US Country Security Manager

Introduction

At IBM Legal, Regulatory Affairs & General Counsel, we provide the guidance and oversight that enable IBM to innovate responsibly and operate with integrity. Our teams manage complex legal, regulatory, and compliance matters across the globe. Ensuring trust with clients, partners, and communities. Working in Legal and Regulatory Affairs means tackling diverse challenges, from intellectual property and data privacy to corporate governance and ethical business practices. You'll collaborate with colleagues worldwide to protect IBM's interests while supporting growth and innovation. With continuous learning, global exposure, and opportunities to shape the future of technology through law and policy, IBM offers a unique environment to build your career while making a meaningful impact.

Your role and responsibilities

The US Country Security Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for Corporate Security across IBM’s United States portfolio. The role is accountable for translating IBM Corporate Security strategy into a consistent, risk-based security posture across the country. This includes physical security, crisis and incident management, threat and risk management, security operations, government and law-enforcement engagement, and oversight of critical locations.

Based in Washington, DC, the role operates in a complex stakeholder environment and serves as a senior Corporate Security representative with business leaders, enabling functions, government stakeholders and external partners. The position leads through other security professionals and is accountable for national priorities, risk decisions and outcomes.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

Country security leadership

• Own the overall security posture and security operating model for the United States.
• Translate global Corporate Security strategy and standards into proportionate US requirements.
• Establish country priorities based on business criticality, threat, vulnerability and consequence.
• Provide senior leadership and escalation for significant security issues.

Risk and threat management

• Maintain a current view of security risk across the US portfolio.
• Ensure material risks and vulnerabilities are identified, assessed, escalated and appropriately treated.
• Partner with Security Intelligence, Investigations and other specialist teams to anticipate and manage

emerging risks.

Operational leadership

• Provide functional direction and governance across US security operations.
• Establish clear performance standards and drive consistency across locations.
• Ensure critical locations receive security resources proportionate to their risk and business importance.
• Drive continuous improvement and modernization of the US security model.

Crisis and incident management

• Provide senior Corporate Security leadership during significant US incidents.
• Support crisis-management structures and executive decision-making.
• Ensure lessons from incidents and exercises result in measurable improvements.

Government and external engagement

• Develop strategic relationships with federal, state and local law-enforcement and relevant government

agencies.

• Represent Corporate Security on matters requiring senior external engagement.
• Coordinate with IBM Government and Regulatory Affairs and other functions where appropriate.

Business partnership

• Build strong relationships with business leaders and with Legal, HR, Real Estate, Resiliency, IT and other

enabling functions.

• Provide clear advice to leadership on security risk, options and trade-offs.
• Balance protection requirements against business objectives, cost and operational impact.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Typically 10 or more years of progressively responsible experience in corporate security, government, law

enforcement, military security, intelligence, protective security or a comparable field.

• Demonstrated experience leading security across a large or complex organization.
• Strong crisis and incident-management capability.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong understanding of physical security, threat assessment and security risk management.
• Experience managing contracted security services and significant security expenditure.
• Excellent written and verbal executive communication skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• CPP, PSP or comparable professional security qualification.
• FEMA ICS/NIMS or comparable incident-management training.
• Experience operating in a multinational corporate environment.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.