Physical Security Manager, APAC/MENA

As the Regional Security Manager covering Ripple's operations across MENA and APAC, you provide accurate, timely, in-region support across two of the company's most dynamic and fastest-growing regions. You drive local relationships, improve responsiveness to incidents, and give employees across the region a locally-informed safety resource they can turn to directly. Working to Ripple's Head of Global Corporate Security, your core responsibility is to establish Ripple's Global Corporate Security team as an established regional function.

What you'll do

• Establish and lead in-region security operations covering the growing office footprint, travel risk management, vendor performance, and incident response across MENA and APAC.
• Provide employees with direct access to a regionally aligned security resource, improving incident response speed and the effectiveness of localized communication.
• Maintain consistent regulatory compliance, drive faster adaptation to local regulatory change, and strengthen audit readiness across all in-region operations.
• Serve as the primary in-region point of contact for security matters across MENA and APAC, advising regional leadership, HR, Legal, and Workplace teams on security posture and risk.
• Own and continuously develop the regional security strategy, including travel risk management, incident response protocols, and office security standards across the footprint.
• Lead and manage vendor relationships across the region, measuring the performance of third-party contractors, guarding providers, and security service partners to ensure consistent delivery.
• Build and maintain local relationships with authorities, industry peers, and intelligence sources to strengthen situational awareness and early-warning capability.
• Lead regional incident response, ensuring rapid, locally-informed decision-making and escalation.
• Establish security groundwork-relationships, risk intelligence, and vendor networks-ahead of Ripple's expansion into new markets including Pakistan and Nigeria.
• Provide expert in-region support during office build-outs, security system rollouts, and any regional project requiring local coordination and progress reporting.

What you bring

• At least 5+ years of experience with increasing responsibility in corporate or physical security roles covering the MENA and/or APAC region.
• A strong existing network of regional contacts across law enforcement, government liaison, intelligence, and vendor communities.
• Experience managing incident response, travel risk, and vendor relationships with successful, on-time delivery.
• A high level of integrity and the ability to professionally handle confidential and sensitive matters with sound judgment and maturity.
• Tenacity and the ability to build a regional function from the ground up.
• Comfort operating with a high degree of autonomy across time zones, with strong communication and escalation discipline back to global GCS leadership.

What we offer

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Rest and recharge days (R&R days)
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual wellness programming
• Generous vacation policy-work with your manager to take time off when you need it
• Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend
• Professional development budget to support learning and growth
• In-office collaboration with flexibility for managers and teams to decide which 10+ days a month they come in
• Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours, catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks and beverages, and fun events

About Ripple

Ripple builds a world where value moves like information does today through crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers. The company improves the global financial system and creates greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people around the world.