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Executive protection agent roles sit at the intersection of law enforcement backgrounds and corporate security, making visa sponsorship a narrow but real path. Most sponsors are private security firms or corporations filing H-1B visa or TN visa petitions. Your law enforcement credentials, degree equivalency, and clearance documentation are the deciding factors.
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As an Executive Protection Agent, you will join the Executive Protection Field Operations Group, a team of motivated and highly skilled professionals who provide close protection and estate security for the CEO's immediate family, the Executive Chairman, and other Tanium Executives as needed. Our ideal candidate will be a well-trained and experienced security professional that is proactive, motivated, and customer service oriented. It is imperative that agents taking this role practice consistent good judgement and maintain the trust of their leadership and those they protect.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Incorporate Tanium Mission and Values into all decisions and actions
- Responsible for making operational decisions that enhance safety for the principals
- Support the Global Security mission, Executive Protection details, and Tanium Executives if needed
- Demonstrate effective communication with the principals, visitors, and other team members
- Be accountable for their decisions, actions, and communications
- Responsible for safeguarding the CEO, his family, and their private property located at the residence
- Promote and establish effective working relationships with principals, staff, and team members
- Support EPFOG new hire and EPPAG cross-training
- Collaborate on the development of EPFOG standard operating procedures
- Maintain and input all pertinent info all security logs
- Effectively perform transports for CEO's family
- Ensuring EPFOG vehicles are maintained
- Receive, document, and communicate all deliveries
- Serve as the primary point of contact in place of EPFOG Team Lead, when needed
- Ready and able upon request to support other teams within the Global Security mission to help safeguard Tanium's people, assets, and reputation
- Responsible for providing transportation for the CEO's family upon request
- Agents must always conduct themselves with Tanium's best interests
- Other duties as assigned by Head of Executive Protection and Operations
- Travel in support of the EPPAG
- Monitor, Track, and assist with all movements of principals
- Occasionally operate and assist in maintaining CEO boat
- Occasionally perform duties in a corporate office environment
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- BA/BS and/or equivalent work experience preferred
- Industry Experience: Government, Military, Law Enforcement, and/or 5+ years in a security role required
- Specialty training or experience in Executive Protection and Estate Security required
- Industry/Discipline Specific Credentials:
- CPR/First Aid/AED required
- Valid Driver's License
- TX CPL required
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Successful completion of a recognized Executive Protection Course preferred
- Successful completion of a recognized Tactical/Evasive Driving Course preferred
- Emergency Medical Technician (BLS (Basic Life Support)) preferred
- Demonstrated dependability, positive attitude, and good attendance
- Authorized to work in the United States
- Water Safety/Open water rescue/lifeguard training to be completed within 90 days of hire
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Ability to adapt and overcome technical and physical obstacles as they arise.
- Demonstrates initiative and motivation
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Team player
- Person of high ethics and integrity
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
- Positive, can-do attitude is necessary
TANIUM COMPETENCIES
- Demonstrates initiative and motivation
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Team player
- Person of high ethics and integrity
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment
WORK REQUIREMENTS
- Travel Requirements: 10%
- Mental Abilities
- Analytical abilities: ability to analyze problem situations in depth; ability to show a probing mind.
- Number facility: the individual must be able to perform basic mathematical calculations at a minimum.
- Precision to detail: it is necessary that the individual be precise, detail-oriented, and exact.
- Flexibility: the ability to juggle several projects simultaneously, to cope successfully with diversity and complexity, to integrate seemingly unrelated data, and to reduce complex notions into relatively simple terms.
- Written and oral communication skills: ability to write memos, letters, and reports in clear, concise fashion with appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage; ability to communicate effectively with superiors, peers, subordinates, and others on a one-on-one basis, using appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage; includes clarity, organization of thought, and expressiveness are all part of this dimension.
- Management skills: ability to achieve results through subordinates; ability to successfully recruit, conduct selection interviews, place people, give clear direction, train, develop people for promotion, build cohesive and effective teams, monitor performance thoroughly, give constructive and ongoing performance feedback, conduct annual performance appraisals
- Physical & Mental Abilities and Demands
- Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for Sedentary Work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for Light Work.
- Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
- Heavy work: Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
- Very heavy work: Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
- Balancing: maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
- Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
- Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
- Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
- Use of Fingers/Hands: Typing, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detail or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing: Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machine parts.
- Repetitive motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- Vision: The incumbent is required to distinguish between true colors, perceive depth, and partial field of vision is required at a minimum for the position.
- Work Environment
- The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
- The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions: NO effective protection from weather.
- The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.
- The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
- The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
ABOUT TANIUM
Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.
The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.
ON A MISSION. TOGETHER.
At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.
As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it's imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.
Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.
TAKING CARE OF OUR TEAM MEMBERS
Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.
Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the "Know Your Rights" poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.
Please be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money.
This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.
For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.
INTRODUCTION
As an Executive Protection Agent, you will join the Executive Protection Field Operations Group, a team of motivated and highly skilled professionals who provide close protection and estate security for the CEO's immediate family, the Executive Chairman, and other Tanium Executives as needed. Our ideal candidate will be a well-trained and experienced security professional that is proactive, motivated, and customer service oriented. It is imperative that agents taking this role practice consistent good judgement and maintain the trust of their leadership and those they protect.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Incorporate Tanium Mission and Values into all decisions and actions
- Responsible for making operational decisions that enhance safety for the principals
- Support the Global Security mission, Executive Protection details, and Tanium Executives if needed
- Demonstrate effective communication with the principals, visitors, and other team members
- Be accountable for their decisions, actions, and communications
- Responsible for safeguarding the CEO, his family, and their private property located at the residence
- Promote and establish effective working relationships with principals, staff, and team members
- Support EPFOG new hire and EPPAG cross-training
- Collaborate on the development of EPFOG standard operating procedures
- Maintain and input all pertinent info all security logs
- Effectively perform transports for CEO's family
- Ensuring EPFOG vehicles are maintained
- Receive, document, and communicate all deliveries
- Serve as the primary point of contact in place of EPFOG Team Lead, when needed
- Ready and able upon request to support other teams within the Global Security mission to help safeguard Tanium's people, assets, and reputation
- Responsible for providing transportation for the CEO's family upon request
- Agents must always conduct themselves with Tanium's best interests
- Other duties as assigned by Head of Executive Protection and Operations
- Travel in support of the EPPAG
- Monitor, Track, and assist with all movements of principals
- Occasionally operate and assist in maintaining CEO boat
- Occasionally perform duties in a corporate office environment
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- BA/BS and/or equivalent work experience preferred
- Industry Experience: Government, Military, Law Enforcement, and/or 5+ years in a security role required
- Specialty training or experience in Executive Protection and Estate Security required
- Industry/Discipline Specific Credentials:
- CPR/First Aid/AED required
- Valid Driver's License
- TX CPL required
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Successful completion of a recognized Executive Protection Course preferred
- Successful completion of a recognized Tactical/Evasive Driving Course preferred
- Emergency Medical Technician (BLS (Basic Life Support)) preferred
- Demonstrated dependability, positive attitude, and good attendance
- Authorized to work in the United States
- Water Safety/Open water rescue/lifeguard training to be completed within 90 days of hire
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Ability to adapt and overcome technical and physical obstacles as they arise.
- Demonstrates initiative and motivation
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Team player
- Person of high ethics and integrity
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
- Positive, can-do attitude is necessary
TANIUM COMPETENCIES
- Demonstrates initiative and motivation
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Team player
- Person of high ethics and integrity
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment
WORK REQUIREMENTS
- Travel Requirements: 10%
- Mental Abilities
- Analytical abilities: ability to analyze problem situations in depth; ability to show a probing mind.
- Number facility: the individual must be able to perform basic mathematical calculations at a minimum.
- Precision to detail: it is necessary that the individual be precise, detail-oriented, and exact.
- Flexibility: the ability to juggle several projects simultaneously, to cope successfully with diversity and complexity, to integrate seemingly unrelated data, and to reduce complex notions into relatively simple terms.
- Written and oral communication skills: ability to write memos, letters, and reports in clear, concise fashion with appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage; ability to communicate effectively with superiors, peers, subordinates, and others on a one-on-one basis, using appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage; includes clarity, organization of thought, and expressiveness are all part of this dimension.
- Management skills: ability to achieve results through subordinates; ability to successfully recruit, conduct selection interviews, place people, give clear direction, train, develop people for promotion, build cohesive and effective teams, monitor performance thoroughly, give constructive and ongoing performance feedback, conduct annual performance appraisals
- Physical & Mental Abilities and Demands
- Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for Sedentary Work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for Light Work.
- Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
- Heavy work: Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
- Very heavy work: Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
- Balancing: maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
- Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
- Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
- Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
- Use of Fingers/Hands: Typing, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detail or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing: Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machine parts.
- Repetitive motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- Vision: The incumbent is required to distinguish between true colors, perceive depth, and partial field of vision is required at a minimum for the position.
- Work Environment
- The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
- The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions: NO effective protection from weather.
- The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.
- The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
- The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
ABOUT TANIUM
Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.
The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.
ON A MISSION. TOGETHER.
At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.
As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it's imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.
Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.
TAKING CARE OF OUR TEAM MEMBERS
Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.
Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the "Know Your Rights" poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.
Please be aware of job offers coming from people claiming to be Tanium employees. Tanium employees will only use @tanium.com email addresses to communicate with you, will have video interviews with you, and will never ask you for money.
This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.
For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Executive Protection Agent Jobs
Document your law enforcement credentials precisely
Translate every certification, POST certificate, and tactical training record into U.S.-equivalent terms before applying. Consular officers and USCIS adjudicators need to map your credentials to the specialty occupation standard, so vague summaries will slow you down.
Verify your degree qualifies as specialty occupation
Executive protection sits in a gray zone for specialty occupation status. Cross-reference your criminal justice, security management, or related degree against the O*NET profile to confirm the role-degree connection is defensible before any employer files a petition.
Target corporate security departments over agencies
In-house security teams at financial institutions, tech firms, and multinational corporations are more likely to sponsor than staffing agencies. These employers have dedicated HR and legal infrastructure to handle LCA filings and I-129 petitions without treating sponsorship as a barrier.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsoring employers
Filter your job search to companies with confirmed LCA filing history in protective services and security management. Migrate Mate surfaces employers who have already filed for roles in this category, cutting out the guesswork of cold-applying to companies that won't sponsor.
Ask employers about armed-role licensing before the offer
Many executive protection roles require state-issued armed security or firearms permits, which are issued by state authorities, not USCIS. Confirm with the employer which states you'd work in and whether they'll support your license applications while your visa petition is pending.
Confirm the LCA wage level matches your experience tier
Employers file the LCA with a prevailing wage level tied to your experience. If you have 10-plus years of protective detail work, insist the employer files at Level III or IV. Use the OFLC Wage Search to verify the correct prevailing wage for your work location before signing any offer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do executive protection agent jobs qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship?
They can, but it's not straightforward. USCIS must classify the role as a specialty occupation, meaning it normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field like criminal justice, security management, or a related discipline. Employers who frame the role as requiring specialized academic training rather than general experience have stronger petitions, so the job description language matters significantly.
Is a bachelor's degree required, or can extensive experience substitute?
For H-1B purposes, a degree is required, though three years of specialized experience can substitute for one year of education under USCIS equivalency rules. For executive protection specifically, a combination of a two-year degree plus substantial documented protective detail or law enforcement experience may satisfy the equivalent-degree standard, but the employer's attorney will need to build that argument explicitly in the petition.
Which visa types are realistic for foreign-national executive protection professionals?
H-1B is the most common path if the employer can establish specialty occupation. TN visas apply only to Canadian and Mexican nationals, and security professionals are not on the USMCA profession list, so TN is not available for this role. J-1 visa trainee status could theoretically apply in limited circumstances with a designated sponsor organization, but it's rarely used for protective services work.
How do I find employers who have actually sponsored this role before?
Start your search on Migrate Mate, which lists employers with verified LCA filing history in security and protective services. This tells you which companies have already navigated the sponsorship process for similar roles, so you're applying to employers who have demonstrated willingness to sponsor rather than those who may decline once you raise the question.
Will holding a foreign security clearance or law enforcement background help my petition?
It strengthens your credentials profile but doesn't directly influence USCIS adjudication of the specialty occupation question. What matters to USCIS is the degree-to-role connection, not clearance history. That said, foreign law enforcement experience documented in detail supports any equivalency argument and signals to U.S. employers that your background meets the operational standards they'd require for high-risk protective assignments.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Executive Protection Agent jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.