Booking Holdings Romania - Intelligence and Security Response Analyst (Internship)

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

Role description

The Safety & Security Response team falls within the wider Booking Holdings Group Security and Resilience team(GSR), a dynamic, lean team requiring hands-on support in day to day safety and security operations. 

The intern will support the team with perform global (active) monitoring, conduct research, assessments of geopolitical events, including identifying developing trends, and triaging incoming safety and security cases, both internal and external, often requiring the utilization of OSINT tools and techniques.

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties 

Active Monitoring

• Assist in maintaining, populating, and evaluating intelligence databases and sources

• Learn and support the team on monitoring local and global events that may impact Booking Holdings or sister brands,  people, operations, assets, reputation and stakeholders and provide periodic and timely reporting

Analysis

• Assist with collecting, including through the establishment and monitoring of Boolean tripwires, assess, and organize intelligence and data into relevant, actionable reports

• Learn and use understanding of global security environment to prioritize, filter, and assess the credibility of open source intelligence sources

• Help the team to set up the foundational base of the response team and their procedures. 

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Understanding of corporate security / security governance bodies / intel / crisis management / risk management experience in a supportive role. 

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package 
• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.