Principal Security Specialist - Investigations

Principal Security Specialist – Investigations – 647

Description

We are seeking a Principal Security Specialist – Investigations for our Broomfield, CO location. The Principal, Security Manager‑Investigations is responsible for developing and executing programs around corporate investigations, crisis management, global intelligence and liaison, training, and compliance. This role will own the global strategy and implementation, aligning these programs with enterprise risk, legal, compliance and executive leadership priorities. This also includes annual budget projections in accordance with the overall security strategy as well as vendor selection and management for certain projects.

The Principal Security Manager will collaborate closely with other security teams to integrate intelligence initiatives and support cyber, insider risk and intellectual property protection programs ensuring a unified approach to protecting personnel, assets, and information. Additionally, the position drives innovation in government and law‑enforcement partnerships and leads global training programs to strengthen organizational resilience against emerging threats.

• Develop strategic plan for global investigations, accounting for different countries’ employment law and requirements. Includes developing policy and processes where needed.
• Set investigative standards (methodology, tools, evidence handling) for all global regions and ensure uniform execution.
• Oversee high‑risk and high‑visibility investigations with legal, reputational, or regulatory impact as well as standard corporate and cyber security investigations.
• Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory standards during investigative processes.
• Review and assess all security incident reports for patterns and emerging risks.
• Prepare analytical reports and recommend preventive measures.

• Serve as the enterprise‑wide crisis advisor, ensuring consistency across regions, business units and executive management.
• Actively monitor global intelligence services for emerging threats.
• Serve as security lead during crisis events, ensuring rapid and effective response.
• Lead cross‑functional crisis steering groups that include HR, legal, communications and operations.
• Drive enterprise lessons‑learned programs ensuring systemic improvements after any crisis event.

• Create a global intelligence program that will inform intellectual property and employee protection strategies.
• Develop global strategies to identify and mitigate external threats and vulnerabilities to the company. This includes prioritization of threat factors, reporting standards and dissemination protocols.
• Develop and manage high‑level relationships with federal agencies, corporate security consortia and other industry partnerships.
• Develop and implement local partnerships with community and law enforcement outreach programs, educating local security team members on how to manage these relationships.
• Implement corporate intelligence strategy and training globally in coordination with all security team members and other internal teams.

• Design, implement and run a robust SETA (Security Education, Training & Awareness) program to build a security‑conscious culture across the organization.
• Establish metrics to measure training effectiveness to keep the training relevant and useful for employees, while also tracking the training to ensure compliance.
• Deliver basic security training and refresher courses for employees. This includes cyber and physical security focused training.
• Provide specific training for targeted individuals and high‑risk roles such as executive management, but also vulnerable functions such as finance.
• Conduct all‑employee sessions on active threat response, situational awareness and emergency preparedness.
• Organize guest speaker events and lunch‑and‑learn sessions to promote security awareness.

• Own the global security risk governance framework including program audits, maturity assessments and compliance reporting.
• Align security policies with global and country‑specific regulatory frameworks such as…