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Vantage Data Centers · 6 days ago

Director of Governance, NA

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$180K/yr - $195K/yr

10+ years exp

Vantage Data Centers is a leader in data center design and operations, focusing on reliability, efficiency, and sustainability. The Director of Physical Security Governance will design and lead the North American physical security governance program, ensuring compliance and operational maturity across all sites. This role involves establishing security policies, quality assurance, and performance management frameworks to support the company's growth and security objectives.

Data CenterInformation TechnologyIT InfrastructureTechnical Support

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Design and implement the North American Physical Security Governance Program, including governance models, operating frameworks, and control structures aligned with enterprise security objectives

Establish clear accountability, ownership, and decision rights across Physical Security Design, Delivery, Operations, Technology, and the Security Management Center (SMC)

Serve as the executive-level authority for physical security governance across North America, ensuring all sites operate under a unified framework

Develop, maintain, and govern all North American physical security policies, standards, and procedures, including but not limited to: Access control, Video surveillance, Guard force operations, Incident and threat management, Visitor management, Construction site security, Data center physical security controls

Ensure policies align with corporate risk, legal, compliance, privacy, and customer contractual obligations

Translate security standards into operationally executable procedures across all North American sites

Build and lead a Quality Assurance and Compliance function for physical security, including audit programs, control testing, site inspections, and validation of operating effectiveness

Define and manage corrective action and remediation programs resulting from audits, incidents, and performance gaps

Own the governance of all physical security after-action reviews, ensuring root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive controls are documented, tracked, and closed

Define and own the physical security performance framework, including key performance indicators (KPIs), key risk indicators (KRIs), and quality metrics

Establish measurable standards for: Policy compliance, Control effectiveness, Incident response quality, Training and certification completion, Site security performance

Ensure leadership and site teams have clear, data-driven visibility into security performance, risks, and trends

Design, develop, and govern the enterprise security training and awareness framework for North America, covering all employees, contractors, and site personnel, including: Physical security awareness and policy training, Workplace violence prevention and response, Threat awareness, reporting, and escalation, Visitor management and access control expectations, New-hire and new-site onboarding security training, Annual and recurring security awareness and compliance training

Own the creation, maintenance, and governance of all security training content, including standards, curricula, learning materials, and certification requirements

Ensure training programs remain aligned with evolving threats, regulatory requirements, customer security expectations, and internal risk priorities

Partner with Human Resources, Legal, Compliance, Operations, the Security Management Center (SMC), and Technology teams to embed security training into onboarding, lifecycle training, and daily business operations

Build and mature the Outreach and Engagement function to drive adoption of physical security governance across: Data center site leadership, Construction and delivery teams, Operations and IT, Corporate stakeholders, External partners, including law enforcement and relevant government agencies

Establish and maintain strong working relationships with local, state, and federal law enforcement and government entities to support incident response, investigations, emergency preparedness, and threat mitigation

Lead change management, communications, and stakeholder engagement to ensure security standards, expectations, and governance models are consistently understood and applied across the North American portfolio

Qualification

Physical security governanceRisk managementCompliance oversightQuality assurance programsAccess control systemsSurveillance technologiesIncident management toolsStakeholder engagementChange managementTrainingCertification

Required

10+ years of experience in physical security, risk management, compliance, or governance within data centers, critical infrastructure, or high-reliability environments

Proven experience building and scaling enterprise governance, compliance, or quality assurance programs

Deep understanding of physical security controls, guard force operations, access control systems, and surveillance technologies

Experience operating in audited, regulated, or customer-validated environments

Demonstrated ability to define metrics, KPIs, and control frameworks and hold organizations accountable to them