- Level
- Leadership
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Work style
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- Pay
- $132.5k to $338.3k
At a glance
The role in plain English
This is a senior leadership role managing Accenture's North America cyber intelligence delivery team. The position suits professionals with extensive experience in cyber intelligence, consulting, and business development. Day-to-day work involves leading teams, advising executive clients, driving business growth, and integrating AI into intelligence services. The role requires travel as needed and frequent collaboration with global teams and other business units.
What you'll do
- Lead and manage a North America cyber intelligence delivery team
- Serve as subject matter advisor on client engagements
- Advise CISO-level and senior client stakeholders
- Drive business development and deal closure in North America
- Ensure delivery excellence and client satisfaction
What they're looking for
Essential
- Minimum 15 years' cyber intelligence or related experience
- 10 years advising executive stakeholders with sales accountability
- 8 years leading teams or managing a practice
- 8 years developing new business in consulting
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
Nice to have
- Experience leading services and products business for large organisations
- Ability to grow consulting and managed services at scale
- Experience presenting cybersecurity thought leadership
- Recognised leader with executive relationships in cybersecurity
Core skills
- Cyber intelligence
- Business development
- Team leadership
- Client advisory
- AI integration
- Threat intelligence
- Consulting
- Practice management
The shape of the job
Technical depth
5/5
Pace
4/5
Ownership
5/5
Teamwork
5/5
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How the pay compares
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- 01Describe your experience leading a cyber intelligence team across multiple regions.
- 02How have you integrated AI or automation into intelligence delivery workflows?
- 03Give an example of advising a CISO or board on cyber intelligence matters.
- 04How do you ensure delivery excellence and client satisfaction in consulting engagements?
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with operations in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations.
Full job descriptionAs published by Accenture
We Are
Accenture is a global collective of innovators whose aim is to improve the way the world works and lives. Empowered with innovative tools, continuous learning and a global community of diverse talent, we drive success in new business architecture that disrupts conventional practices. And we are looking to hire an experienced Cyber Intelligence business executive to an already outstanding team.
Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond to, and recover, at all points of the security lifecycle. We hire the very best security talent and arm them with the coolest tools and latest tech so they can help our clients build resilience as we create integrated, customized turnkey solutions. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.
You Are
You Are passionate about security, love what you do and have a genuine desire to outsmart the bad guys. You have the experience to analyze a clients’ security posture, anticipate security requirements and help find right-sized solutions based on industry leading practices. You have a proven track record working successfully in a fast-paced, agile environment.
The ideal candidate has previously led one or more of the following:
- Managing a large-scale threat intelligence or cyber consulting practice with sales and revenue accountability across multiple geographic regions
- Building and scaling intelligence and/or other cyber resilience and defense delivery teams
- Developing and taking to market intelligence consulting, products, and managed services
- Executive-level client relationship management and complex deal origination
- Integrating AI and automation into cyber intelligence, resilience, and defense operations
The Work
The Work is an exciting opportunity to lead and grow Accenture’s Cyber Intelligence services and products business across the Americas. As Cyber Intelligence Manager, North America, you will own the strategy, financial performance, and delivery of one of the fastest-evolving businesses within our Cyber Resilience and Defense practice. You will be accountable for expanding the business through new and existing clients, leading a high-performing team, ensuring every engagement delivers measurable value to our clients and profitability for Accenture. You will set the vision and execute the plan for how intelligence is delivered to the largest enterprises in the region. This includes how generative and agentic AI reshapes both our delivery and our clients’ intelligence approach, integrated with other core cyber resilience and defense capabilities.
You will partner closely with our global Cyber Intelligence team and our other Cyber Resilience and Defense practices in the US to deliver differentiated end-to-end solutions that win in the US market. This is a role for a leader who is equally comfortable articulating cyber intelligence in business risk terms to a CISO or Board, directing a pursuit team to close a complex deal, and working side by side with analysts raising the quality and efficiency of intelligence production.
This role will report to the head of Americas Cyber Intelligence Market Unit Lead.
Responsibilities include:
- Lead and manage a North America cyber intelligence delivery team of up to five consultants, analysts, and engineers, ensuring high performance, development, and retention
- Serve as Subject Matter Advisor (SMA) on client engagements, bringing deep cyber intelligence expertise to shape and elevate the quality of intelligence delivery across the region
- Act as a trusted advisor to CISO-level and senior client stakeholders, translating complex threat and geopolitical intelligence into actionable business decisions
- Drive business development in North America, including pipeline generation, opportunity origination, pursuit leadership, proposals, and deal closure in partnership with the Americas MU Lead
- Ensure delivery excellence across all North America engagements, maintaining consistent quality, client satisfaction, and scalable, repeatable outcomes
- Contribute to the evolution of Accenture’s cyber intelligence go-to-market strategy and service offerings in North America, in alignment with global Cyber Intelligence direction
- Embed AI and automation into intelligence delivery workflows to improve speed, quality, and coverage for clients
- Partner with the global Cyber Intelligence team and adjacent Accenture practices (Cyber Resilience & Defense, Managed Security Services, Data & AI) to deliver integrated, end-to-end solutions
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.
Here's what you need
- Minimum 15 years’ relevant experience in cyber intelligence, cybersecurity operations, cyber incident response, threat hunting, or a closely related field
- Minimum 10 years' experience engaging and advising executive stakeholders on enterprise level cyber intelligence, resilience, and defense with market wide sales and revenue growth accountability
- Minimum 8 years' experience leading teams and/or managing a practice, portfolio, or business unit at scale.
- Minimum 8 years' experience developing new business within a professional services or consulting business, including GTM, executive account management, and deal closure
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience
Bonus points if you have
- Extensive experience leading a professional services and products business for the world’s most prominent organizations across industries
- Demonstrated ability to grow a combined services and product business, including both consulting and managed services, at scale (double-digit year-over-year growth) while maintaining strong contract profitability
- Demonstrated experience producing and presenting original thought leadership on cybersecurity, emerging technology, and enterprise risk topics
- An individual brand and executive relationships as a recognized leader in the cybersecurity industry
- Experience partnering with global teams in a distributed delivery model
- Experience designing market-leading cyber resilience and defense offerings and winning market share in Canada, Mexico, and Brazil
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 11/30/2026.
Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:
U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture
Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $132,500 to $338,300
Colorado $132,500 to $292,200
Connecticut $132,500 to $292,200
District of Columbia $141,100 to $311,200
Illinois $122,700 to $292,200
Maine $112,900 to $249,000
Maryland $132,500 to $292,200
Massachusetts $132,500 to $311,200
Minnesota $132,500 to $292,200
New York $122,700 to $338,300
New Jersey $141,100 to $338,300
Ohio $122,700 to $270,600
Virginia $122,700 to $311,200
Washington $141,100 to $311,200
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com
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