Vice President Security

Prevail Recruiting; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Prevail Recruiting is seeking a Vice President of Physical Security to lead and scale a ~$35M Physical Security / Special Systems business unit across multi-state operations, including Albuquerque, NM.

This true leadership role focuses on growth, delivery, and customer outcomes. The VP will build scalable processes, manage pipeline and margins, and partner with sales, engineering, and vendors to advance strategic engagements.

Qualifications

• Experience at the intersection of physical security, technology integration, sales and project/service delivery.
• Leadership of a meaningful business unit, practice, region, or business line with P&L or operating accountability.
• Experience identifying and resolving delivery problems while protecting customer relationships and profitability.
• Strong customer-facing executive presence.
• Comfort in a technology services/VAR culture over a purely construction-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall performance and growth of the Physical Security / Special Systems practice.
• Establish operating discipline around pipeline, backlog, project delivery, risk, margins, and customer issues.
• Drive commercial growth while ensuring sales commitments remain aligned with delivery capacity and profitability.
• Improve handoffs across sales, estimating, engineering, project management, and field delivery.
• Identify project execution risks, delivery bottlenecks, and sources of margin leakage.
• Lead, develop, and create accountability across sales, project, technical, and delivery teams.
• Engage directly with customers on strategic opportunities and complex engagements.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with security technology vendors and OEM partners.
• Partner cross-functionally with sales, engineering, finance, operations, procurement, and executive leadership.
• Help integrate physical security more deeply into the organization’s broader technology and services offering.

Skills

Physical security

Sales & delivery

Leadership

Executive presence

Delivery risk management

Job description

A fast-growing, multi-state technology reseller and services organization is seeking a Vice President of Physical Security to lead and scale an established ~$35M Physical Security / Special Systems business unit.

About the Role

This is a true business-unit leadership role, not a pure sales position and not a construction-management role. The VP will have accountability for commercial growth, delivery execution, customer outcomes, team performance, and operational maturity. The goal is to build a more scalable and repeatable operating model while growing the business meaningfully beyond its current size.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall performance and growth of the Physical Security / Special Systems practice.
• Establish operating discipline around pipeline, backlog, project delivery, risk, margins, and customer issues.
• Drive commercial growth while ensuring sales commitments remain aligned with delivery capacity and profitability.
• Improve handoffs across sales, estimating, engineering, project management, and field delivery.
• Identify project execution risks, delivery bottlenecks, and sources of margin leakage.
• Lead, develop, and create accountability across sales, project, technical, and delivery teams.
• Engage directly with customers on strategic opportunities and complex engagements.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with security technology vendors and OEM partners.
• Partner cross-functionally with sales, engineering, finance, operations, procurement, and executive leadership.
• Help integrate physical security more deeply into the organization's broader technology and services offering.

Qualifications

We are seeking a leader who has successfully operated at the intersection of physical security, technology integration, sales, and project/service delivery within one of the below capacities:

• Physical security systems integrator
• IT VAR with a physical security or special systems practice
• Access control/video surveillance integrator
• Smart building or low-voltage technology provider
• Regional or national technology/security integrator
• Technology-enabled field services organization with meaningful project-delivery complexity

Required Skills

• Meaningful experience in physical security or special systems, including areas such as access control, video surveillance, low voltage, smart buildings, or related integration work.
• Demonstrated responsibility for both sales/commercial growth and delivery execution. Sales-only candidates will not be a fit.
• Leadership of a meaningful business unit, practice, region, or business line, ideally with P&L or comparable operating accountability.
• Experience identifying and resolving delivery problems while protecting customer relationships and profitability.
• Strong customer-facing executive presence.
• Comfort operating within a technology services, VAR, reseller, or systems integration culture rather than a purely construction-oriented environment.

Preferred Skills

• Experience leading a $20M-$100M business unit, region, or practice is particularly attractive, as is experience improving project/services margins, building management cadence, operating across multiple regions, and supporting SLED, healthcare, commercial, or enterprise customers.
• Familiarity with platforms such as Verkada, Genetec, Axis, LenelS2, Avigilon, and Cisco Meraki is also beneficial.