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Executive Protection Agent jobs are open across corporate security, private security firms, government contracting, and high-net-worth private clients, at every level from entry-level agent to lead and director, with specializations in close protection, threat assessment, and secure transportation. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Control Risks is looking for a Senior Executive Protection Analyst to support a major technology client within its Global Security Operations Center (GSOC). This role combines protective intelligence and executive protection monitoring with shift-level leadership responsibilities. The Senior Analyst will oversee the security and safety of the client’s global executive population, including C-Suite leaders during travel, while providing operational direction, quality control, incident leadership, and guidance to other analysts.
- Provide direct monitoring and protective intelligence support for the client’s executive population, including C-Suite executives based globally and traveling internationally.
- Serve as the senior point of contact during the assigned shift, providing direction to analysts and ensuring monitoring, reporting, and response activities are completed efficiently and in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Identify, assess, and communicate threats to executives and personnel using OSINT, social media monitoring, investigative platforms, and security intelligence tools.
- Develop and review executive-focused threat, travel, city, venue, and event risk assessments, and lead live monitoring for executive movements and high-profile events as required.
- Lead the real-time assessment of incidents affecting executives, coordinate the appropriate response with internal and external stakeholders, and escalate critical matters in a timely manner.
- Maintain continuity of operations through effective shift handovers, clear documentation, and the accurate transfer of executive protection and threat information.
- Proofread, vet, and quality-control intelligence reports, alerts, incident documentation, and other GSOC products before dissemination.
- Liaise with executive protection, corporate security, travel security, emergency management, human resources, and other relevant stakeholders on global risk events and incidents.
- Provide training, guidance, coaching, and operational support to analysts, including leading drills and reinforcing established procedures.
- Identify process gaps and operational risks, recommend improvements, and support the development and refinement of protective intelligence protocols, escalation procedures, and response plans.
- Participate in hiring processes, collaborate with Talent Acquisition, and ensure team alignment with client expectations.
- Manage team schedules, approve PTO, ensure timesheet compliance, and maintain service continuity.
- Perform the full responsibilities of an Executive Protection Analyst as needed to maintain coverage and service quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- Three or more years of experience in a GSOC, protective intelligence, executive protection, security operations, or a comparable corporate security environment; prior lead or supervisory experience is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience monitoring threats to executives, conducting travel or event risk assessments, and supporting executive protection operations.
- Proficiency in global risk event monitoring, OSINT and social media research, investigative platforms, incident management, and security monitoring and reporting tools.
- Ability to lead shift operations, prioritize competing requirements, provide clear direction, and make sound decisions during high-pressure or time-sensitive incidents.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief stakeholders at all levels and produce clear, accurate, and actionable intelligence products.
- Experience reviewing and quality-controlling analytical products, incident reports, and operational handovers.
- Ability to train, coach, and support analysts, including facilitating drills and reinforcing standard operating procedures.
- Strong judgment, discretion, professionalism, and the ability to handle sensitive executive and security information appropriately.
- Ability to work flexible hours, including day, evening, overnight, weekend, and holiday shifts, based on operational requirements.
Benefits
- Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarized in the full job offer.
- We operate a discretionary bonus scheme that incentivizes, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance.
- Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasize the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.
- Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarized in the full job offer.
- Medical Benefits, Prescription Benefits, FSA, Dental Benefits, Vision Benefits, Life and AD&D, Voluntary Life and AD&D, Disability Benefits, Voluntary Benefits, 401 (K) Retirement, Nationwide Pet Insurance, Employee Assistance Program.
- As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process.
The base salary range for this position is $80,000-89,000 per year. Exact compensation offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Control Risks is committed to a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in order to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.
Control Risks participates in the E-Verify program to confirm employment authorization of all newly hired employees. The E-Verify process is completed during new hire onboarding and completion of the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, at the start of employment. E-Verify is not used as a tool to pre-screen candidates. For more information on E-Verify, please visit www.uscis.gov.
Control Risks is looking for a Senior Executive Protection Analyst to support a major technology client within its Global Security Operations Center (GSOC). This role combines protective intelligence and executive protection monitoring with shift-level leadership responsibilities. The Senior Analyst will oversee the security and safety of the client’s global executive population, including C-Suite leaders during travel, while providing operational direction, quality control, incident leadership, and guidance to other analysts.
- Provide direct monitoring and protective intelligence support for the client’s executive population, including C-Suite executives based globally and traveling internationally.
- Serve as the senior point of contact during the assigned shift, providing direction to analysts and ensuring monitoring, reporting, and response activities are completed efficiently and in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Identify, assess, and communicate threats to executives and personnel using OSINT, social media monitoring, investigative platforms, and security intelligence tools.
- Develop and review executive-focused threat, travel, city, venue, and event risk assessments, and lead live monitoring for executive movements and high-profile events as required.
- Lead the real-time assessment of incidents affecting executives, coordinate the appropriate response with internal and external stakeholders, and escalate critical matters in a timely manner.
- Maintain continuity of operations through effective shift handovers, clear documentation, and the accurate transfer of executive protection and threat information.
- Proofread, vet, and quality-control intelligence reports, alerts, incident documentation, and other GSOC products before dissemination.
- Liaise with executive protection, corporate security, travel security, emergency management, human resources, and other relevant stakeholders on global risk events and incidents.
- Provide training, guidance, coaching, and operational support to analysts, including leading drills and reinforcing established procedures.
- Identify process gaps and operational risks, recommend improvements, and support the development and refinement of protective intelligence protocols, escalation procedures, and response plans.
- Participate in hiring processes, collaborate with Talent Acquisition, and ensure team alignment with client expectations.
- Manage team schedules, approve PTO, ensure timesheet compliance, and maintain service continuity.
- Perform the full responsibilities of an Executive Protection Analyst as needed to maintain coverage and service quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- Three or more years of experience in a GSOC, protective intelligence, executive protection, security operations, or a comparable corporate security environment; prior lead or supervisory experience is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience monitoring threats to executives, conducting travel or event risk assessments, and supporting executive protection operations.
- Proficiency in global risk event monitoring, OSINT and social media research, investigative platforms, incident management, and security monitoring and reporting tools.
- Ability to lead shift operations, prioritize competing requirements, provide clear direction, and make sound decisions during high-pressure or time-sensitive incidents.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief stakeholders at all levels and produce clear, accurate, and actionable intelligence products.
- Experience reviewing and quality-controlling analytical products, incident reports, and operational handovers.
- Ability to train, coach, and support analysts, including facilitating drills and reinforcing standard operating procedures.
- Strong judgment, discretion, professionalism, and the ability to handle sensitive executive and security information appropriately.
- Ability to work flexible hours, including day, evening, overnight, weekend, and holiday shifts, based on operational requirements.
Benefits
- Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarized in the full job offer.
- We operate a discretionary bonus scheme that incentivizes, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance.
- Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasize the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.
- Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarized in the full job offer.
- Medical Benefits, Prescription Benefits, FSA, Dental Benefits, Vision Benefits, Life and AD&D, Voluntary Life and AD&D, Disability Benefits, Voluntary Benefits, 401 (K) Retirement, Nationwide Pet Insurance, Employee Assistance Program.
- As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process.
The base salary range for this position is $80,000-89,000 per year. Exact compensation offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Control Risks is committed to a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in order to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.
Control Risks participates in the E-Verify program to confirm employment authorization of all newly hired employees. The E-Verify process is completed during new hire onboarding and completion of the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, at the start of employment. E-Verify is not used as a tool to pre-screen candidates. For more information on E-Verify, please visit www.uscis.gov.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in executive protection agent jobs.
- Five or more years of military, law enforcement, or prior executive protection experience
- Valid state security guard license or armed security permit where required
- Current CPR, AED, and first aid certification from an accredited provider
- Demonstrated advance work skills including route planning and venue security surveys
- Ability to pass a comprehensive background check and drug screening
- Valid driver's license with a clean record and defensive or evasive driving training
Tips for Your Executive Protection Agent Job Search
Tailor your resume to threat environments
Generic security resumes don't land EP roles. Highlight the specific threat environments you've worked in, such as high-profile events, international travel details, or executive home security, and name the principal types you've protected without violating confidentiality.
List every relevant certification clearly
Employers scan for CPR, first aid, firearms qualifications, defensive driving, and state-specific guard licenses before reading anything else. Put certifications in a dedicated section near the top of your resume so they're found in the first ten seconds.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists executive protection agent openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target job titles beyond the obvious
Many EP openings are posted as Close Protection Officer, Personal Security Detail, Executive Security Specialist, or Corporate Security Agent. Search all these variants so you don't miss roles that match your skills because a company used different language.
Prepare for scenario-based interview questions
EP interviews routinely test your advance work process, how you handle a principal who refuses a protective protocol, and what you do when a threat materializes in a crowd. Walk through your decision-making step by step, not just the outcome.
Negotiate total compensation, not just base pay
EP roles often include per diem, travel allowances, vehicle use, lodging on assignment, and overtime structures that vary widely. Clarify all of these before accepting an offer, since they can change the real value of a package significantly.
Executive Protection Agent Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most executive protection agents?
The most active employers for executive protection agents right now are Gavin de Becker & Associates, Target, and Apple, and the most openings are in California, Florida, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Corporate security departments and private security contractors tend to post the highest volume of roles.
How many executive protection agent jobs are remote?
About 83% of executive protection agent openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting that most EP work requires physical presence with the principal. Roles with remote flexibility tend to be in threat intelligence analysis, security consulting, and operations coordination rather than active close protection assignments.
How do you become an executive protection agent?
Most executive protection agents start with a background in law enforcement, the military, or a government protective service. From there, completing a recognized EP training program that covers advance work, defensive driving, emergency medical response, and protective formations is the standard path. Getting licensed in your state, earning CPR and first aid certifications, and building experience on lower-profile details before pursuing high-risk or celebrity clients is how most agents develop a credible career.
Can you get hired as an executive protection agent with little experience?
Entry points exist, but they require demonstrating transferable skills and discipline. Candidates without direct EP experience who have served in the military, worked in law enforcement, or competed in relevant martial arts often get considered for junior agent or security specialist roles. Completing a formal EP training course before applying, even without field hours, signals seriousness to employers who might otherwise pass on a newer candidate.
What does the executive protection agent interview process look like?
Most EP interviews include an initial screening call focused on background and credentials, followed by an in-person or video interview with scenario-based questions about protective protocols and threat response. Many employers also conduct a physical fitness assessment, a firearms qualification if the role is armed, and reference checks with former supervisors or clients. Final candidates for senior roles often complete a practical exercise simulating an advance survey or close protection scenario.
Where can I find and apply to executive protection agent jobs?
You can find and apply to executive protection agent jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level and specialization, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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