Head of Physical Security

About Marvell

Marvell’s semiconductor solutions are the essential building blocks of the data infrastructure that connects our world. Across enterprise, cloud and AI, and carrier architectures, our innovative technology is enabling new possibilities. 

At Marvell, you can affect the arc of individual lives, lift the trajectory of entire industries, and fuel the transformative potential of tomorrow. For those looking to make their mark on purposeful and enduring innovation, above and beyond fleeting trends, Marvell is a place to thrive, learn, and lead. 

Your Team, Your Impact

What You Can Expect

You will lead Marvell’s global physical security function, including an operating model that currently includes approximately 50 team members, with a significant portion of the team delivered through contractor and vendor partnerships. This is a high-impact leadership role that will partner closely with Workplace, Facilities, Real Estate, IT, Cybersecurity, Legal, HR, Executive Leadership, Corporate Communications, Travel, EHS, and regional business leaders.

You will be the global enterprise owner for physical security strategy, governance, standards, incident response, executive advisory, vendor performance, security technology, and operational excellence. You will also have the opportunity to build stronger connectivity between physical security, cyber response, business continuity, travel risk, and crisis management through the development of a modern, intelligence-led security operating model.

This role is ideal for a hands-on, enterprise-minded leader who can move comfortably from executive briefings to site-level risk reviews, from policy creation to incident response, and from strategic planning to real-time operational execution.

As Head of Global Physical Security, you will define and lead Marvell’s global strategy for protecting employees, visitors, customers, vendors, facilities, intellectual property, critical business operations, and executive leadership.

You will build a risk-based, globally consistent physical security program that supports Marvell’s business strategy and reflects the complexity of a global semiconductor company operating across corporate offices, engineering sites, labs, customer-facing locations, and high-value technology environments.

Key responsibilities include:

Global Strategy, Governance, and Program Leadership

• Develop and communicate Marvell’s global physical security strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities, enterprise risk, workplace strategy, and executive expectations.
• Establish a corporate-wide Strategic Physical Security Program with clear governance, operating rhythms, service levels, KPIs, escalation paths, and executive reporting.
• Create, update, and enforce global physical security policies, standards, playbooks, procedures, and controls aligned with industry best practices, applicable laws, and regional requirements.
• Build a scalable global operating model that balances enterprise consistency with local execution across regions and sites.
• Serve as Marvell’s senior subject matter expert on physical security risk, workplace safety, threat response, and security posture.

Protection of People, Workplaces, and Operations

• Protect Marvell employees, contractors, visitors, customers, vendors, executives, and facilities through proactive risk identification, prevention, response, and continuous improvement.
• Lead the development of workplace security programs covering access control, visitor management, CCTV / video surveillance, intrusion detection, alarms, badge governance, lobby security, mail and package screening, parking, perimeter protection, and sensitive-area controls.
• Ensure physical security measures are effective, reliable, properly maintained, and appropriate for the risk profile of each site.
• Establish global standards for security at offices, labs, engineering spaces, events, executive visits, customer meetings, and high-profile internal gatherings.
• Embed security into the planning, design, construction, renovation, and commissioning of new and existing Marvell facilities.

Risk, Intelligence, Crisis Management, and Incident Response

• Develop a global physical security risk assessment framework that identifies vulnerabilities, prioritizes remediation, and drives measurable risk reduction.
• Conduct and oversee audits, inspections, site assessments, tabletop exercises, and post-incident reviews.
• Lead Marvell’s response to significant physical security threats, incidents, workplace violence concerns, protests, natural disasters, geopolitical disruptions, executive threats, and other crises affecting people or facilities.
• Build a stronger threat-monitoring and intelligence capability to assess emerging risks across Marvell’s global footprint.
• Develop and lead international travel safety protocols, including traveler education, risk monitoring, active traveler tracking, escalation procedures, and emergency support.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, IT, and business continuity teams to establish a Fusion Center model that integrates cyber response, physical security, threat intelligence, travel risk, emergency response, and IT help desk coordination.

Security Technology, GSOC, and Operational Excellence

• Evaluate, modernize, and govern Marvell’s global security technology ecosystem, including access control, video management systems, intrusion detection, emergency notification, visitor management, mass communication, analytics, alarm monitoring, and incident management tools.
• Define the roadmap for a Global Security Operations Center capability, including 24/7 monitoring, intelligence collection, incident triage, escalation, reporting, and after-action analysis.
• Ensure security systems are integrated, reliable, auditable, and aligned with operational, compliance, and customer expectations.
• Develop a metrics-driven operating model that gives leaders visibility into security posture, incidents, risk trends, vendor performance, remediation progress, and budget impact.
• Drive standardization, simplification, and continuous improvement across Marvell’s global physical security operations.

Vendor, Contractor, Budget, and Team Leadership

• Lead, train, and develop a global security team composed of employees, contractors, vendors, and regional partners.
• Oversee security vendor strategy, selection, contracting, performance management, service quality, compliance, cost control, and continuous improvement.
• Manage a significant global security budget, ensuring investments are prioritized based on risk, business impact, operational effectiveness, and long-term scalability.
• Build a high-accountability culture across internal and external security resources.
• Create training, awareness, and education programs that help employees understand security protocols, emergency procedures, travel safety expectations, and incident reporting channels.

Executive Advisory, Investigations, and External Partnerships

• Advise senior executives on physical security risk, protective measures, emerging threats, incident response, and strategic investments.
• Prepare clear, concise, executive-ready briefings on global security posture, major incidents, program maturity, and risk mitigation plans.
• Lead or support investigations involving major physical security incidents, workplace threats, facility intrusions, theft, suspicious activity, executive concerns, or other significant events.
• Build trusted relationships with law enforcement, emergency management agencies, intelligence-sharing organizations, industry security associations, peer companies, and relevant public-private security groups.
• Represent Marvell externally as an experienced, credible, and business-oriented security leader.

This is a rare opportunity to build and elevate a global physical security function at a technology company whose products are foundational to AI, cloud, networking, and next-generation data infrastructure.

You can expect:

• Enterprise-level scope: You will shape the global security strategy for a semiconductor leader with employees, operations, customers, and partners across multiple regions.
• A build-and-transform mandate: This is not a maintenance role. You will assess the current state, define the future state, and build the roadmap to get there.
• Executive visibility: You will regularly advise senior leadership and influence decisions that affect employee safety, workplace strategy, business continuity, and risk posture.
• Cutting-edge business context: You will support teams working on advanced semiconductor technologies that enable AI infrastructure, cloud-scale systems, data movement, optical connectivity, custom silicon, networking, and storage.
• Cross-functional partnership: You will work across Cybersecurity, IT, Workplace, Legal, HR, Facilities, Real Estate, EHS, Communications, Finance, Procurement, and business units.
• Global complexity: You will lead across geographies, cultures, regulatory environments, travel risks, geopolitical developments, and site-specific operating needs.
• A culture of rigor and innovation: Marvell values integrity, customer-focused innovation, thorough execution, and collaboration. This role requires a leader who can bring those same behaviors to a modern global security program.
• A full-time in-office leadership environment: This role is based in the office five days per week. Remote and hybrid arrangements are not available for this position.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for a proven global physical security leader who combines strategic vision, operational discipline, executive presence, and hands-on crisis leadership. The ideal candidate has built or transformed a global security function in a complex, high-growth, technology, semiconductor, data center, manufacturing, infrastructure, or multinational corporate environment.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in physical security, corporate security, global security operations, executive protection, crisis management, law enforcement, military, intelligence, or a related field.
• 8+ years of leadership experience managing global, regional, or multi-site physical security programs.
• Demonstrated experience building enterprise security strategy, governance frameworks, security policies, standards, operating procedures, and global program roadmaps.
• Strong background in access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, alarm monitoring, visitor management, GSOC operations, emergency notification, and security technology platforms.
• Proven ability to lead crisis response, workplace incident response, threat assessment, travel risk, executive protection, investigations, and emergency management.
• Experience managing contract security providers, systems integrators, consultants, and other security vendors at scale.
• Demonstrated success managing significant budgets, complex projects, and competing priorities across global regions.
• Experience advising executive leaders and presenting security risks, recommendations, metrics, and investment priorities in a clear, business-oriented manner.
• Strong understanding of security requirements for corporate offices, engineering sites, labs, customer visits, high-value technology environments, and construction projects.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in semiconductor, technology, data center, cloud infrastructure, telecommunications, advanced manufacturing, or critical infrastructure environments.
• Experience building or maturing a GSOC, Fusion Center, threat intelligence function, or integrated physical / cyber incident response model.
• Experience with global travel risk management, geopolitical monitoring, and international employee support.
• Experience embedding physical security requirements into design, construction, renovation, and commissioning of facilities.
• Familiarity with security-related compliance frameworks, audit readiness, privacy considerations, data protection expectations, and customer security requirements.
• CPP, PSP, PCI, CISSP, PMP, or other relevant security, risk, resilience, or project management certification.
• Bachelor’s degree in security management, criminal justice, business, risk management, international relations, engineering, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.

Leadership Characteristics

• Strategic, structured, and decisive.
• Calm and credible under pressure.
• Able to translate complex risk into clear business decisions.
• Comfortable operating at both executive and site level.
• Highly collaborative across functions and geographies.
• Skilled at building trust with employees, executives, vendors, public agencies, and peer organizations.
• Metrics-driven and committed to continuous improvement.
• Pragmatic, risk-based, and business-enabling.
• Capable of building a program that is globally consistent, locally adaptable, and scalable.

Expected Base Pay Range (USD)

The successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location and market conditions. The expected base pay range for this role may be modified based on market conditions.

Additional Compensation and Benefit Elements 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

Any applicant who requires a reasonable accommodation during the selection process should contact Marvell HR Helpdesk at TAOps@marvell.com.

Interview Integrity 

To support fair and authentic hiring practices, candidates are not permitted to use AI tools (such as transcription apps, real-time answer generators like ChatGPT or Copilot, or automated note-taking bots) during interviews.

These tools must not be used to record, assist with, or enhance responses in any way. Our interviews are designed to evaluate your individual experience, thought process, and communication skills in real time. Use of AI tools without prior instruction from the interviewer will result in disqualification from the hiring process.

This position may require access to technology and/or software subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As such, applicants must be eligible to access export-controlled information as defined under applicable law. Marvell may be required to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce and/or the U.S. Department of State. Except for U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, or protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), all applicants may be subject to an export license review process prior to employment.