Head of Corporate Security at F5, Inc. in Seattle, WA

Job description

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive. Position Overview The Head of Corporate Security is a strategic leadership role accountable for protecting the company's people, executives, facilities, and reputation. This leader sets the enterprise policies and standards that govern Physical Security and Travel Security, and provides independent oversight to confirm that the teams operating those programs meet them. The role directly owns the Executive Protection program end to end, covering risk assessment, protective operations, vendor management, and budget. Working across Workplace/Real Estate, Travel, HR, Legal, Communications, Information Security, and Enterprise Resilience, this leader moves corporate security from reactive incident response to an intelligence-led, risk-based discipline. The role has authority to escalate material security risks to executive leadership and to require remediation when programs fall short of enterprise standards. Ownership Model · Physical Security (Policy, Standards & Oversight): Sets enterprise physical security policy and minimum standards; Workplace/Facilities and site teams own day-to-day operations, guard services, and system administration. · Travel Security (Policy, Standards & Oversight): Sets travel risk policy, risk ratings, and approval requirements; Corporate Travel and the travel risk provider own booking, traveler tracking, and assistance delivery. · Executive Protection (Ownership & Oversight): Owns program strategy, operations, staffing and vendors, budget, and performance for the protection of designated executives and the Board. Key Responsibilities Corporate security strategy: Define and run a multi-year corporate security strategy and operating model aligned to enterprise risk appetite, business growth, and the company's global footprint. Physical security policy and standards: Establish and maintain enterprise physical security policies and tiered site standards (access control, video surveillance, visitor management, alarm monitoring, guard services, secure areas) aligned with the ASIS Physical Asset Protection standard and industry best practice. Physical security oversight: Provide independent oversight of site security programs operated by Workplace/Facilities through site risk assessments, compliance reviews, and control testing. Approve security design requirements for new sites, renovations, and major events. Travel risk policy and standards: Own the enterprise travel risk management policy, aligned with ISO 31030, including destination risk ratings, high-risk travel approval, pre-travel briefings, traveler tracking requirements, and medical/security assistance and evacuation standards. Travel program oversight: Oversee the travel risk program delivered by Corporate Travel and third-party providers. Monitor compliance, provider performance, and incident response, and confirm duty-of-care obligations are met for employees, contractors, and accompanying travelers. Executive protection program ownership: Build and lead the Executive Protection program for the CEO, designated executives, and Board members, including individual risk and needs assessments, protective coverage levels, residential security assessments, secure transportation, and event and travel advance work. Protective intelligence: Run protective intelligence and threat assessment for executives and the company, including monitoring of online threats and exposure of executives' personal information, behavioral