Technical Security Program Manager
Whatnot
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $190,000 per year
About the role
- Strengthen the integrity, consistency, and compliance of Whatnot’s global physical security program—including access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, and related systems—through standardized configurations, clear governance, and audit-ready controls.
- Own physical security infrastructure and vendors end-to-end, including vendor selection and onboarding, OKRs, budgets, schedules, installations, preventive maintenance, and ongoing system health across offices.
- Deliver reliable, scalable access control and identity workflows by administering Verkada access control, defining and enforcing role-based access standards, managing the employee badge lifecycle, and ensuring seamless integrations with employee identity systems.
- Lead the global rollout and adoption of security technology programs such as visitor management, travel security, and risk platforms by driving cross-functional delivery, partner readiness, and operational scalability.
- Oversee cameras and surveillance systems globally by defining and maintaining standards for placement, coverage, storage, retention, and compliance, and ensuring consistent deployment and maintenance.
- Drive security system integrations and special projects by partnering with IT, CISO, Finance Systems, and People Systems to improve resilience, monitoring, automation, and reporting across the physical security ecosystem.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in technical or physical security program management, or closely related security operations roles
- Proven experience deploying and managing enterprise-grade physical security systems across multiple-sites.
- Strong understanding of access control architecture, camera systems, and visitor management technologies.
- Demonstrated success managing vendors, installations, and system integrations in fast-paced environments.
- Technical fluency with APIs and SaaS integrations, including the ability to partner closely with IT and engineering to design and validate integrations.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and program management skills—comfortable translating between technical, operational, and business stakeholders.
- A hands-on, no-task-too-small mindset and willingness to jump in where needed (e.g., printing badges, troubleshooting hardware, validating camera coverage on-site, other Corporate Security responsibilities as needed) to ensure program success.
Benefits
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Work From Home Support
- Home office setup allowance
- Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
- Care benefits
- Monthly allowance for wellness
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- Parental Leave
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.
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Hard Skills & Tools
physical security program managementaccess control architecturecamera systemsvisitor management technologiesenterprise-grade physical security systemssystem integrationsAPIsSaaS integrationspreventive maintenancerole-based access standards
Soft Skills
cross-functional communicationprogram managementvendor managementproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilityattention to detailoperational scalabilitystakeholder engagementhands-on mindset