Associate Director, Corporate Security

The Associate Director serves as primary delegate to the Director and is the senior position accountable for the full scope of security and life-safety across. This role carries enterprise-wide responsibility for safeguarding FINRA’s personnel, assets, and operational continuity – spanning multiple facilities. The Associate Director oversees executive protection services for FINRA’s CEO and Management Committee, and exercises command authority over high-profile special events, contentious hearings, and critical incident response.

This position operates at the intersection of strategic leadership and operational execution, serving as a trusted advisor to organizational leadership on all matters related to physical security, risk mitigation, and life-safety.

Essential Job Functions:

Corporate Security Serves as senior delegate to the Director and provides leadership across a regional or enterprise security portfolio involving multiple locations, major events, investigations, and emergency response.

Provides strategic oversight of threat assessment and protective operations, establishing frameworks and standards for identifying, evaluating, and mitigating risks to FINRA personnel, facilities, and assets.

Manages sensitive investigations involving employee or vendor misconduct, physical security breaches, threats to personnel or facilities, and criminal activity associated with FINRA operations; ensures consistent investigative standards, confidentiality protocols, documentation practices, and corrective action planning in partnership with Legal, People Solutions, Technology, and other stakeholders.

Manages security vendor performance, guard force effectiveness, and security technology.

Advises senior leaders on physical security vulnerabilities, event readiness, workplace emergencies, high-impact incidents, and operational continuity issues.

Maintains 24/7 availability for workplace emergencies, high-impact incidents, and other significant security events.

Develops and champions enterprise security standards, policies, and standard operating procedures; drives consistent adoption and compliance across all locations in coordination with the broader Corporate Security team.

Executive Protection Leads executive protection program execution for senior executives and Management Committee activities, including protective intelligence, threat assessment, secure movement strategy, and high-profile event planning.

Establishes operating standards for protective advances, secure transportation, communications, confidentiality, site surveys, contingency planning, and incident escalation.

Provides strategic oversight of executive protection logistics and related vendor performance.

Advises senior leaders on protective risk, travel concerns, and executive event readiness.

Maintains 24/7 availability for executive protection escalations and other significant protective events.

Demonstrates FINRA’s values.

Collaborates in person and virtually in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Education/Experience Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in law enforcement at a federal, state, municipal, or corporate level, and executive protection experience required.

Minimum of five (5) years of management experience overseeing a multi-state security program.

Demonstrated expertise in threat assessment and protective intelligence.

Demonstrated experience conducting risk assessments, physical security breach investigations, and highly sensitive or confidential internal investigations.

Proficiency with security systems, including access control, CCTV monitoring, and…