About the Role
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. This leader will establish and lead a scalable enterprise security program supporting corporate offices, operational data centers, construction sites, executive activities, and corporate events. The Vice President will build the organization, establish governance, influence executive decision-making, and ensure security capabilities evolve in alignment with STACK's rapid growth.
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.
- 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.
- Demonstrated success building organizations during periods of rapid growth.
- Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and lead through collaboration across complex, dispersed organizations.
- The sophistication to tell credible threats to safety apart from lawful community activity, protests, and civic engagement, and to keep security measures proportionate and privacy-respecting.
- 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.
- Must be eligible to work in the United States.
- Must pass a comprehensive background screening.
Skills
- Security strategy
- Security management
- Team building
- Physical security technology
- Access control
- Video security
- Visitor management
- Protective intelligence
- Executive protection
- Crisis management
- Business continuity
- Risk assessment
- Risk mitigation
- Communication
- Persuasion
- Analytics
- Decision-making
- Collaboration
- Curiosity
- Continuous improvement
Location
- Denver, CO
- Any STACK Data Center Location
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Vice President
- Senior leadership
- 15+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably within security management, criminal justice, emergency management, business, or engineering.
- Advanced degree desired but not required.
- ASIS Certified Protection Professional (CPP) or equivalent senior security leadership experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $228,960.00 - $263,940.00
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401K program
- Flexible spending accounts
- Cell phone subsidy
About the Company
- 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.
- Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.
- STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need.
- The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.
Equal Opportunity
- STACK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
