Senior Director, Security and Safety

Title: Senior Director, Security and Safety

Employee Status: Regular Full Time

Work From Home Option: Not Applicable

FLSA Status: Exempt

The Senior Director, Security & Safety is an enterprise-wide executive leadership role within the Security Department, reporting directly to the Vice President of Security. This position exercises absolute governance and strategic ownership over NYRA’s comprehensive security matrix, shielding thousands of personnel, high-profile guests, and multi-million-dollar assets across all facilities. Moving beyond baseline administrative oversight, the Senior Director orchestrates the long-term architectural planning, cross-functional integration, and advanced execution of corporate security and safety initiatives.

The role drives organizational resilience by instilling accountability across subordinate management tiers, pioneering cost‑efficiencies to maximize multi-million-dollar departmental budgets, and proactively managing enterprise risks. Additionally, the Senior Director serves as a key regulatory emissary, ensuring all security, intelligence, and safety operations dynamically align with shifting state and federal legal statutes, internal policies, and modern corporate governance standards.

• Enterprise Risk Governance & Strategic Vision:
  Architect and govern the enterprise-wide risk management framework; continuously forecast emerging threat landscapes, quantify vulnerabilities, and deploy long-term strategic mitigation roadmaps to immunize the organization against financial, operational, and reputational risks.
• Policy Architecture & Regulatory Compliance:
  Author, formalize, and mandate comprehensive security and safety policies, corporate standards, and Standard Operating Procedures; establish rigorous internal compliance matrices that strictly align operations with evolving federal, state, and local regulatory statutes.
• Physical & Digital Security Infrastructure Management:
  Drive the strategic design, capital investment strategy, and deployment of integrated physical security matrices, including advanced access control architectures and state-of-the-art surveillance technologies (CCTV, intrusion detection), maximizing the protection of high-value assets and multi-site infrastructure.
• Crisis Management, Resiliency & Incident Leadership:
  Command the global incident command structure; design, test, and activate enterprise-wide crisis management and business continuity plans to ensure instantaneous, decisive containment and institutional recovery during catastrophic events or security breaches.
• Continuous Security Optimization & Audit Control:
  Systematically mandate and oversee rigorous, data-driven security audits, red-team penetration testing, and structural site vulnerability assessments to continuously validate operational readiness, optimize system efficiencies, and enforce absolute accountability.
• Fiscal Governance & Capital Allocation:
  Direct the strategic formulation, execution, and optimization of departmental operating and capital expenses and budgets; pioneer cost-efficiency frameworks, participate in high-value enterprise vendor contract negotiations, and align resource allocation with overarching corporate safety priorities to maximize return on security investments.

• Enterprise Risk Governance:
  Proven ability to architect, embed, and oversee complex risk management frameworks; expert in designing comprehensive, multi-site security audit programs that proactively identify and mitigate emerging threats.
• Strategic & Analytical Vision:
  Decisive capability to transform abstract, complex security challenges into actionable strategies; utilizes advanced data modeling and root-cause analysis to protect the organization from catastrophic operational and financial risk.
• Executive Leadership & Succession Planning:
  Proven excellence in cultivating a culture of accountability across multi-tiered management groups; specializes in strategic mentorship, succession planning, and driving high-performance security operations aligned with broad corporate mandates.
• High-Stakes Crisis Communications:
  Ability to command information flow…