Vice President, Enterprise Security

About the role

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. The Vice President, Enterprise Security serves as STACK's senior security leader responsible for protecting the company's people, critical infrastructure, operations, executives, customers, and reputation across the Americas.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the executive advisor to senior leadership on enterprise security risks, emerging threats, and strategic security investments.
• Present security strategy, performance metrics, and enterprise risk updates to Executive Leadership.
• Own the physical security of STACK’s corporate offices, operational data centers, and construction sites, including the advisory relationship with general contractors and verification of contractor security plans on the construction side.
• Establish governance, policies, standards, performance metrics, and continuous improvement processes.
• Develop the enterprise roadmap for physical security technologies, including access control, video security, visitor management, and emerging security solutions.
• Participate in vulnerability and risk assessments with the accountability to develop and implement effective risk mitigation strategies.
• Lead enterprise response to significant security incidents, investigations, and executive-level threat situations.
• Support customer security reviews, audits, and due diligence activities
• Define a strategy and work with third-party security providers so that protective intelligence, assessment, and executive protection plans are effective proportionate, lawful, and respectful of privacy and civil liberties.
• Collaborate with key STACK stakeholders and clients to evaluate and plan for secure and safe events.
• Support STACK’s crisis management and business continuity programs.
• Recruit and lead high-performing security leaders to execute strategic plans.

Requirements

• Minimum 15 years’ progressively responsible leadership in corporate security
• Experience leading enterprise security programs within data centers, cloud infrastructure, critical infrastructure, technology, utilities, telecommunications, or similarly complex environments.
• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably within security management, criminal justice, emergency management, business, or engineering.
• Direct experience standing up or leading broad range of security responsibilities including corporate offices, data centers, construction sites, executive protection, protective intelligence and crisis-management.
• ASIS Certified Protection Professional (CPP) or equivalent senior security leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success building organizations during periods of rapid growth.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and lead through collaboration across complex, dispersed organizations.
• Demonstrated experience selecting, managing, and evaluating strategic security consulting firms and outsourced security providers.
• Strong command of the legal, privacy, and civil-liberties dimensions of enterprise physical security.
• Familiarity with enterprise physical security technology including IP video and network-based access control systems.

Qualifications

The successful candidate will have a strong background in security strategy and management, and will build and grow a high-performing security team across a portfolio of operating data centers, construction sites, and office locations.

Skills

The successful candidate will be a strong communicator, persuasive and clear, blending analytics with experience in decision-making. They will be a team builder, taking the time to understand and develop the strengths of their resources while formulating long-term plans for the growth and success of the team. They will be naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package with strong benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401K program
• Flexible spending accounts
• Cell phone subsidy
• Peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs

Pay

Compensation Range $228,960.00 - $263,940.00