, Google Analytics, Unbounce, front-end frameworks, Unix basics, Vagrant, Ansible, Redmine, Node.js, A/B and multivariate testing (MVT) tools such as Visual Website Optimizer (VWO) or Google Content experiments
We offer an opportunity to work with smart people in a dynamic, yet well-established company. You'll work with the team to help publish the latest in geopolitical analysis and international intelligence. If you're interested in the exciting world of geopolitics, world events or are a history buff, then this is definitely the place to be.
Product Manager
Stratfor is seeking a driven, strategic, customer-focused and visionary product manager to grow a suite of business products, intended to become a key growth vehicle for the company. Our B2B products represent an incredible opportunity to address a vast new market segment and customer base for Stratfor. This role requires a natural leader with strong business and technology acumen.
You will be responsible for understanding customer needs, defining a product vision, building and managing a customer-centric roadmap, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver solutions for enterprise customers. The role is a highly visible one, which will interact daily with senior business and technology leaders at the company.
Requirements
- Five or more years of proven experience in a B2B product management, strategy or technology role for a customer-facing SaaS product.
- Passionate about delivering products with great user experiences
- Strong problem-solving skills, highly analytical, and attention to detail
- Proven experience delivering results by partnering with and influencing others
- High degree of self-motivation and the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Ability to effectively manage relationships at senior levels
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor's or master's degree in business or computer science
About Stratfor
With 20+ years of delivering insightful geopolitical forecasts and intelligence under our belt; a new leadership team; a refreshed corporate brand; and new product rollout just around the corner, working at Stratfor has never been better. Our purpose is to provide geopolitical intelligence, analyses, and much-needed context to enable business leaders, organizations and individuals to make sense of our increasingly complex world. We are deeply passionate about this purpose, and it has us evolving just about everything we do at Stratfor. So if you thrive in a dynamic, agile culture, love to think about the world and how it is changing, come on and join our growing team.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Austin-based global publishing company is currently seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer. The ideal candidate would have programming experience, with extensive web experience. The position will involve devising, developing, and maintaining a suite of automated Q.A. tests.
We offer an opportunity to work with smart people in a dynamic, yet well-established company. You'll work with the team to help publish the latest in geopolitical analysis and international intelligence. If you're interested in the exciting world of geopolitics, world events, or are a history buff, and have an interest in working with cutting edge web and open-source technologies then this is definitely the place to be.
Responsibilities:
- Review web and mobile product requirement specifications and evaluate products to be tested
- Develop comprehensive test plans and detailed test cases from existing documentation
- Plan, conduct, monitor, document, and report on quality assurance testing
- Identify defects and track resolutions
- Compile release notes with each software deployment
- Work with product team to develop features and functionality that foster a customer-centric culture
- Estimate, prioritize, and coordinate testing activities
- Design, develop, and execute scripts to automate testing
Skills we’re seeking:
- Experience writing Q.A. test plans
- Experience developing Q.A. test scripts, including behavior driven development (BDD) style testing, functional testing, test harness setup, etc.
- Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
- Familiarity with web basics (HTML, Javascript, CSS)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks effectively
- Familiarity with basic scripting in languages such as PHP, Python, etc
- Ability to work at a fast pace and learn new technologies quickly, with minimal direction
- Enthusiasm for learning new skills
Pluses:
Experience with cross-browser testing, responsive HTML email testing, Selenium, Behat, Mink, PHPUnit, PHP, Python, Javascript, React, Jasmine, Karma, Git, Apache, MySQL, Unix/Linux, Firebug, Drupal, and/or SauceLabs
To Apply:
Marketing Operations Manager
Globally engaged organizations and individuals join Stratfor for independent geopolitical analysis and forecasting that helps them better understand the world, develop successful strategies, and mitigate risks to people and assets.
Stratfor is looking for a world class Marketing Operations Manager to help us push out all campaigns and creative content across a myriad of channels and to a portfolio of audiences. The Marketing Operations Manager will be responsible for optimizing their Hubspot instance, including building out and managing nurture tracks, managing a lead scoring system and managing the interface between Hubspot and Salesforce.
This is a great opportunity for a candidate who has hands on experience working with Hubspot and Salesforce in the marketing operations space and is looking to take on more responsibility. As part of an exciting and growing company, you will be integral to both B2C and B2B demand generation initiatives and will play a key role on the marketing team.
Your job will be to manage our marketing stack (including automation and analytics platforms) and share real-time insights back to the team to optimize and refine our campaigns in real-time. You’ll ensure everything we do is ROI positive and continually improving.
Reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer, you will:
- Oversee and manage all marketing technology and automation platforms (including Hubspot, Salesforce, among others).
- Upload all campaigns and initiatives into these platforms, carefully evaluating them in real-time, and feeding key insights back to the team to adapt and optimize creative in order to increase conversion and ROI.
- Collaborate with the Director of B2C Marketing, B2B Marketing Manager and Sales team to plan, execute, and measure experiments and conversion tests.
- Manage all landing pages, A/B tests, drip campaigns, time-sensitive email blasts, gated content over a variety of target audience personas, systems, and platforms.
- Provide regular reporting to the marketing and leadership team, including monthly reviews with the CMO to analyze overall ROI and upcoming plans.
- Build and manage process improvements to increase efficiency in campaign deployment, tracking, reporting, and conversions.
You will be successful in this job if you have:
- 3-5+ years working as a marketing operations specialist or marketing analyst at a rapid-growth startup or mature business.
- Expert-level knowledge of Hubspot, Salesforce, and Google Analytics.
- Outstanding portfolio of successful marketing campaigns that launched flawlessly, produced measurable results and yielded compelling ROI.
- Strong collaboration skills to work on a close-knit team as well as across a cross-functional team.
- Excellent operational and organizational skills.
- Business degree with emphasis on marketing or equivalent professional experience or BS/MS degree in finance, economics, or mathematics.
Preferred Experience:
- 2+ years Marketing Operations
- 2+ years hands on with Hubspot
- 2+ years Salesforce experience
Globally engaged organizations and individuals join Stratfor for independent geopolitical analysis and forecasting that helps them better understand the world, develop successful strategies, and mitigate risks to people and assets.
We seek a seasoned, creative and results-oriented marketing professional to manage all aspects of B2B marketing and B2B lead generation.
You are a smart, energetic and talented with a passion for learning and a strong desire to be part of growing a unique business. Your ability to understand how multiple activities fit together is complemented by your talent for being laser-focused on details and deliverables.
Duties and Responsibilities include:
- Drive B2B lead generation, nurturing and conversion strategy across multiple channels including webinars, email, white papers, SEM, SEO, inbound, print advertising, conferences, tradeshows, channel partner events, and social
- Coordinate with B2C team to maximize overall revenue generation
- Tailor all communications to reflect our value proposition, voice and brand
- Manage relationships with vendors, marketing partners, and internal stakeholders
- Implement tracking and reporting across all initiatives
- Manage B2B marketing budget and forecast to deliver efficient return on investment
- Work closely with B2B sales to understand goals, priorities and needs – arming sales team with collateral, case studies, email and presentations as needed
- Understand the competitive landscape
- Conduct market research, soliciting feedback and testimonials from customers
- Perform all other related and compatible duties as assigned
- Reporting to CMO
Strong candidates should have:
- Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years relevant experience with increasing responsibility in online B2B marketing and lead generation role
- Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills
- Experience working in collaborative B2B sales organizations
- Experience with digital products, Publishing, business information products a plus
- Ability to juggle and manage to multiple projects and deadlines
- Team-player with ability to work collaboratively across functions and lines of business in an agile environment
- Experience with marketing automation and lead management systems, Salesforce, Hubspot, Google Analytics, Google Adwords and others
- Social media, PR, SEO experience a plus
Our offices are in Austin, Texas. An experienced business intelligence and services company, our work environment is entrepreneurial, fast-paced, creative, tech and market savvy, team-oriented and fun. We offer competitive compensation and benefits.
To Apply:
Please forward resumes to [email protected].