Senior Manager, Protective Services

The role

You will lead protective operations, including staffing, training, vendor management, and incident response. This player-coach role involves working advances and traveling with the people being protected.

What you will do

• Lead protective operations including staffing, assignment, and resourcing
• Own training and qualification standards
• Manage vendors and suppliers through competitive procurement
• Act as escalation point for protective events and incident response
• Lead converged physical-cyber protection
• Build relationships with protected individuals and their teams

Required qualifications

• Ten or more years in protective, security, or military operations
• Five or more years managing people with hands-on responsibility for protective operations
• Experience running more than one protective discipline or program at the same time
• Technical fluency in network security concepts, access control, surveillance, and residential security technology
• Ability to lift and carry equipment up to 50 pounds
• Ability to assist or move a person to safety
• Ability to work in tight spaces and sit in vehicles and aircraft for extended periods
• Ability to see and assess people, vehicles, and conditions at distance and in poor light
• Ability to communicate clearly in loud environments
• Ability to drive in heavy traffic and bad conditions
• Ability to work outdoors in extreme heat, extreme cold, inclement weather, and crowds
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Wellness benefits
• Commuter benefits match
• Paid time off
• Paid sick leave
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Mental health program

Before you apply

• Position expected to be filled by 10/13/2026
• DoorDash utilizes an automated recruitment tool called Metaview

About the company

DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery. Its mission is to empower local economies.