Program Manager, Americas Events, Corporate Security Operations (Remote)

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Remote United States

This role involves travel, both domestically and internationally, often on short notice, with up to 50% of the time spent traveling.

Meet the Team

Global Corporate Security's mission is to protect Cisco's people, property, and assets. We operate as ONE TEAM continually improving the company's resiliency and proactive management of signicant global, regional and local incidents. Our Operations Team strives to deliver risk-based, tailored, sustainable security solutions to the Cisco community, by creating repeatable frameworks that provide a consistent and appropriate reactive approach to handling physical operational security with a commitment to improvement.

You'll be working in a high-tech fast-paced environment, focused on solving sophisticated problems creatively, efficiently, and with a high level of emotional intelligence. We are a diverse and multi-disciplined team; a collaborative global workforce of professionals committed to delivering on our common goals and objectives. This is a regional role focused on protecting Cisco at events across the Americas.

Your Impact

The Risk Manager Americas Events, Corporate Security reports to the Senior Manager Corporate Security, Global Events.

*Oversee and deliver end-to-end world-class event security, ensuring safety of all participants and assets.

* Implement scalable security strategies, SOPs, and risk mitigation plans that align with business objectives. Balance proactive measures with real-time incident management.

*Collaborate with internal teams, external partners, and law enforcement.

* Conduct event/location risk assessments, recommend risk reduction strategies, manage incident response, and perform after-action reviews for continuous improvement.

*Collaborate with internal teams to monitor regional and local risks, provide accurate threat assessments, address sophisticated security issues, and ensure compliance with event security standards.

*Leverage technology and standard methodologies to enhance event security operations and efficiency.

Minimum Qualications

*This role involves travel, both domestically and internationally, often on short notice, with up to 50% of the time spent traveling.

*Valid driver's license and passport required.

*First Aid and CPR certied (or willing to obtain).

*Bachelor's degree preferred may be waved with equivalent experience; security certications (e.g., CPP) a plus.

* 5+ years in law enforcement, military, or corporate security.

*3+ years in high-tech industry preferred with proven experience in large scale event security.

* Validated experience in leadership surrounding event planning, risk management, and relationship development.

*Comfortable engaging with global audiences, attending meetings outside standard hours, and standing for extended periods during events.

Preferred Qualications

*Strong communicator, skilled in brieng executives and addressing diverse audiences.

*Excellent critical thinker with strategic and tactical abilities; remains calm under pressure.

*Proven experience developing comprehensive security plans and adapting to changing, multicultural environments.

Experienced in networking with law enforcement at all levels.

*Emotionally intelligent, receptive to feedback, and able to multitask and solve problems effectively, has high integrity, a sense of urgency,

*Experienced in networking with law enforcement at all levels.

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.