Physical Security Lead

Location: San Francisco, CA; based in the San Francisco office with regular travel to other offices. Workplace type: Onsite.

Salary: $75–$90 per hour, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global provides a customer-facing AI agent platform for major brands and is primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.

What you will do

• Build and own hirify.global's global physical security program for people, offices, events, and information.
• Set the security strategy, policies, standards, site tiers, roadmap, budget, and metrics across all locations.
• Govern badge access, video, intrusion detection, visitor management, least-privilege access reviews, monitoring, and backup power in partnership with Workplace Technology.
• Define security requirements for office openings and build-outs, partnering with Workplace, landlords, architects, and integrators through commissioning.
• Develop sensitive-space, insider-risk, workplace violence prevention, behavioral threat assessment, incident response, emergency preparedness, and compliance programs.
• Plan security for events, executives, and travel while managing guard, security services, integrator, and executive protection vendors.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in corporate physical security, global security, or security operations, including building or substantially scaling a program at a fast-growing technology company.
• Track record of establishing a physical security function at an early stage, including policies, vendors, budget, metrics, and team.
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud-based access control, video, and visitor management platforms such as Verkada, Brivo, Avigilon Alta, Genetec, or Envoy, including integration with identity systems such as Okta.
• Experience conducting site risk assessments, threat assessments, and investigations, and handling sensitive matters with discretion alongside People and Legal.
• Calm, decisive incident and emergency leadership, including serving as incident lead and running after-action reviews.
• Experience securing offices across multiple regions, including Europe and Asia, and managing guard, integrator, and executive protection vendors.
• Ability to build security programs that employees welcome and communicate risk clearly to executives, engineers, and building partners.
• Law enforcement, military, or government experience is valued alongside corporate experience.

Nice to have

• ASIS PSP or CPP certification.
• Experience running TSCM programs or protecting sensitive R&D or AI research environments.
• Experience with GSOC operations, mass notification, or travel risk management platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with flexible unlimited paid time off, medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and families.
• Life insurance, disability benefits, a country-dependent retirement plan, parental leave, and fertility and family-building benefits.
• Lunch, snacks, coffee, a discretionary benefit stipend, and free alphorn lessons.
• Eligible full-time employees can participate in hirify.global's equity plans; benefits may vary by region and are subject to applicable policies.
• Culture centered on Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family, with support for diverse skills and experiences.