Lead Threat Intelligence Engineer

Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely. We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.

Summary: The Role

Clio is looking to build a dedicated threat intelligence capability. Today, adversary tracking, fraud pattern analysis, and abuse intelligence happen informally across a few teams. This role makes threat intelligence a standing discipline: characterize who is targeting Clio and organizations like it, what they're using, and turn that into work other teams can act on. This is a senior individual-contributor role, where you'll be expected to establish and formalize how Clio tracks adversaries. This is the first hire in a function Clio intends to grow — the practices you establish become the foundation the rest of the team is built on. You will work closely with Clio's internal red team and detection engineer. Threat Intelligence characterizes the adversary — who they are, how they operate, what to watch for. The Red Team takes your prioritized, evidence-backed picture of the threat and decides what to simulate and attack; the detection engineer turns the same picture into detection logic in our SIEM.

What We're Protecting Firms From

Clio has nearly every piece of data you can conceive: privileged litigation strategy, M&A documents, and trust accounts that can get a lawyer disbarred if they're not protected properly! The Panama Papers breach showed the stakes — 11.5 million client documents left Mossack Fonseca, and the firm shut down two years later. The legal field is rife with examples where security must be taken seriously: Silent Ransom Group (Luna Moth) has extorted more than 100 US law firms since 2023, using IT-themed vishing calls and, recently, operatives who walk into firm offices posing as IT technicians (FBI advisories, 2025 and 2026) INC Ransom claimed 20 legal-sector victims in 2026, ten of them inside a single 48-hour window Chinese state actors breached Williams & Connolly and Wiley Rein to reach trade, sanctions, and M&A matters; Mandiant estimates 80 of the 100 largest US firms have been hacked since 2011 Most of Clio's customers are solo, small, and mid-size firms — the segment with the highest breach rate (ABA 2025 data) and the least in-house security. At the same time some of the largest legal organizations, including governments, rely on Clio. When you characterize an adversary, you protect tens of thousands of firms that cannot do this work themselves!

AI Is the Expectation

Clio's security team works with AI every day, and this role is built on that assumption. You'll use AI agents to scale collection, enrichment, triage, and first-draft reporting — and apply your own judgment to everything they produce. The adversary side is part of your beat too: AI-enabled tradecraft belongs in the landscape you cover. If the idea of directing a fleet of agents sounds like how intelligence work should be done, you'll fit perfectly at Clio.

A Day in the Life

• Digging through raw infrastructure data to attribute a phishing kit to a known actor before any vendor report names them
• Briefing security leadership team on a geopolitical or sector-specific threat trend relevant to legal tech
• Writing fraud pattern briefs from account-abuse signals and handing the Trust (anti-abuse) function specific patterns to detect
• Working with our payment operations group to identify fraud patterns and rings within Clio Payments
• Mentoring newer analysts on how to separate a credible early indicator from noise
• Proposing a new data source or tracking method because the current one is missing a class of activity

What You'll Do

• Define and maintain Clio's Priority Intelligence Requirements with stakeholders across Security, Trust, Payments, and leadership, then run the full intelligence lifecycle against them — from requirements through dissemination and feedback
• Stand up Clio's threat intelligence platform and make it the system of record for tracked actors, campaigns, and indicators
• Shape vendor purchases and tooling rollouts — OSINT and dark‑web monitoring, feeds, enrichment — as the program's collection needs take form
• Measure whether intelligence changes outcomes: detection coverage in the SIEM (Splunk, ELK/OpenSearch), Red Team campaign success grounded in your reporting, and time‑to‑detect on incidents with prior intel coverage
• Track external threat actors, techniques, and infrastructure relevant to legal tech and Clio's customer base
• Produce intelligence at three tiers: tactical indicators and TTPs for detection, operational campaign briefs for security leadership, and strategic landscape assessments for executives
• Establish and refine Clio's methodology for tracking adversary campaigns, rather than running someone else’s playbook
• Produce original research: infrastructure hunting from raw data, malware and campaign attribution
• Analyze fraud and abuse patterns and insider‑threat signals, and turn them into briefs the Trust (anti‑abuse) function can act on
• Track BEC and trust‑account wire‑fraud tradecraft targeting law firms, and feed it into fraud detection for Clio Payments
• Assess coordinated disclosure and patch‑storm events for real exploitation urgency
• Hand Red Team a prioritized, evidence‑backed list of techniques worth simulating
• Hand our detection engineer intel‑backed detection requirements
• Brief security leadership directly, in addition to the SOC and engineering teams
• Alert Payment Operations of external signals: tracked actors, fraud rings, known malicious domains/IPs, etc. to filter fraud from our payments business before they can act
• Manage commercial threat‑intel feed vendors and evaluate new ones against cost and signal quality
• Participate in industry intel‑sharing groups and represent Clio in those relationships
• Collaborate and code with the blue team on defensive remediations

What You Bring

• 5+ years in threat intelligence or a closely adjacent function, with original research you can point to
• Experience establishing or scaling a security function/team from the ground up, not just operating inside an existing one. Self‑starter.
• Scripting ability (Ruby, Python, or similar) for building, upgrading, and maintaining automation
• Fluency with MITRE ATT&CK, the Diamond Model, and structured analytic techniques such as Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, applied in your own analysis
• Track record of establishing or materially improving a tracking methodology someone else now uses
• Comfort briefing both technical teams and director+ level, and adjusting the message for each
• Ability to turn raw intelligence into a specific, actionable ask for another team — a detection to write, a technique to simulate, a vendor risk to flag
• Fluency with AI tooling in analytical work — agents for collection, enrichment, and drafting — and the judgment to validate what they produce
• Experience mentoring more junior analysts

Bonus Points

• Existing relationships in industry intel‑sharing communities
• Experience with fraud or insider‑threat analysis in addition to external threat tracking, or financial services cybercrime experience
• Familiarity with the legal‑tech or professional‑services threat landscape, or ability to build that context quickly

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $157,300 to $212,800 CAD.

Initial placement within the range is informed by geographic region, experience, and skillset, with room to progress as impact and tenure grow. Final offer amounts will vary based on candidate profile.

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance
• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin, London, New York City and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week.
• Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
• $2000 annual counseling benefit RRSP matching and RESP contribution
• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility

Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

About Clio

Clio is on a mission to transform the legal experience for all. Clio is the global leader in legal AI, building the platform that powers the future of legal work. With the scale, data, and ambition to redefine how the legal industry operates, we are advancing a comprehensive strategy that spans the full lifecycle of legal work—from knowledge and insight to execution and outcomes. At the center of this vision is the Intelligent Legal Work Platform, the legal industry’s first System of Action. By combining Clio’s core product suite with Clio Work and AI-native capabilities, the platform turns information into insight and insight into action. As we expand into the enterprise, Clio for Enterprise extends this foundation to support the complexity, scale, and operational rigor of global organizations through solutions like Clio Operate and Vincent by Clio. Backed by industry-leading data and intelligence, Clio is building the infrastructure that enables legal teams to operate with greater speed, confidence, and impact. Clio’s leadership and momentum have been recognized globally. In 2022, we achieved Centaur status, a milestone reached by fewer than 200 private SaaS companies worldwide. We are a proud honoree of the Forbes Cloud 100 and Fortune’s Future 50, have been named Innovator of the Year, and a Platinum Club member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. We are consistently recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers and a Top Employer for Young People, with our international offices also earning placements on Great Place to Work’s Best Workplaces lists. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, Clio has grown to more than 2,000 employees across offices in Toronto, Calgary, Dublin, Manchester, Sydney, Barcelona, and Bogotá—bringing together diverse perspectives to solve one of the world’s most complex and impactful professional challenges. Join Clio and help define the future of legal work through AI. Learn more at clio.com/careers.