Senior Insider Threat Analyst, Workday
$152-228k
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$152-228k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in Insider Threat, Security operations, Threat Hunting, Intelligence analysis, corporate investigations or counterintelligence
- Threat hunting experience in a corporate or government environment
- Hand On experience designing, tuning, and operationalizing detection logic and policies in tools such as Proofpoint, DTEX, Exabeam, Netskope, or similar UEBA and DLP tools
- Experience working with and analyzing data or related telemetry to identify and investigate insider risk activity in DLP UEBA, UAM, and SIEM solutions
- Experience developing program metrics and presenting finding to senior leadership
- Experience mapping detections to MITRE ATT&CK and other Insider threat TTP knowledge bases
- Strong experience with insider threat detection methodologies, behavioral analytics, and risk indicators
- Proven ability to design, tune, and operationalize detection logic to improve alert quality and reduce noise
- Analytical mindset with ability to translate investigation outcomes into detection improvements
- Understanding of data classification, data movement patterns, and exfiltration techniques
- Ability to measure and improve detection effectiveness (i.e., alert fidelity, actionable alert rate)
- Strong collaboration and communication skills to influence cross-functional stakeholders
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience implementing automation or orchestration in security operations (SOAR, APIs, pipelines, scripted workflows) to accelerate response and improve consistency
- Experience applying AI-assisted analytics for alert enrichment, correlation/deduplication, prioritization, and operational reporting
- Experience contributing to training, playbooks, and tabletop exercise development
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, ITPM, SEC+)
What the job involves
- At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud
- We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do
- But we like to have fun, too
- We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work
- Workday's Cyber Defense team helps protect an ever-growing technology, global footprint
- We are responsible for monitoring, detecting, and responding to threats to the company and keeping the trust of our customers
- Functions like Security Response, Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, Secure Code Development and many others make up the fabric of who we are and what we do daily around the world
- Workday is seeking a skilled Insider Threat Analyst to support a dynamic environment
- In this role, you will play a critical part in identifying, analyzing, and mitigating insider threats by leveraging advanced security tools, behavioral analytics, and investigative techniques
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess risks, detect anomalies, and enhance the organization's overall insider threat posture
- Detection Engineering & Alert Fidelity Optimization: Design, build, and continuously refine insider threat detection logic, use cases, and analytics to improve signal quality. Focus on reducing false positives and increasing the percentage of actionable insider threat alerts
- Alert Triage, Investigation, & Feedback Loop: Lead triage and investigation of insider threat alerts, applying structured methodologies to assess risk Translate investigation outcomes into detection improvements, ensuring a continuous feedback loop between operations and engineering
- Detection Strategy & Use Case Development: Develop and implement a scalable detection strategy aligned to key insider threat risks (i.e., data exfiltration, employee exit risk, misuse). Identify gaps and prioritize new detection use cases to expand coverage and effectiveness
- Threat Hunting & Advanced Analytics: Conduct proactive threat hunting using behavioral, endpoint, and data activity signals to identify emerging insider risks. Translate findings into new detection use cases and improvements to existing detection logic
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with Data Protection, Legal, HR, and Cyber teams to ensure detections are risk-aligned, context-aware, and operationally actionable. Incorporate business context and investigation requirements into detection design to improve alert fidelity and response effectiveness
Application process
- End Date: September 30, 2026
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, Workday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & CEO)Annel began their career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. They then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005.
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