Area Security Leader - Global Corporate Security

Amazon Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Corporate Security is seeking an experienced Area Security Manager to lead security operations across multiple sites in the Seattle region. The role emphasizes leadership, incident response, and risk mitigation, aligned with Amazon’s leadership principles.

You will oversee guarding operations, security plans, and stakeholder communications, while developing plans to close gaps and improve controls. This role requires delivering best-in-class security services to protect employees,

Responsibilities

• Deliver best-in-class security services focused on enhancing the safety and security of all Amazon employees, contractors, and visitors.
• Line-manage security professionals and day-to-day security operations for a diverse portfolio of sites and customers with unique requirements.
• Implement and improve security plans, policies, and programs.
• Coordinate security incident response.
• Respond to customer security concerns.
• Monitor the external threat environments in the defined area and take measures to minimize security risk to the business to the dynamic security environment.
• Successfully align ACS metrics, goals, and strategic direction across the geographic area to support overall team mission.
• Earn trust through key customer and stakeholder engagements, and liaison with external partners.
• Be the trusted security advisor and subject matter expert in the assigned area of responsibility, through high quality communication and excellent briefing skills.
• Communicate accurately and in a timely manner with stakeholders at the tactical and strategic level.
• Build and maintain close relationships with peers at other security functions at Amazon to exchange and share security concerns and collaborate on closing gaps and building best practices.

Job description

Amazon Corporate Security is seeking an experienced Area Security Manager to lead security operations across multiple sites in the Seattle region. The role emphasizes leadership, incident response, and risk mitigation, aligned with Amazon’s leadership principles.

You will oversee guarding operations, security plans, and stakeholder communications, while developing plans to close gaps and improve controls. This role requires delivering best-in-class security services to protect employees,