Physical Security Lead

What you'll do

• Own executive protection, including risk assessments, travel security, advance work, and provider management.
• Lead event security and establish global office security standards, including access control and video surveillance.
• Manage security vendors, emergency preparedness, physical access governance, and program reporting; use AI and automation to scale operations.

What they ask for

• 6+ years in corporate or physical security, including 3+ years owning a security program or major workstream at a multi-site company.
• Hands-on depth in at least two of executive protection, event security, or physical security systems, with working knowledge of the third.
• Experience administering or deploying enterprise access-control and video platforms and partnering with IT on networking and SSO.
• Willingness to work from the NYC office 4 days a week, travel 10–15%, support occasional evening and weekend events, and serve as primary on-call; real, day-to-day use of AI tools.

Nice to have

• ASIS CPP or PSP; formal executive protection training; first aid or Stop the Bleed certification.
• Experience in high-growth tech, fintech, or financial services, or writing office security design standards.

Pay

$134.4K – $215K (base salary)

Tools

Avigilon Alta/Openpath, Verkada, Genetec, LenelS2, SOC 2, PCI DSS, FedRAMP

AI focus

Use AI tools day to day and apply AI and automation to scale the physical security program without increasing headcount.