Build a Safer World.
TRM Labs provides blockchain analytics and AI solutions to help law enforcement and national security agencies, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses detect, investigate, and disrupt crypto-related fraud and financial crime. TRM’s blockchain intelligence and AI platforms include solutions to trace the source and destination of funds, identify illicit activity, build cases, and construct an operating picture of threats. TRM is trusted by leading agencies and businesses worldwide who rely on TRM to enable a safer, more secure world for all.
About the role:
TRM's Intelligence organization is a multi-domain team of analysts and investigators tracking illicit cryptocurrency activity across some of the most consequential threat areas in financial crime and national security — from nation-state actors and cybercrime to counterterrorism financing, sanctions evasion, and beyond.
As Senior Manager, Threat Intelligence Operations, you'll lead a portfolio of specialized pods, each staffed with experienced practitioners and led by domain-focused pod leads. This is a rare opportunity to shape both the strategy and the culture of an intelligence organization doing genuinely novel work at the intersection of blockchain analytics, investigative tradecraft, and national security.
The impact you will have:
- Build and develop a high-performing intelligence organization responsible for multiple threat categories — setting analytic standards, developing team leads and practitioners, and creating a culture of rigor and continuous learning
- Stay hands-on with the hardest problems your teams face — engaging directly on complex casework, methodology questions, and analytic challenges across threat domains
- Be a champion for embracing new approaches to the way of working of your team, including introducing new tools, sources, and approaches to continually innovate team workflows and outputs
- Identify capability gaps and drive the hiring, training, and org design needed to close them
- Translate your organization's intelligence output into impact beyond the team — through product partnerships, government engagements, and external forums
- Serve as a thought partner and mentor to others, helping them grow into the next generation of intelligence leaders at TRM
What we’re looking for:
- A seasoned intelligence or investigative professional with 8+ years of experience and 3+ years leading teams of analysts or investigators
- Someone with deep roots in at least one serious threat domain at the intersection of financial crime, national security, or cybersecurity — with direct experience tracking illicit networks or adversary activity, not just managing teams that do
- A leader who stays credible in the work — you can set direction, and you can also sit down and work through a hard analytic problem alongside your team
- Familiarity with blockchain analytics concepts and on-chain investigative methodologies; hands-on tracing experience is a plus, and a strong aptitude to learn is required
- Someone who actively uses and builds with AI in their work — ideally with hands-on experience designing agentic workflows or AI-augmented intelligence processes — and who leads their teams to do the same, not just encourages it
- A leader with a track record of guiding teams through rapid change — someone who is energized by building in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, not unsettled by them
- Exceptional communicator who can translate complex, sensitive intelligence work for diverse audiences — from analysts to executives to government partners
About the Team:
- A specialized analytical team who act as builders - shaping the outcomes that disrupt or degrade illicit cryptocurrency activities across multiple threat domains.
- Intelligence leads are experienced practitioners who bring backgrounds from federal law enforcement, the Intelligence Community, financial crime compliance, and cyber threat intelligence
- The team operates with a strong bias toward doing hard, consequential work — analytic rigor and operational discipline are core to the culture, not aspirational
- We work closely with law enforcement, government agencies, financial institutions, and regulators — our output has a real-world impact on investigations and policy
Operating Rhythms:
- Regular syncs focused on active hypothesis development and execution, analytic progress, and emerging threat developments
- Cross-team coordination on intersecting threat domains and shared methodology questions
- Recurring work product reviews to maintain analytic quality standards across the org
- Periodic external engagements — government partnerships, law enforcement briefings, industry conferences, and public reporting — that bring the team's work into the broader ecosystem
Learn about TRM Speed in this position:
- You'll be expected to get up to speed on active casework and team dynamics within your first 30 days — this is a hands-on role from day one
- The threat landscape moves fast; you'll need to help your teams prioritize, pivot, and maintain quality under pressure simultaneously
- TRM moves quickly as a company — decisions get made, and new opportunities emerge with little lead time; comfort with ambiguity is a prerequisite
- You'll have real autonomy to shape your organization's direction, which means the pace of impact is limited only by the quality of your judgment and execution
Life at TRM
We are building a safer world. That promise shows up in how we work every day.
TRM moves quickly. We are a high velocity, high ownership team that expects clarity, follow-through, and impact. People who thrive here are energized by hard problems, experimentation, and continuous feedback. If something takes months elsewhere, it will ship here in days.
Our work sits at the intersection of AI, national security, and fighting financial crime. The problems are complex, the stakes are real, and the environment evolves quickly. The pace and intensity of the work reflect the importance of the mission. As a result, the way we operate requires a high level of ownership, adaptability, collaboration, and creative problem-solving.
At TRM, you should expect:
- Priorities and targets to change quickly as we experiment and iterate
- Work that often requires operating with a high degree of ambiguity
- A high level of personal ownership and accountability
- Close collaboration across teams and functions
- Frequent, high-touch communication
- Creative problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking
- A pace that rewards urgency, adaptability, and outcomes
This environment is energizing for people who enjoy building, solving hard problems, and making progress in situations that are not always fully defined. It also requires comfort navigating ambiguity, adjusting course as new information emerges, and maintaining focus and positivity in a fast-moving and intense environment.
We also recognize that this style of operating is not for everyone. If you are primarily optimizing for predictability or a consistently balanced workload, we encourage you to use the interview process to pressure test whether this environment is truly the right fit. We want teammates who thrive here, not just survive here.
At the same time, many people find this work deeply rewarding. If you are excited by meaningful problems, motivated by ambitious goals, and energized by working alongside mission-driven colleagues, there is a good chance you will find TRM to be an exceptional place to grow and contribute. Learn more: Interviewing at TRM: How We Hire and What Success Looks Like
AI Fluency at TRM
AI fluency is a baseline expectation at TRM.
We believe AI meaningfully changes how top performers operate. We expect every team member to use AI to accelerate and reimagine their craft, not just automate surface tasks.
At TRM, AI fluency means you are among the top 10 percent of operators in your function in how you apply AI to:
- Accelerate repeatable workflows
- Structure and solve problems
- Improve output quality
- Increase speed and leverage
You will be evaluated on applied AI fluency during the interview process.
Leadership Principles
We hire and grow against three leadership principles. They’re the standards for how we operate, treat each other, and make decisions.
- Impact-Oriented Trailblazer: We put customers first and move with speed, focus, and adaptability. We treat every plan like an experiment – test, ship, measure, and iterate quickly.
- Master Craftsperson: We care deeply about our craft. We balance speed with high standards, own outcomes end‑to‑end, and invest in getting better everyday.
- Inspiring Colleague: We add clarity and energy, not noise. We bring humility, candor, and a one‑team mindset — giving and receiving feedback to make the team stronger.
Join our Mission
At TRM we care deeply about our craft. We are looking for individuals who want their work to matter, who experiment with speed and rigor, and who take pride in building a safer world for billions of people. If you’re excited by TRM’s mission but don’t check every box, we encourage you to apply — we hire for slope, judgment, and the will to learn fast.
TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Blockchain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.
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