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Executive Protection Specialist jobs are open across corporate security, government contracting, private security firms, and entertainment, from entry-level agent to senior principal protector, with specializations in advance work, threat assessment, and dignitary protection. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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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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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Electronics & Hardware
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in executive protection specialist jobs.
- Prior military, law enforcement, or government security agency experience strongly preferred
- Current state armed or unarmed security guard license where required by jurisdiction
- CPR, First Aid, and AED certification from an accredited provider
- Valid driver's license with a clean record and executive driving course completion
- Ability to pass a comprehensive background investigation including criminal and financial history
- Proficiency in advance work, route planning, and close-quarters protection protocols
Tips for Your Executive Protection Specialist Job Search
Tailor your resume to each principal type
Corporate EP roles prioritize low-profile presence and business travel logistics, while celebrity or executive protection roles emphasize discretion and motorcade experience. Reframe your bullet points to match the principal type listed in each job posting before you apply.
List every relevant certification clearly
Employers scan for CPR, First Aid, CEPPS, LEOSA eligibility, and state-specific guard licensing before reading further. Put certifications in a dedicated section near the top of your resume so they're visible immediately, not buried in a skills list.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists executive protection specialist openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings that name the principal environment
Job descriptions that specify residential, travel-heavy, or international protection give you a sharper signal about fit than generic security postings. Focus your applications on listings where your past operating environment matches the one described.
Prepare a threat-assessment scenario for interviews
Many EP interviews include a live advance scenario or verbal threat-assessment exercise. Walk in ready to narrate how you'd assess a venue, identify choke points, and brief the principal, using the specific language the employer used in their job posting.
Follow up with a security-specific point of reference
After an interview, your follow-up note should reference one specific operational detail you discussed, not a generic thank-you. It signals situational awareness and professionalism, which are exactly the qualities EP employers evaluate during the entire hiring process.
Executive Protection Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most executive protection specialists?
The most active employers for executive protection specialists right now are Gavin de Becker & Associates, Control Risks, and Surefox North America, 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 openings.
How many executive protection specialist jobs are remote?
About 83% of executive protection specialist openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the inherently physical nature of personal protection work. The sub-areas most likely to offer any remote component are threat intelligence analysis, itinerary planning, and advance coordination roles that support field EP teams.
How do you become an executive protection specialist?
Start by building a foundation in military service, law enforcement, or private security, as most employers require hands-on physical security experience. Complete a recognized EP training program covering advance work, emergency medical response, and protective driving. Obtain your state security license, stack relevant certifications, and pursue entry-level protective agent roles to build operational hours before moving into specialist positions.
How do you get hired as an executive protection specialist with little or no experience?
Start with a state security guard license and work uniformed or event security shifts to build documented hours in a protective environment. EP-specific academies offer intensive civilian training that hiring managers recognize. Volunteering for advance or logistics support on security details can get your foot in the door, and a background in emergency medical services or competitive martial arts signals relevant physical discipline to employers.
What does the executive protection specialist interview process look like?
Most EP hiring processes include an initial screening call, an in-person or video interview focused on past protective assignments and decision-making under pressure, and a practical assessment such as a scenario-based advance exercise or defensive driving evaluation. Background investigations, polygraph screening, and medical or fitness testing are common final steps, particularly for corporate and government-contracted roles.
Where can I find and apply to executive protection specialist jobs?
You can find and apply to executive protection specialist jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the available roles to find positions that match your experience level and principal environment, then apply directly to each listing that fits your background.
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