Area Vice President

GardaWorld
San Antonio, TX
Own the Market. Lead the Team. Drive the Results!

GardaWorld Security Services is looking for a high-impact Area Vice President to lead our San Antonio market, a growing multi-site operation spanning San Antonio and Austin. Reporting directly to the Regional Vice President, this leader will own overall market performance across operations, people leadership, client partnership, financial results, compliance, and business growth.

This is a significant leadership opportunity for someone who knows how to run a labor-intensive service business, lead through complexity, and build structure in a fast-moving environment. The San Antonio market is well-positioned, growing, and supported by a strong portfolio that includes major commercial real estate, data center, industrial, manufacturing, and distribution-related business. This role is ideal for a leader who wants real ownership, real visibility, and the chance to make a meaningful impact.

What’s in it for You
  • Competitive Salary: $150,000.00 annually, bonus eligibility, and auto allowance
  • Work Site Location: San Antonio, TX
  • Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, 401(k) with employer matching contributions, paid time off (PTO) policy, paid holidays, disability coverage, and life insurance options.
  • Career Growth: Clear opportunity to grow into an Area Vice President role for a leader who successfully scales the market, strengthens the team, and delivers sustained performance.
Travel Requirements
  • Travel up to 50% of the time.
  • This is a highly visible market leadership role requiring regular travel across the market to stay close to the business, lead the team, and support continued growth.
  • This position offers a monthly auto allowance in addition to salary.
Your Responsibilities as Area Vice President
  • As the Area Vice President, you will lead a geographically dispersed market and be accountable for end-to-end performance. This role requires strong operational discipline, visible leadership, financial ownership, and the ability to lead a multifunctional team across multiple offices.
  • Lead and scale a high-profile San Antonio market spanning San Antonio and Austin, with full accountability for operational performance, client success, and business results.
  • Provide visible, hands-on leadership across the market, building alignment, driving execution, and strengthening performance across multiple locations.
  • Build, develop, and inspire a strong leadership team across operations, client service, account management, and human capital support.
  • Shape a culture of accountability, collaboration, urgency, and operational excellence that positions the market for sustained growth.
  • Own market financial performance, including labor strategy, overtime control, staffing efficiency, and disciplined decision-making that drives profitability.
  • Serve as the senior market leader for key client relationships, ensuring service excellence, responsiveness, and long-term partnership.
  • Partner cross-functionally to support business growth, expansion opportunities, talent strategy, and seamless operational execution.
  • Ensure the market operates with strong compliance, sound process discipline, and a leadership standard that reflects GardaWorld’s values and brand.
In this role, success means:
  • Leading a stable, growing market with confidence and discipline
  • Building strong communication and collaboration across three offices
  • Managing ongoing growth, especially within large, complex client environments
  • Driving profitability through smart labor and operating decisions
  • Creating a branch structure that can perform consistently without constant escalation or daily intervention
  • Being a visible, credible leader to both clients and employees
Your Qualifications:
  • 7+ years of progressive leadership experience in contract security, military operations, or a comparable labor-intensive, service-oriented environment
  • 4+ years of management experience
  • Proven ability to lead teams in a labor-intensive, service-driven environment
  • Experience owning results across operations, people leadership, client partnership, and financial performance
  • Strong comfort level with ambiguity, pace, and managing multiple priorities simultaneously
  • Ability to lead distributed teams and create accountability across a multi-site operation
  • Strong business judgment and comfort with metrics, labor management, and profitability levers
  • A valid driver’s license and driving record that meets company vehicle and insurance standards
  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Authorization to work in the United States
  • Ability to pass an extensive screening process
Your Skills and Competencies:
  • Results-driven and people-oriented
  • Process-minded and operationally sharp
  • Highly organized and self-directed
  • Calm under pressure and adaptable in changing conditions
  • Strong communicator with executive presence
  • Financially disciplined and detail-oriented
  • Comfortable being visible in the field and involved in all aspects of the business
GardaWorld: Make the World a Safer Place

In the United States, GardaWorld Security remains the only guarding security company to be Certified by Great Place to Work. This could be more than a job - 26% of our corporate employees started as frontline workers.

GardaWorld Security is a global champion in sophisticated and tailored security solutions, employing and training highly skilled and dedicated professionals across the globe, offering a wealth of opportunities to individuals looking to gain experience and develop professionally in a growing industry.

It is the policy of GardaWorld Security Services to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, or disability in accordance with applicable federal laws. In addition, GardaWorld Security Services complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, assignment, promotion, termination, layoffs, recalls, transfers, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. It is also the policy of GardaWorld Security Services not to honor requests that employees be assigned on the basis of sex or any other classification protected by law, unless such request is based on a bona fide occupational qualification for that assignment.

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Posted 2026-05-18

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