Sr. GEOINT Source Strategies Analyst
Geo Owl · SDVOSB · Est. 2013
GEOINT Source Strategies Analyst
NGA · GEOINT COLLECTION · SOURCE STRATEGY · SENIOR
Effective GEOINT collection doesn't happen by accident — it happens because analysts who understand the full TCPED pipeline build strategies that match the right sensors to the right problems at the right time. As a Senior GEOINT Source Strategies Analyst, you bring five-plus years of collection management experience to bear on complex multi-source intelligence challenges, helping NGA and its customers get the imagery they need before the window closes.
Role Overview
The Senior GEOINT Source Strategies Analyst applies operational collection management expertise across the full TCPED pipeline to develop multi-source collection strategies that address complex and unusual intelligence requirements. You work with customers and source providers to translate intelligence needs into taskable collection requirements, manage large multi-source datasets, and apply knowledge of overhead sensor phenomenology and automated collection approaches to improve strategy quality. You navigate NSG and IC collection management structures and tools and operate effectively across a multi-location program management environment.
Source-Derived Role Summary
The Discover and Collection Specialist collaborates with customers and source providers to develop comprehensive multi-intelligence, multi-source strategies to address complex or unusual intelligence problems. Position supports real-time and activity-based collection, automated collection strategies, and sensemaking of large multi-source datasets in support of GEOINT collection management.
A Day in the Life
- ✓Develop multi-source, multi-intelligence collection strategies to address complex intelligence requirements — accounting for sensor availability, phenomenology constraints, and customer priorities
- ✓Support the research phase of Information Need development; assess the impacts of phenomenology on tasking decisions for traditional and non-traditional GEOINT sensors
- ✓Manage large multi-source datasets: sense-make across feeds, assess model output confidence and reliability metrics, and surface findings as actionable collection recommendations
- ✓Develop automated collection strategies and apply inferencing methodologies that derive insights from temporal and spatial datasets in collaboration with data scientists
- ✓Use NSG and IC collection management structures and collaborative tools to coordinate GEOINT collection, production, and visualization across distributed teams
- ✓Multi-task across simultaneous operational demands in a program management environment supporting several geographically separated locations
Why This Role Matters
Mission Impact
The collection strategies you develop determine what GEOINT reaches decision makers — and what doesn't. Solving complex intelligence problems through multi-source strategy is directly connected to the accuracy and timeliness of intelligence products across the IC and DoD.
Geo Owl Impact
Your operational expertise and customer relationships contribute directly to Geo Owl's performance on this contract and our reputation as a trusted GEOINT partner at NGA.
Your Growth
You'll deepen expertise in automated collection strategy and AI-informed collection approaches while expanding your network across NGA, the IC, and source communities — building the foundation for Expert-level leadership roles.
Core Responsibilities
- ▸Collaborate with customers and source providers to develop comprehensive multi-intelligence, multi-source strategies addressing complex and unusual intelligence problems
- ▸Apply TCPED lifecycle expertise — from information need development and tasking through collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination — including real-time and activity-based collection
- ▸Manage and sense-make large multi-source datasets; assess model output confidence and reliability metrics to inform collection decisions
- ▸Develop automated collection strategies; work with data scientists to apply inferencing methodologies deriving insights from temporal and spatial datasets
- ▸Support the research phase of Information Need development; advise on phenomenology impacts on tasking of traditional and non-traditional GEOINT sources
- ▸Navigate NSG focus areas and collection management structures; leverage IC collaborative tools for GEOINT collection, production, and visualization
- ▸Leverage GEOINT collection management systems to coordinate collection activity reflecting knowledge of the GEOINT Community, its focus areas, and its collection management structures
Required Qualifications
- ✓TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
- ✓Minimum 10 experience points required (see experience point calculation below)
- ✓HS diploma or GED
- ✓5+ years of experience with TCPED of GEOINT data, including support to real-time and activity-based collection
- ✓5+ years of experience managing large multi-source data, sensemaking, assessing metrics associated with model output confidence/reliability, developing automated collection strategies, and working with data scientists
- ✓Knowledge of traditional and developing overhead sensors and capabilities; exposure to automated collection strategies and inferencing methodologies deriving insights from temporal and spatial datasets
- ✓Experience with NSG focus areas and collection management structures, including NSG/IC collaborative tools for GEOINT collection, production, and visualization
- ✓Ability to collaborate with customers and source providers to develop comprehensive multi-intelligence, multi-source strategies for complex or unusual intelligence problems
- ✓Ability to support research phase of Information Need development and understand impacts of phenomenology on tasking of traditional and non-traditional GEOINT
- ✓Experience with GEOINT collection management systems reflecting knowledge of the GEOINT Community, its focus areas, and its collection management structures
- ✓Experience multi-tasking across day-to-day operations in a program management environment spanning multiple geographically separated locations
Preferred Qualifications
- ▸Experience providing feedback to assist with development of training materials
- ▸Experience with research, evaluation, and documentation of unique and non-traditional National Technical Means (NTM) sensor capabilities
- ▸Experience turning intelligence capabilities and workflows into learning objectives for training audiences
- ▸Operational experience with vector data
Experience Point Requirement
This is a Senior-level (Level 4) position requiring a minimum of 10 experience points. Points are calculated as follows:
- Education: Associate's = 2 pts · Bachelor's = 3 pts · Master's = +2 pts · PhD = +3 pts
- Professional / Military Experience: 1 pt per year of relevant experience
- Certifications: 0.5 pts each
- Specialized Training: 0.25 pts per relevant course
- Professional Impact (publications, presentations, patents): up to 3 pts total
Tools, Technologies & Tradecraft
What Makes Someone Successful in This Role
- ▸You think in collection architectures — you see sensor gaps, timing windows, and coverage conflicts before they become problems
- ▸You're fluent in phenomenology — you know how sensor physics and geometry constrain collection options and you build strategy around those realities
- ▸You bridge the analytic and technical worlds — you can collaborate with data scientists applying inferencing models and translate outputs into collection guidance
- ▸You manage competing priorities under operational pressure — multiple customers, multiple locations, a collection environment that doesn't slow down
- ▸You communicate with precision — you can take a complex intelligence need, translate it into a taskable collection requirement, and explain the tradeoffs clearly
Is This Role For You?
✔ Great Fit
You are a mid-career GEOINT collection professional with solid TCPED experience and a working knowledge of overhead sensor phenomenology and multi-source data environments. You want to develop comprehensive collection strategies on challenging intelligence problems — and you're ready to operate at pace across a distributed IC environment.
✘ May Not Be For You
This may not be the right fit if your background is primarily in imagery exploitation or finished intelligence production without direct collection management experience, or if the multi-customer, multi-location operational tempo is not a fit for your working style.
Career Growth & Professional Value
This role builds operational collection management experience at the senior level while expanding your exposure to automated and AI-informed collection approaches that are reshaping the TCPED pipeline. You'll develop relationships across NGA, the IC, and source communities that are valuable across the entire arc of a GEOINT career — and build toward Expert-level leadership in source strategy and collection management.
Benefits:
Health Insurance (Geo Owl pays 80%+ of the premium).
401k matching.
Dental, Vision, and other supplemental insurance plans available.
Company-paid short-term and long-term disability and life insurance.
Peer-to-Peer spot bonuses.
120 hours of PTO per year plus federal holidays.
Fully Paid Military Leave: *You make your full Geo Owl salary while you are on military duty*
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