Senior Director, Global Security – Resilience

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the strategy, development, and implementation of global security and resilience initiatives.

• Create and uphold enterprise-level security and resilience policies, standards, procedures, and governance frameworks.

• Identify, evaluate, and address security risks and vulnerabilities impacting personnel, facilities, assets, operations, and business functions.

• Formulate strategic security initiatives encompassing travel risk, business continuity, executive and Board security, physical security technology, and insider risk.

• Manage crisis response and business continuity capabilities, which include response protocols, scenario planning, exercises, and ongoing improvement efforts.

• Supervise the Travel and Project Security Program, providing security support in higher-risk environments.

• Direct physical security operations and standards for company facilities.

• Head the Insider Risk Program along with associated prevention, awareness, mitigation, and response efforts.

• Monitor the global threat landscape and provide updates to senior leadership regarding impacts and suggested actions.

• Collaborate with business and functional leadership on strategies for risk mitigation and continuity.

• Assist in business development, capture, and proposal efforts by evaluating security needs and crafting security solutions.

• Design and deliver security awareness and training initiatives.

• Assess security programs, technologies, processes, and service providers, implementing necessary enhancements.

• Forge partnerships with internal stakeholders, government and industry counterparts, security providers, and external organizations.

• Work in conjunction with Travel, Safety, Legal, Human Resources, Information Security, and operational stakeholders.

• Lead, develop, and mentor security professionals.

• Execute additional duties as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Typically requires fifteen (15) years of progressively responsible experience in global security, corporate security, physical security, travel/project security, crisis management, and business continuity.

• Bachelor’s degree in security management, criminal justice, emergency management, business administration, international relations, or a related field.

• Extensive management and leadership experience, including oversight of security programs, personnel, budgets, vendors, or global operations.

• Proficient in developing executive-level security reports and maintaining leadership awareness of significant threats, vulnerabilities, and enterprise risks.

• Experience in supporting geographically dispersed or international operations is strongly preferred.

• Must be a U.S. citizen.

• In-depth knowledge of global security and resilience disciplines, including physical security, travel and project security, insider risk, crisis management, business continuity, and risk assessment.

• Familiarity with physical security technologies such as access control, intrusion detection, video surveillance, and related security systems.

• Strong understanding of security strategy, corporate business objectives, global operations, customer needs, and organizational risk management.

• Proven ability to evaluate complex security risks and devise effective mitigation strategies.

• Strong strategic, analytical, and critical-thinking abilities.

• Capability to develop security strategies, policies, standards, procedures, governance frameworks, and performance metrics.

• Proficient in communicating complex security risks and recommendations to executives, business leaders, customers, and stakeholders.

• Strong leadership and people-management capabilities.

• Demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries, foster consensus, and achieve results through cross-functional collaboration.

• Proven experience operating effectively in high-pressure environments and advising senior leadership.

• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive briefing skills.

• Ability to manage relationships with security vendors, consultants, government stakeholders, and external partners both domestically and internationally.

• Capacity to foresee emerging security challenges and translate threat and risk information into proactive business solutions.

• Preferred professional security, resilience, or continuity certification such as CPP or CBCP.

• Significant international security experience is preferred.

• Experience within a large, complex, geographically dispersed organization, government contractor, or similarly regulated environment is preferred.

• Familiarity with government contracting, capture, proposal, and operational security requirements is preferred.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance is preferred.

• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, including to austere or hazardous locations, as business needs dictate.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Paid time off and holidays.

• Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching).

• Educational reimbursement.

• Parental leave.

• Employee stock purchase plan.

• Tax-saving options.

• Disability and life insurance.

• Pet insurance.