About this role

The Associate Director serves as primary delegate to the Director and is the senior position accountable for the full scope of security and life-safety across. This role carries enterprise-wide responsibility for safeguarding FINRA’s personnel, assets, and operational continuity – spanning multiple facilities. The Associate Director oversees executive protection services for FINRA’s CEO and Management Committee, and exercises command authority over high-profile special events, contentious hearings, and critical incident response. This position operates at the intersection of strategic leadership and operational execution, serving as a trusted advisor to organizational leadership on all matters related to physical security, risk mitigation, and life-safety.

Essential Job Functions:

Corporate Security

- Serves as senior delegate to the Director and provides leadership across a regional or enterprise security portfolio involving multiple locations, major events, investigations, and emergency response.
- Provides strategic oversight of threat assessment and protective operations, establishing frameworks and standards for identifying, evaluating, and mitigating risks to FINRA personnel, facilities, and assets.
- Manages sensitive investigations involving employee or vendor misconduct, physical security breaches, threats to personnel or facilities, and criminal activity associated with FINRA operations; ensures consistent investigative standards, confidentiality protocols, documentation practices, and corrective action planning in partnership with Legal, People Solutions, Technology, and other stakeholders.
- Manages security vendor performance, guard force effectiveness, and security technology.
- Advises senior leaders on physical security vulnerabilities, event readiness, workplace emergencies, high-impact incidents, and operational continuity issues.
- Maintains 24/7 availability for workplace emergencies, high-impact incidents, and other significant security events.
- Develops and champions enterprise security standards, policies, and standard operating procedures; drives consistent adoption and compliance across all locations in coordination with the broader Corporate Security team.

Executive Protection

- Leads executive protection program execution for senior executives and Management Committee activities, including protective intelligence, threat assessment, secure movement strategy, and high-profile event planning.
- Establishes operating standards for protective advances, secure transportation, communications, confidentiality, site surveys, contingency planning, and incident escalation.
- Provides strategic oversight of executive protection logistics and related vendor performance.
- Advises senior leaders on protective risk, travel concerns, and executive event readiness.
- Maintains 24/7 availability for executive protection escalations and other significant protective events.
- Demonstrates FINRA’s values.
- Collaborates in person and virtually in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.
- Performs other duties as assigned.

Education/Experience Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in law enforcement at a federal, state, municipal, or corporate level, and executive protection experience required.
- Minimum of five (5) years of management experience overseeing a multi-state security program.
- Demonstrated expertise in threat assessment and protective intelligence.
- Demonstrated experience conducting risk assessments, physical security breach investigations, and highly sensitive or confidential internal investigations.
- Proficiency with security systems, including access control, CCTV monitoring, and surveillance technologies.
- Proven ability to build trust and cultivate strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact and communicate professionally effectively across all organizational levels.
- Strong situational awareness, threat detection, and de-escalation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment and make rapid decisions under pressure in dynamic, high-consequence situations.
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality and exercise discretion regarding sensitive executive information.
- Strong computer proficiency and comfort with relevant security and business platforms.
- Excellent judgment, interpersonal skills, and attention to detail.
- HR218 (LEOSA) certification preferred.
- Current Certification in Protection Professional (CPP) designation through ASIS International preferred.
- Certified Protection Professional (CPP) or comparable executive protection certification (e.g., accredited EP academy certification) preferred.
- Strict confidentiality regarding executive schedules, home addresses, and personal details.
- Current certifications in CPR, AED, and Basic First Aid; advanced medical/trauma training (e.g., TCCC, EMR, or equivalent) preferred.
- Valid driver's license with a clean driving record required; professional protective/defensive driving certification required.
- Ability to pass comprehensive background checks, drug screenings, and motor vehicle record reviews.
- Established professional relationships with law enforcement, emergency services, or protective intelligence resources preferred.

Work Conditions:

- This position works on site in a FINRA office location.

- Must be available to work outside of standard business hours and maintain 24/7 on-call availability.
- Regular travel will be required.

For work that is performed in CO, CT, IL, PA, MA, MD, VA, WA, DC, NY, NJ, WA please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and regulations requiring the disclosure of salary ranges for the position. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s skill set, level of experience, education, and market considerations.

Boston, MA: $131,200 - $238,300

Chicago, IL: $125,900 - $228,000

Denver, CO: $114,200 - $207,200

Jericho, NY: $131,200 - $238,300

Jersey City, NJ: $137,000- $248,700

Philadelphia, PA: $125,900 - $228,000

New York, NY: $137,000 - $248,700

Rockville, MD: $131,200 - $238,300

Tysons, VA: $131,200 - $238,300

Washington, DC: $131,200 - $238,300

Woodbridge, NJ: $131,200 - $238,300

Connecticut State: $114,200 - $248,700

Washington State: $114,200 - $248,700

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To be considered for this position, please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required.

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Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Non-exempt employees are also eligible for overtime pay in accordance with federal, state, or local law. As part of its dedication to employee wellness, FINRA provides comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance. Additional insurance includes basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal. FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, and other benefits that support employee wellness, such as adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs.

Time Off and Paid Leave*

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program starting at 15 days of paid time off (increasing with years of service, up to 25 days), 5 personal days, and 9 sick days, unless otherwise required by law (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally, we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave, jury duty leave, bereavement leave, voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections, care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

*Based on full-time schedule

Important Information

FINRA’s Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees’ investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Code’s investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions—including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA’s Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President—by the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.

You can read more about these restrictions here .

As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRA’s Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company’s policy on nepotism.

Washington state applicants: click here for required notice(s).

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FINRA is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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