Director of Security and Safety

**ABOUT OPORTUN**- Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is an A.I.powered digital banking platform that seeks to make financial health effortless for anyone. Driven by a mission to provide inclusive and affordable financial services, Oportun helps its nearly 1.5 million hardworking members meet their daily borrowing, savings, banking, and investing needs. Since inception, Oportun has provided more than $12 billion in responsible and affordable credit, saved its members more than $2 billion in interest and fees, and automatically helped members set aside more than $7.2 billion for rainy days and other needs. In recognition of its responsibly designed products, Oportun has been certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) since 2009.With headquarters in California and a remote-first corporate culture, our 3,000+ team members work in Oportun locations and remotely throughout the United States, Mexico, and India. Our global operations include our Mexico contact centers and administrative offices, our India technology development center, and our US corporate, technology, and retail operations.We are proud to have been named a "Top Workplace" by the Bay Area News Group for three consecutive years, one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in the World for 2020 and recognized as one of TIME Magazine's 2018 Genius Companies Reinventing the Future.**WORKING AT OPORTUN**- Working at Oportun means enjoying a differentiated experience of being part of a team that fosters a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where we all feel a sense of belonging and are encouraged to share our perspectives. This inclusive culture is directly connected to our organization's performance and ability to fulfill our mission of delivering affordable credit to those left out of the financial mainstream. We celebrate and nurture our inclusive culture through our employee resource groups and our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Council.**Responsibilities**The Director will develop and maintains relationships with local, state and federal law enforcement and protective agencies to ensure real-time communication of security related information from these entities to corporate management and staff.The Director will manage budget and resources assigned to their geographies and programs. They will also create and deliver business justifications for additional resource needs to better protect Oportun.- Implements a metrics program to provide necessary information to executive leadership around risk management activities related to the corporate security and safety programs.- Communicates with local, state and federal law enforcement officials as needed. - Provides leadership, directly or through influence, to meet all objectives of the corporate security program and to address unplanned events.- Participates in investigations of workplace security incidents, employee fraud, customer fraud, possible AML and other incidents as directed, providing timely documentation.- Collaborates with Human Resources, Legal and Risk Management teams to develop and oversee a sound workplace violence recognition and response program.- Participates in and leads the regional threat management team.- Develops an Executive Protection Program to include the capacity to perform protective intelligence, evaluate and report on evolving risks, design and recommend mitigation strategies and implement countermeasures.- Interfaces with examiners from regulatory agencies, internal and external auditors to support their evaluations.- Ability to be on-call 24 hours per day, 7 days per week and to travel to US and Mexican operations approximately 30% of the time.- Performs other essential functions as assigned by management.**Qualifications**- Minimum of 10 years of related experience and 4+ years management experience.- English fluency required.- College degree or equivalent experience.- Previous experience as a physical security and corporate safety director or manager and/or law enforcement; this position requires independent judgment, integrity, and discretion, as well the ability to identify, analyze and resolve security-related matters.- Effective oral and written communication, including the ability to make presentations to senior level executives and prepare written policies and reports- Proven ability to manage security vendors. - Comprehensive knowledge of current security and emergency response techniques, issues, equipment, procedures and security threats.- Experience with management of risks and controls for security and facility related processes. - Experience analyzing potential threat related information and communicating potential vulnerabilities to management.- Focused personality, with a demonstrated ability to take initiative, successfully handle and prioritize multiple competing assignments and effectively manage deadlines.- Professional, articulate, and able to use good independent judgment and discre