Senior Manager, Security

Summary: Yelp is seeking a strategic and experienced Senior Manager to lead our Physical Security function. This role ensures the safety, security, and overall experience of Yelp employees and visitors across multiple sites and events, while maintaining a seamless work environment that reflects our culture and values. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes. This is a full-time remote role based in the United States. What you'll do::

• Physical Security Strategy & Program Management:
• Develop, implement, and oversee Yelp’s global physical security strategy and programs, ensuring compliance with all legal and corporate requirements.
• Lead training, education, and communication initiatives to increase security awareness and preparedness across the organization.
• Own the creation and continual improvement of security policies and procedures.
• Crisis & Situation Response:
• Lead Yelp’s response to critical events (e.g., natural disasters, threats, major incidents) ensuring the safety and well-being of employees.
• Coordinate cross-functional response teams, including People Operations, Communications, Rev Ops/Customer Success, ADs, PR, and other involved departments.
• Establish and maintain clear communication protocols with executive leadership, providing timely and accurate situational updates.
• Partner with relevant external agencies as required for incident response and business continuity planning.
• Executive Security Program Management:
• Design, implement, and manage security programs and protocols tailored for Yelp’s executive team, both in the workplace and during travel, events, and public appearances.
• Conduct risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies for executive protection as warranted by events or threat intelligence.
• Collaborate closely with executive leadership, administrative teams, and external security partners to ensure proactive identification and management of potential security risks.
• Develop briefing materials and provide real-time security updates to executives as situations evolve.
• Security Operations – Buildings & Events:
• Oversee all physical security operations at Yelp offices, ensuring appropriate safeguards and monitoring processes are in place.
• Manage security and risk assessment for onsite and offsite events, ranging from small meetings to large gatherings (over 1,000 attendees).
• Collaborate with Event Operations and Workplace teams to ensure safety compliance at all functions.

What it takes to succeed::

• 8+ years of progressive experience in physical security, or a related field.
• Direct experience managing executive protection programs and protocols is highly preferred.
• Proven experience managing crisis response and employee communication during high-stakes situations.
• Track record of developing and rolling out security awareness and training programs at scale.
• Experience managing security at diverse events, including large-scale corporate gatherings.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills; experience interfacing with executive leadership.
• Excellent judgment, discretion with confidential information, and strong verbal/written communication abilities.
• Bachelor’s degree required; relevant certifications (e.g., CPP, PSP, CFM, executive protection credentials) preferred.

What you'll get::

• Effective your first day: Full medical, vision, and dental
• 15 days PTO (accrual begins on date of hire and increases with 2+ years of tenure thereafter), 12 paid holidays, plus one floating holiday
• Up to 14 weeks of parental leave
• Monthly wellness subsidy
• Work from home reimbursement
• Flexible spending account
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Compensation range for this position is $157,000.00 - $196,000.00 annually. You may also be offered a bonus and benefits.

Closing: At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.” We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition or disability. Actual salary offered may vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, an individual's location and experience. We will consider for employment qualified candidates with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law (including, for example, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for roles based in San Francisco, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for roles based in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, and the California Fair Chance Act for roles based in California). Where required by law, a criminal background check will not be conducted until after a conditional offer of employment is made, and any evaluation of a candidate's criminal background check will be subject to an individualized assessment that takes into account the candidate's specific criminal records and the responsibilities and requirements of the particular role. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or 415-969-8488. Note: Yelp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee. Yelp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. US Recruiting and Applicant Privacy Notice #LI-Remote Remote About the Company: Yelp, Inc Apply tot his job Apply To this Job