What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Investigator position at Waterfront Intelligence Inc.?
Job description
Our boutique investigations and research firm is looking for an investigations expert for our practices in complex litigation and corporate due diligence. This investigator will be a practitioner who uncovers fascinating things, and a company representative who develops clients and business.
A cover letter is required to be considered for this position.
Investigator
You will seek background information about people and companies for high stakes legal disputes and merger/acquisition transactions, and spend significant time writing about what you have found. This investigator will also find and interview people and organize surveillance operations.
The ideal investigator also enjoys strategizing business development and marketing activities. Using your knowledge of investigations you will find opportunities to speak to groups of professionals and meet potential clients one-on-one.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree is required. Master’s degree or juris doctor is a bonus.
- Experience conducting investigations for law firms, corporations and investors. Alternatively, a career conducting investigations in journalism.
- Essential knowledge of virtually all public record research.
- Solid experience using private investigative databases.
- Understanding fraud and white collar crime is preferred.
- This position demands a writer who is skilled doing research from the desktop as well as interviewing real people.
- Prior work at a global investigative consulting firm is a bonus.
- Incredible open source intelligence research skills (OSINT) are a bonus.
About Waterfront Intelligence
We primarily serve law firms and companies in disputes who come to us to untangle frauds and conduct background research. We consist of a small core group of investigators managed by one full-time investigator. We accept cases that are a good fit and decline those that would find a better home elsewhere.
This is a hybrid job based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Candidates throughout California will be considered.
Waterfront Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.