Director, Global Safety & Security

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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.

The Role

Proofpoint is looking for a Director of Global Health and Safety to join our fast-growing Real Estate and Workplace Services (REWS) team. As the Director of Global Health and Safety, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing Proofpoint’s Global Health, Safety, and Security Programs. This senior-level position requires a strategic visionary with expertise in Safety, Security, Emergency Preparedness, and Disaster Recovery. You will be responsible for leading the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of comprehensive safety and security initiatives that protect our employees and assets globally. This role also involves guiding and growing the team, ensuring alignment with corporate and regional standards, and addressing evolving organizational needs.

Your day-to-day

Lead and Strategize Global Safety Programs: Architect, develop, and oversee the implementation of robust global safety programs, ensuring consistency across all regions and compliance with local regulations.

Program Evaluation and Integration: Critically assess existing safety and security policies, programs, and procedures, identify gaps, and integrating them into a unified, comprehensive global framework.

Collaborate with Regional Leads: Partner with regional REWS leads to establish and maintain employee safety protocols across all office locations, ensuring global compliance with safety regulations and best practices.

Emergency Preparedness and Response Management: Direct the development and management of Proofpoint’s global Emergency Response Teams, ensuring preparedness and coordination during crises.

Oversee Global Ergonomics Initiatives: Ensure global compliance with ergonomic standards by working closely with regional teams to align with local regulations.

Emergency Communication Management: Oversee the management and continuous improvement of global internal emergency communication procedures.

Corporate Physical Security Oversight: Lead the review, enhancement, and management of the corporate physical security program, ensuring alignment with senior management’s directives.

Physical Security Systems Coordination: Work with local REWS teams to design and implement physical security systems for both new and existing office locations.

Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Conduct and oversee comprehensive risk assessments for remote offices, ensuring they meet corporate and regional Safety and Security standards.

Strategic Program Development: Collaborate with stakeholders to develop long-term strategies that expand and adapt global safety and security programs in response to organizational growth, acquisitions, and new priorities.

Travel Safety and Security Management: Develop and oversee global security, health, and safety programs related to employee travel, ensuring their safety and well-being.

Compliance and Disaster Recovery Support: Support the REWS team in ensuring corporate compliance with Emergency Response Plans, Disaster Recovery Programs, and the Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP).

What you bring to the team

Proven leadership in developing and managing global health, safety, and security programs at a director or senior level.

Strong ability to prioritize and manage multiple complex projects with shifting deadlines.

Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage a global audience.

Demonstrated strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.

Strong planning, organizational, and team leadership skills, with experience working both independently and collaboratively.

Proven ability to build and maintain cross-functional partnerships.

Extensive subject matter expertise in global safety and security programs.

Flexibility to be available during off hours if needed and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, youll enjoy your career with us!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

Base Pay Range: 189,750.00 – 278,300.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

Base Pay Range: 158,400.00 – 232,320.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 144,825.00 – 212,410.00 USD

Proofpoint has been honored with six Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Career Growth, Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.

To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards

Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.

We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.

Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.

At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:

Build and enhance our proven security platform

Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture

Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel

Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.