Director of Physical Security

The role

You will own the physical risk picture end to end for warehouses storing high-value inventory. You will identify risks, write and implement policies, design security systems, and lead investigations to reduce shrink.

What you will do

• Identify and quantify physical risk across multiple domains
• Maintain current threat assessments for every warehouse
• Design and deploy access control, surveillance, and perimeter protection
• Write technical design standards, post orders, and runbooks
• Reduce external and internal shrink through investigations and controls
• Manage the employee and contractor security lifecycle
• Run guard force operations and vendor performance
• Lead security due diligence for real estate and M&A
• Hire, mentor, and lead a team of FTEs and contractors
• Own the budget and report on risk reduction metrics

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in corporate or enterprise physical security
• 5+ years leading at the director level or above
• Hands-on internal investigations experience
• Track record of building security into the employee and contractor lifecycle
• Experience building and leading teams across a range of skillsets
• Experience scaling security programs across offices and warehouses
• Hands-on experience taking a warehouse or high-value facility from design through construction and commissioning
• Experience writing technical design standards, post orders, and runbooks
• Expertise in physical access systems, surveillance design, executive protection, investigations, and vendor oversight
• Strong risk-management background
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Based within commuting distance of our East Bay warehouse

Nice to have

• Established working relationships with law enforcement
• Demonstrated shrink reduction with numbers attached
• Experience in financial services, gaming, collectibles, or other high-value-asset industries
• Regulatory exposure: SOX, FFIEC, FINRA, GDPR, CCPA

About the company

Triumph stores high-value inventory in warehouses that are growing in number and size.