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As the Regional Security Manager, APAC, you'll lead the development and execution of Coinbase's regional security strategy on the Global Security team, protecting our people, workplaces, and operations across a diverse and rapidly evolving region. You'll own the physical security program for APAC offices, critical facilities, and data centers, partnering with business leaders and cross-functional teams to manage risk, strengthen resilience, and drive incident response across multiple countries.
What you'll do:
- Own the APAC physical security operating plan, regional risk register, site security standards, and remediation priorities across offices, critical facilities, and data centers.
- Lead site assessments, vulnerability reviews, security hardening projects, new office openings, relocations, and security system deployments across the region.
- Serve as the regional escalation point and Incident Commander for significant security events, coordinating the GSOC, workplace teams, vendors, building management, and emergency services.
- Govern regional access control, badging, visitor management, secure area access, and audit readiness while managing contracted security providers through SLAs, KPIs, and QBRs.
- Develop and maintain regional policies, SOPs, playbooks, drills, tabletop exercises, and employee-facing security guidance informed by APAC threat intelligence and local conditions.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 8+ years in physical security, risk, or resilience operations within a multinational organization, including 5+ years leading APAC regional security programs across multiple countries and sites.
- Proven experience serving as Incident Commander during complex, cross-functional, or high-consequence security events with documented outcomes.
- Hands-on experience implementing and managing access control, CCTV, alarm, visitor management, and guard force systems across multiple facilities.
- Direct experience conducting risk and vulnerability assessments and converting findings into measurable, time-bound remediation plans.
- Track record managing security vendors through SLAs, KPIs, QBRs, performance improvement plans, and contract renewals in APAC markets.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Position ID: P78374
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