Sr Safety/Security Manager at Visa in Ashburn, VA

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About Us Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. Job Description Overview: The Global Security Operations Center Senior Operations Manager leads the daily operations, performance, readiness, and continuous improvement of a 24/7 security operations center supporting employee safety, asset protection, incident response, emergency communications, and tactical global risk monitoring. This role ensures operators, platforms, vendors, systems, and procedures are aligned to support timely, accurate, and consistent security operations across the enterprise. The Senior Operations Manager is responsible for overseeing incident intake, alarm monitoring, real-time threat reporting, operator training, quality control, staffing, platform performance, vendor coordination, metrics tracking and reporting, and escalation protocols. The role requires strong operational judgment, leadership under pressure, and the ability to translate emerging security issues into clear guidance for operators, regional security teams, business partners, and senior leaders. The Senior Operations Manager may be required to brief leadership, travel in support of major events or operational requirements, and represent the organization in external benchmarking and professional networks to ensure the operations center remains aligned with industry best practices and emerging capabilities. Key Responsibilities: Global Security Operations and Incident Response: The Sr. Manager, Global Security Operations Center is responsible for leading day-to-day GSOC operations, ensuring continuous monitoring, incident response, threat assessment, crisis support, and coordination across regional security teams, site leaders, and business stakeholders to protect employees, assets, and business operations. The role oversees operational reporting, emergency communications, performance metrics, and executive dashboards, using data-driven analysis to identify trends and implement improvements that enhance service quality, operational effectiveness, and risk reduction. Additionally, the manager maintains operational readiness through governance of procedures, training, exercises, and response protocols, while supporting major events, cross-functional initiatives, vendor management activities, and business travel requirements. Platform, Systems, Vendors, and Technical Operations: The Sr. Manager serves as the operational owner for key security technology platforms, ensuring they effectively support incident management, employee safety, threat monitoring, intelligence, and GSOC operations while driving continuous improvement in workflows, automation, reporting, and user experience. The role also manages vendor relationships and platform performance, evaluating service quality, support responsiveness, and operational effectiveness. Workforce Leadership and Contractor Company Coordination: The Sr. Manager leads the development, readiness, and performance of GSOC personnel and contract operators, ensuring the team maintains the staffing levels, skills, training, operational discipline, and decision-making capabilities required to support a complex global security environment. The role provides leadership during routine operations, major incidents, and crisis activations while fostering a culture of accountability, professionalism, service excellence, and continuous improvement across the operations center. In partnership with contract security providers and vendor managers, th