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Security Operations Manager roles qualify for H-1B visa and O-1 visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information systems, or a related field. Employers in finance, defense contracting, healthcare, and tech sponsor these roles regularly, particularly for candidates managing SOC teams or enterprise security programs. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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At Axon, we're on a mission to Protect Life. We're explorers, pursuing society's most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.
Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you'll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.
Your Impact
Axon's Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) is the central operational hub for protecting our people, facilities, executives, operations, and critical business interests around the world. We are seeking an experienced, forward-thinking Sr. Manager to lead the continued evolution of this capability. You will inherit a capable GSOC with a strong operational foundation and take it forward, defining what the function becomes next across people, technology, process, analytics, and data.
You will pair strong real-time operational leadership with a track record of materially advancing a GSOC, command center, emergency operations center, or comparable 24/7 environment. You will work alongside Global Threat Intelligence and in close partnership with Information Security, Executive Protection, and other risk functions to deliver a converged, intelligence-informed security operation.
Location: Onsite out of our Scottsdale Headquarters
Reports to: Director, Global Security
Set the Vision
- Establish and execute a multi-year roadmap for the GSOC across people, technology, process, analytics, and data.
- Assess the current operating model, identify gaps and opportunities, and set clear modernization priorities.
- Translate enterprise risk, business growth, and emerging threats into scalable GSOC capabilities.
- Define measurable goals, milestones, and performance indicators that demonstrate operational maturity and business value.
- Evaluate industry best practices and emerging technologies to keep the GSOC modern and highly capable.
Lead the GSOC
- Provide strategic and operational leadership for the 24/7/365 GSOC, ensuring consistent, high-quality monitoring, incident management, communications, escalation, and response.
- Maintain clear standards for shift operations, pass-downs, escalation protocols, documentation, and incident reporting.
- Ensure personnel maintain situational awareness across Axon's global footprint and deliver timely, actionable information to stakeholders.
- Establish decision rights and escalation thresholds for routine and critical events, with appropriate leadership coverage across all shifts and time zones.
- Develop and maintain policies, playbooks, and standard operating procedures.
Transform Technology and Process
- Lead continuous improvement of the operating model, simplifying, automating, and integrating existing capabilities.
- Optimize physical security, mass notification, incident management, communications, access control, video, and related GSOC technologies, and drive integration between them to improve situational awareness and response speed.
- Develop processes that turn alerts and information into validated, actionable information, escalated to Threat Intelligence for analysis where warranted.
- Build metrics, dashboards, and reporting that show GSOC performance, risk trends, response effectiveness, and business value.
- Apply automation, AI, and analytics where they improve outcomes, keeping technology investments aligned to operational requirements rather than letting technology define the operating model.
- Build scalable processes that support Axon's continued domestic and international growth.
Lead Through Incidents and Crisis
- Serve as a senior operational leader during significant security incidents, emergencies, and crisis events, ensuring incidents are rapidly identified, validated, escalated, communicated, and managed.
- Coordinate with Global Security leadership and cross-functional partners during major events.
- Support enterprise crisis management, emergency response, business continuity, executive protection, workplace violence prevention, and travel risk programs.
- Develop and run exercises, drills, and simulations, and convert lessons learned into measurable improvements.
Integrate Intelligence, Cyber, and Risk Functions
- Partner with the Global Threat Intelligence to ensure GSOC alerts and observations feed intelligence analysis, and that finished intelligence drives GSOC posture, prioritization, and response.
- Establish joint workflows with Information Security (SOC/CSIRT) for incidents that span physical and cyber domains.
- Build shared escalation criteria, handoff protocols, and a common incident taxonomy across the GSOC in partnership with Threat Intelligence, Information Security, Executive Protection, and Business Continuity.
- Integrate data and tooling where possible (alert feeds, case management, dashboards) to create a shared operating picture across physical and cyber risk.
- Build strong partnerships with Legal, People Operations, Facilities, Communications, and business leaders, and with external law enforcement, emergency services, vendors, and industry peers as appropriate.
Build and Develop the Team
- Lead, coach, and develop GSOC leaders and team members in a 24/7 environment, with clear performance expectations, accountability, and career pathways.
- Build a culture of professionalism, ownership, teamwork, and exceptional service, so team members understand why their work matters to the business.
- Develop succession plans and set training standards that prepare the team for routine and critical events.
- Anticipate future skill requirements and evolve recruiting, onboarding, and development accordingly.
- Represent the GSOC and Global Security professionally with senior executives and external stakeholders.
What You Bring
- Significant and progressive experience in corporate security, global security operations, emergency operations or a comparable operational environment.
- Demonstrated leadership management of a 24/7/365 GSOC, command center, emergency operations center, or similar mission-critical operation.
- Proven record of transforming or materially advancing a GSOC or comparable operation across people, technology, process, and capability, including developing and executing a strategic roadmap.
- Strong knowledge of incident management, crisis response, emergency communications, physical security operations, and security technology, with working knowledge of intelligence and its relationship to operations.
- Experience implementing or integrating security technology platforms to improve operational outcomes.
- Ability to evaluate complex environments, identify capability gaps, set priorities, and execute meaningful change.
- Strong people leadership, with success developing teams and future leaders.
- Ability to develop metrics, analyze trends, and communicate performance and risk to senior leadership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including under high pressure; sound judgment and discretion.
- Ability to build cross-functional relationships and influence without relying solely on formal authority.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
Nice to Have
- Experience leading the transformation or modernization of a global or enterprise-scale GSOC.
- Experience building converged or cross-domain operating relationships between physical security, intelligence, and cyber/information security teams.
- Experience supporting a rapidly growing global organization.
- Experience with threat monitoring, travel risk, executive protection, crisis management, or business continuity.
- Experience with integrated physical security platforms (video management, access control, mass notification, incident management, communications).
- Experience using analytics, automation, or AI in a security operations environment.
- Certifications such as CPP, PSP, CBCP, CEM, or other relevant security, emergency management, intelligence, or leadership credentials.
- Experience presenting security risks, operational performance, and strategic recommendations to executives.
Benefits that Benefit You
- Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Paid parental leave for all
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Fitness Programs
- Emotional & Mental Wellness support
- Learning & Development programs
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- And yes, we have snacks in our offices
Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.
Don't meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.
Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you're excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Important Notes
The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.
Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.
We collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access, deletion, or exercise other CCPA rights at axongreenhousesupport@axon.com or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more information, please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.
Axon's mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon's impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.
We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We're committed to hiring the best talent — regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances — and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email recruitingops@axon.com. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.
Phishing alert: Axon will never ask you to pay for any part of the hiring process, including training, equipment, or background checks. We do not make job offers via text message, WhatsApp, or instant messaging platforms without a formal interview process. All legitimate job openings are listed on our official careers page at https://www.axon.com/careers. If you receive a suspicious offer or outreach from an email address that is not @axon.com, or if you are asked for sensitive personal information (bank details, Social Security Number) prematurely, please ignore the message and report it to recruitingops@axon.com.
Join Axon and be a Force for Good.
At Axon, we're on a mission to Protect Life. We're explorers, pursuing society's most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.
Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you'll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.
Your Impact
Axon's Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) is the central operational hub for protecting our people, facilities, executives, operations, and critical business interests around the world. We are seeking an experienced, forward-thinking Sr. Manager to lead the continued evolution of this capability. You will inherit a capable GSOC with a strong operational foundation and take it forward, defining what the function becomes next across people, technology, process, analytics, and data.
You will pair strong real-time operational leadership with a track record of materially advancing a GSOC, command center, emergency operations center, or comparable 24/7 environment. You will work alongside Global Threat Intelligence and in close partnership with Information Security, Executive Protection, and other risk functions to deliver a converged, intelligence-informed security operation.
Location: Onsite out of our Scottsdale Headquarters
Reports to: Director, Global Security
Set the Vision
- Establish and execute a multi-year roadmap for the GSOC across people, technology, process, analytics, and data.
- Assess the current operating model, identify gaps and opportunities, and set clear modernization priorities.
- Translate enterprise risk, business growth, and emerging threats into scalable GSOC capabilities.
- Define measurable goals, milestones, and performance indicators that demonstrate operational maturity and business value.
- Evaluate industry best practices and emerging technologies to keep the GSOC modern and highly capable.
Lead the GSOC
- Provide strategic and operational leadership for the 24/7/365 GSOC, ensuring consistent, high-quality monitoring, incident management, communications, escalation, and response.
- Maintain clear standards for shift operations, pass-downs, escalation protocols, documentation, and incident reporting.
- Ensure personnel maintain situational awareness across Axon's global footprint and deliver timely, actionable information to stakeholders.
- Establish decision rights and escalation thresholds for routine and critical events, with appropriate leadership coverage across all shifts and time zones.
- Develop and maintain policies, playbooks, and standard operating procedures.
Transform Technology and Process
- Lead continuous improvement of the operating model, simplifying, automating, and integrating existing capabilities.
- Optimize physical security, mass notification, incident management, communications, access control, video, and related GSOC technologies, and drive integration between them to improve situational awareness and response speed.
- Develop processes that turn alerts and information into validated, actionable information, escalated to Threat Intelligence for analysis where warranted.
- Build metrics, dashboards, and reporting that show GSOC performance, risk trends, response effectiveness, and business value.
- Apply automation, AI, and analytics where they improve outcomes, keeping technology investments aligned to operational requirements rather than letting technology define the operating model.
- Build scalable processes that support Axon's continued domestic and international growth.
Lead Through Incidents and Crisis
- Serve as a senior operational leader during significant security incidents, emergencies, and crisis events, ensuring incidents are rapidly identified, validated, escalated, communicated, and managed.
- Coordinate with Global Security leadership and cross-functional partners during major events.
- Support enterprise crisis management, emergency response, business continuity, executive protection, workplace violence prevention, and travel risk programs.
- Develop and run exercises, drills, and simulations, and convert lessons learned into measurable improvements.
Integrate Intelligence, Cyber, and Risk Functions
- Partner with the Global Threat Intelligence to ensure GSOC alerts and observations feed intelligence analysis, and that finished intelligence drives GSOC posture, prioritization, and response.
- Establish joint workflows with Information Security (SOC/CSIRT) for incidents that span physical and cyber domains.
- Build shared escalation criteria, handoff protocols, and a common incident taxonomy across the GSOC in partnership with Threat Intelligence, Information Security, Executive Protection, and Business Continuity.
- Integrate data and tooling where possible (alert feeds, case management, dashboards) to create a shared operating picture across physical and cyber risk.
- Build strong partnerships with Legal, People Operations, Facilities, Communications, and business leaders, and with external law enforcement, emergency services, vendors, and industry peers as appropriate.
Build and Develop the Team
- Lead, coach, and develop GSOC leaders and team members in a 24/7 environment, with clear performance expectations, accountability, and career pathways.
- Build a culture of professionalism, ownership, teamwork, and exceptional service, so team members understand why their work matters to the business.
- Develop succession plans and set training standards that prepare the team for routine and critical events.
- Anticipate future skill requirements and evolve recruiting, onboarding, and development accordingly.
- Represent the GSOC and Global Security professionally with senior executives and external stakeholders.
What You Bring
- Significant and progressive experience in corporate security, global security operations, emergency operations or a comparable operational environment.
- Demonstrated leadership management of a 24/7/365 GSOC, command center, emergency operations center, or similar mission-critical operation.
- Proven record of transforming or materially advancing a GSOC or comparable operation across people, technology, process, and capability, including developing and executing a strategic roadmap.
- Strong knowledge of incident management, crisis response, emergency communications, physical security operations, and security technology, with working knowledge of intelligence and its relationship to operations.
- Experience implementing or integrating security technology platforms to improve operational outcomes.
- Ability to evaluate complex environments, identify capability gaps, set priorities, and execute meaningful change.
- Strong people leadership, with success developing teams and future leaders.
- Ability to develop metrics, analyze trends, and communicate performance and risk to senior leadership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including under high pressure; sound judgment and discretion.
- Ability to build cross-functional relationships and influence without relying solely on formal authority.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
Nice to Have
- Experience leading the transformation or modernization of a global or enterprise-scale GSOC.
- Experience building converged or cross-domain operating relationships between physical security, intelligence, and cyber/information security teams.
- Experience supporting a rapidly growing global organization.
- Experience with threat monitoring, travel risk, executive protection, crisis management, or business continuity.
- Experience with integrated physical security platforms (video management, access control, mass notification, incident management, communications).
- Experience using analytics, automation, or AI in a security operations environment.
- Certifications such as CPP, PSP, CBCP, CEM, or other relevant security, emergency management, intelligence, or leadership credentials.
- Experience presenting security risks, operational performance, and strategic recommendations to executives.
Benefits that Benefit You
- Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Paid parental leave for all
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Fitness Programs
- Emotional & Mental Wellness support
- Learning & Development programs
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- And yes, we have snacks in our offices
Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.
Don't meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.
Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you're excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Important Notes
The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.
Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.
We collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access, deletion, or exercise other CCPA rights at axongreenhousesupport@axon.com or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more information, please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.
Axon's mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon's impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.
We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We're committed to hiring the best talent — regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances — and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email recruitingops@axon.com. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.
Phishing alert: Axon will never ask you to pay for any part of the hiring process, including training, equipment, or background checks. We do not make job offers via text message, WhatsApp, or instant messaging platforms without a formal interview process. All legitimate job openings are listed on our official careers page at https://www.axon.com/careers. If you receive a suspicious offer or outreach from an email address that is not @axon.com, or if you are asked for sensitive personal information (bank details, Social Security Number) prematurely, please ignore the message and report it to recruitingops@axon.com.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Security Operations Manager
Target industries with established sponsorship track records
Finance, defense contracting, healthcare systems, and enterprise tech companies sponsor Security Operations Manager roles most consistently. These sectors face persistent talent shortages in security leadership and have legal and compliance infrastructure already in place to process visa petitions.
Frame your degree field carefully on applications
H-1B eligibility requires the role to be a specialty occupation. A degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information systems, or electrical engineering maps cleanly. Unrelated degrees raise questions, so lead with certifications like CISSP or CISM alongside your academic background.
Emphasize SOC leadership over technical execution
Sponsors aren't hiring for hands-on analysis alone. Applications that highlight team management, incident response program ownership, and cross-functional stakeholder coordination position you for manager-level roles that justify sponsorship more clearly than individual contributor framing does.
Engage employers early about their sponsorship history
Before investing weeks in an application, ask whether the company has sponsored H-1B or O-1 visas for security roles before. Employers with no prior sponsorship experience often underestimate the process and back out late, wasting your time and theirs.
Build evidence for an O-1A if you have notable achievements
Security Operations Managers with published research, conference presentations, or recognized incident response leadership may qualify for the O-1A visa. This bypasses the H-1B lottery entirely and suits candidates with a demonstrable record of distinction in the security field.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for verified sponsoring employers
Most job boards don't surface sponsorship status reliably. Migrate Mate lists security roles from employers with confirmed sponsorship histories, letting you spend your search time on companies already willing to sponsor rather than guessing from generic postings.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Security Operations Manager role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, when the job description requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field like cybersecurity, computer science, or information systems. The key is that the degree requirement must be specific, not general. If the posting says 'any bachelor's degree,' that weakens the specialty occupation argument. Roles tied to a defined technical discipline pass USCIS scrutiny more reliably.
Which employers most commonly sponsor Security Operations Managers?
Financial institutions, defense contractors, large healthcare systems, and enterprise technology companies sponsor these roles most frequently. These sectors face regulatory pressure around security compliance, creating persistent demand for experienced security leadership that domestic hiring alone can't fill. Browse verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate to focus your search on companies with a demonstrated track record.
Can I get H-1B sponsorship as a Security Operations Manager without a computer science degree?
Possibly, but it requires more documentation. USCIS allows three years of specialized work experience to substitute for one year of formal education. Relevant certifications like CISSP, CISM, or CISA also strengthen your case. However, the employer's petition must still demonstrate the role normally requires a degree-equivalent level of specialized knowledge, which your experience record needs to support.
How does the H-1B lottery affect Security Operations Manager candidates?
All cap-subject H-1B visa petitions enter the annual lottery, where selection rates have hovered around 25% in recent years. If you're not selected, cap-exempt alternatives include employers like universities, nonprofit research organizations, and certain government entities. The O-1A visa is another path that bypasses the lottery entirely for candidates with demonstrable recognition in the security field.
What visa options exist for Security Operations Managers who don't win the H-1B lottery?
Several alternatives apply. The O-1A works for candidates with significant achievements, such as published research, conference speaking, or recognized leadership on major incident response efforts. L-1 visas apply if you're being transferred from an overseas office. TN visas cover Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying roles. Some managers extend OPT or pursue employer-sponsored green cards through the EB-2 or EB-3 categories.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Security Operations Manager 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.