Global Security Manager

present of AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognition, an Applied AI lab, seeks a hands-on security leader to run physical security, executive protection, travel risk and crisis response for our AI-driven environment. The role requires US citizenship and the ability to obtain a high-level clearance.

With 8+ years in corporate or global security, a background in law enforcement, military or intelligence, you will guide incident response, protect leaders and coordinate with law enforcement and government partners.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in corporate or global security.
• Background in law enforcement, military or intelligence.
• Experience making critical decisions during serious incidents.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain high-level clearance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee physical security, executive protection, travel risk and crisis response.
• Protect company leadership and maintain trust with law enforcement and government partners.
• Leverage AI tools for monitoring, alert sorting, reporting and routine tracking while retaining final decision authority.

Job description

This role asks for a hands-on security leader who can run physical security, executive protection, travel risk and crisis response for a company with offices in many countries. A strong candidate has 8 or more years in corporate or global security, a law enforcement, military or intelligence background, and real experience making the call during serious incidents. Familiarity with industrial security rules for cleared government work, plus US citizenship and the ability to be cleared at a high level, are required.

How it fits the AI era

AI changes the pace of this work by taking on monitoring, alert sorting, reporting and routine tracking that once needed a big team, so a small group can cover more ground. The posting expects the manager to use the company's own agents for this. What stays human is judgment in a crisis, protecting leaders, building trust with law enforcement and government partners, and spotting people who try to get close to staff through social engineering.

How it builds AI experience

The person in this role would get direct practice using AI agents to automate threat monitoring, travel tracking and incident reporting at a company that builds those agents. Someone preparing could start by using AI tools to summarize risk feeds, draft emergency plans and sort alerts, while keeping a person in charge of every real decision. Learning where an agent can be trusted and where it cannot is the useful lesson, especially for a frontier AI lab that is a target for foreign intelligence efforts.

Worth showing

• Incident command under pressure
• Global security program building
• Executive protection and travel risk
• Vendor and budget management
• Automating manual security work

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About Cognition

Applied AI lab building Devin, an autonomous software engineering agent that plans, writes, debugs, and deploys code