Global Investigator

Skills

About the Role

You will work at the targeting and disruption layer of sextortion investigations. You will validate high priority victim and infrastructure leads, use open source intelligence to identify actors, aliases, personas, infrastructure, and behavioral patterns, follow the money across the payment rails these networks actually use, and build the targeting packages that enable arrests, platform takedowns, and the dismantling of these groups operate at scale. The impact you will have here includes leading OSINT driven investigations into sextortion actors, following the money across rails including consumer payment apps, gift cards, and cryptocurrency, pivoting on selectors to expand a single report into a broader network, producing actionable targeting packages that connect OSINT findings with financial and victim reporting to enable law enforcement action and platform disruption, validating time sensitive signals and moving high confidence matters through escalation, and helping drive victim safety by supporting outreach to victims. You will also adapt quickly to evolving information, maintain high standards of rigor and discretion, and collaborate across teams to protect victims and disrupt criminal networks.

Requirements

• Law-enforcement experience. Experience as a current, former, or retired law-enforcement professional, including sworn officers, investigators, or task-force officers. Candidates with backgrounds in state, local, or federal investigations — particularly ICAC task forces or similar cybercrime, child-exploitation, financial-crime, or digital-investigations teams — are strong fits.
• OSINT investigations background. Demonstrated experience using open-source intelligence to identify online actors, aliases, accounts, infrastructure, communication patterns, linked personas, and operational networks.
• Financial-investigations experience. Experience investigating the payment methods commonly used in these cases, including payment apps, gift cards, and crypto-enabled flows. You can follow funds across platforms, identify relevant selectors, and develop leads that support law-enforcement action, platform referrals, and infrastructure disruption.
• Sextortion or victim-centered cybercrime investigation experience. You understand the sensitivity, urgency, and victim impact of sextortion cases, and you can investigate quickly without losing rigor, discretion, or care.
• Legal-process familiarity. Working knowledge of preservation requests, subpoenas, and 2703(d) orders, including how to draft requests, interpret returns, and move quickly from a selector to an investigative lead.
• 5-7 years of investigative experience across OSINT, cybercrime, crypto investigations, asset recovery, law enforcement, trust and safety, blockchain analytics, or equivalent.
• Experience producing investigative packages that can support formal legal, compliance, platform escalation, asset-preservation, or enforcement workflows.
• Creative tactical thinking. You can pivot from one handle, wallet, image, phone number, email, username, transaction, or platform account into a broader network view.
• A bias to action. You figure out the first move when faced with something you've never seen and keep going — thinking in outcomes rather than lanes.
• AI fluency. You use AI tools in your workflow to accelerate and improve investigative speed, with examples of how AI has materially impacted your work.
• US citizenship and the ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Learn about TRM Speed in this position: React timely to the movement of funds during an ongoing investigation, support other teams on time sensitive issues, and continuously learn new issues in crypto.

Responsibilities

• Lead OSINT-driven investigations into sextortion actors, identifying aliases, personas, infrastructure, social-media footprints, communication channels, bait packs and reused lure imagery, and links across victims and campaigns.
• Follow the money across the rails this threat actually uses — consumer payment apps (Cash App, Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, Apple Pay), gift cards, and cryptocurrency where cases are crypto-enabled — and draft and work the legal process to act on it.
• Pivot on selectors — a handle, phone number, email, username, image, domain, account, or a cryptocurrency address — to expand a single report into the surrounding network.
• Produce actionable targeting packages that connect OSINT findings, financial evidence, and victim reporting to identify responsible actors and networks, enabling law-enforcement action, platform takedowns, and infrastructure disruption.
• Validate time-sensitive victim and infrastructure signals and move high-confidence matters through the escalation workflow.
• Help drive victim safety — supporting outreach to victims.