Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Help us scale our global security team!

Stripe is looking for an experienced Regional Security Manager to join our team. As the Regional Security Manager Americas at Stripe, you will be responsible for developing our core physical security deliverables to office locations in the Americas (North America and parts of Latin America), and help evolve our program to support Stripe around the globe. You will work cross functionally within the Corporate Security team, and alongside other business teams at the company to keep Stripe secure and Stripes safe.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Serve as a leader on the team reporting to the Head of Global Security Operations.
• Manage and provide oversight of our physical security operations function in the Americas region and support the wider team globally as required.
• Work closely with Stripe's business leads, workplace teams and external business partners to optimize the team to scale with business needs.
• Build, review, and refine policy and procedure guidance documents for security practices, user operations escalations, event management, crisis management, and incident documentation. 
• Partner with functional, business and vendor teams across the company to conduct risk, threat and vulnerability assessments to identify and document Stripe's most impactful risks. Recommend and deploy appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Effectively manage services providers, ensuring an effective risk based programs operating within a developed set of standard operating procedures. Provide feedback through service level agreements, quarterly business reviews and agreed key performance indicators. 
• Forecast budgets accurately, make improvement and cost-efficiency suggestions and manage operations to budget.
• Create and administer employee education programming to increase security awareness levels throughout the regional offices as we continue to develop a culture of security that protects Stripe and our users.
• Collaborate with business continuity, crisis management and environmental, health & safety teams to ensure emergency incident and crisis response plans are in place and tested regularly.  
• Provide security design expertise and project management in relation to new office builds and expansion efforts throughout the region.
• Spearhead the planning and execution of proactive, innovative security programs and projects to reduce risk to Stripe.

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply.

Minimum requirements

• At least 5+ years experience working at a multinational company, with responsibility for regional security operations in the Americas.
• Hold a degree in a security or risk related field and/or be certified through ASIS International with a CPP or similar designation that demonstrates an active interest and desire to continually develop in your professional field.
• A solid understanding of core physical security risks and threats, and experience in developing effective and measurable programs in an international setting.
• A strategic mindset with a service attitude, constantly working towards satisfying the needs of our users.
• Be a great communicator and solid project manager, able to effectively prioritize and advance a large number of projects happening simultaneously, often on tight deadlines.
• A highly developed network of resources, cultivated through years of building relationships in the security industry, government and the tech community to ensure your effectiveness in a wide region with complex geopolitical, cultural, and business environments.
• Extreme organizational skills, hyper-responsiveness, and leadership excellence. 
• Be able to travel internationally (when restrictions allow) up to 25% of the time, sometimes at short notice.
• Demonstrated experience in proactively and collaboratively assessing and mitigating organizational risks and challenges to deliver successful outcomes.