Director of Security & Guest Protection

Lead the security and protective operations program for a luxury hospitality campus in Franklin, Tennessee. The role requires exceptional security and hospitality skills, with a focus on protecting guests, employees, property, and high-profile visitors.

What You Will Do

Oversee physical security, protect VIPs, manage events, lead emergency response, oversee investigations, manage security systems, and lead and develop the security team.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate is a security leader who can confidently operate at the intersection of physical security, executive protection, emergency management, hospitality, and strategic leadership.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in physical security, protective operations, emergency management, law enforcement, military security, hotel security, corporate security, or a comparable field
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing supervisors and multi-shift security operations
• Demonstrated responsibility for staffing, performance management, training, incident command, and service delivery
• Experience in a luxury hospitality, private estate, resort, corporate campus, healthcare campus, entertainment venue, mixed-use property, or similarly service-sensitive environment
• Experience protecting VIPs, executives, celebrities, public figures, or other high-visibility individuals
• Strong experience with emergency planning, incident command, evacuation/shelter operations, fire and life-safety coordination, and emergency drills
• Ability to create professional security plans, SOPs, post orders, incident reports, diagrams, dashboards, and executive presentations
• Working knowledge of surveillance systems, access control, key management, alarms, radios, mass notification, visitor management, and security-reporting platforms
• Excellent judgment, discretion, written communication, verbal briefing, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Valid driver's license and ability to meet all applicable background, licensing, and registration requirements
• Ability to work on-site with schedule flexibility for evenings, weekends, holidays, VIP stays, major events, critical incidents, and emergencies