Blackstone - Senior Vice President, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Blackstone is seeking a senior leader to support and advance the firm’s global business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience capabilities.
Position Objective
The Senior Vice President of Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery is an experienced professional with extensive expertise in business continuity and disaster recovery, capable of thriving in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. This individual will be responsible for managing and developing a comprehensive global strategic plan and program that focuses on mitigating financial, reputational, and regulatory risks through effective business continuity, crisis management, and disaster recovery strategies, while establishing clear objectives and performance metrics.
This role requires close partnership across Physical Security, Technology, Legal & Compliance, Facilities, Human Resources, Risk, and business leadership teams to ensure coordinated enterprise resilience, crisis management, and recovery capabilities globally.
This role will help further formalize the firm’s enterprise resilience capabilities within a highly collaborative and distributed operating environment. The successful candidate must be comfortable building and scaling programs across multiple functions and stakeholders where centralized ownership models are continuing to evolve.
Success in this role requires strong relationship-building skills, communicating the business value of resilience initiatives, and the capability to educate stakeholders across the organization on business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience concepts and responsibilities.
Job Description
Blackstone seeks a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) leader to manage and operate the firm’s enterprise resilience program. This role is responsible for the strategy, architecture, and execution of BC/DR capabilities across the organization—encompassing program development and governance, training and awareness, testing and exercises, and incident and crisis response. The individual will ensure the program meets external regulatory requirements (e.g., SOX, DORA) while aligning with internal risk, audit, and operational standards.
Responsibilities include designing and scaling an integrated, enterprise-wide framework covering BC/DR policies and procedures, awareness and training, incident response management, and end-to-end lifecycle execution—ensuring readiness, resilience, and rapid recovery across the firm and its portfolio.
Business Continuity Management and Physical Security Management
Business Continuity Program Management
- Lead Enterprise BCM Program – Build and integrate an outcome-driven, audit-ready program aligned to business priorities.
- Ensure Global Regulatory Alignment – Align with U.S., Europe, Asia requirements, and internal risk/audit standards.
- Embed Risk-Based Planning – Partner across business units to drive consistent, risk-informed continuity planning.
- Partner across Physical Security, Technology, Legal & Compliance, Facilities, Human Resources, and business leadership to drive an integrated enterprise resilience strategy and coordinated operational response framework.
- Lead program maturity efforts by establishing scalable governance, coordination, and operational resilience processes across a decentralized global environment.
- Promote enterprise awareness and adoption of business continuity and disaster recovery practices by clearly articulating program value, operational impact, and risk reduction outcomes to different stakeholder groups.
Risk Identification & Business Impact
- Lead Business Impact Analyses (BIA) – Identify critical functions, dependencies, and recovery priorities with quantified impact.
- Define Critical Services & Operational Dependencies – Establish clear visibility into processes aligned with CSO and CIO priorities, and map third-party dependencies that drive business continuity and recovery outcomes.
Architecture & Capability Development
- Design BC/DR Frameworks – Architect scalable, enterprise-wide capabilities aligned to CSO’s and operating strategy.
- Standardize Policies & Playbooks – Establish enterprise standards for continuity and crisis response and recovery.
Execution, Planning & Operational Readiness
- Operationalize BCM Plans – Maintain executable plans across business units and regions.
- Drive Training & Adoption – Embed ownership through training, communication, and accountability.
- Lead Testing & Validation – Run exercises to confirm readiness and identify gaps.
- Coordinate cross-functional preparedness and recovery efforts across Physical Security, IT, Legal & Compliance, Facilities, HR, and other operational stakeholders to ensure enterprise-wide readiness and response alignment.
- Drive enterprise-wide awareness, training, and preparedness initiatives to improve organizational understanding of continuity and recovery expectations.
Support Global Security Operations Center (GSOC)
- Support and Integrate with the Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) to ensure coordinated response across BC, DR, and physical security incidents.
- Manage Crisis & Incident Response – Function as a key escalation point for incident coordination, response execution, and recovery management.
- Serve as a central coordination leader across corporate functions during incidents, crises, and recovery events, ensuring alignment between security, technology, workplace operations, employee support, and regulatory response activities.
External Interface & Stakeholder Assurance
- Client Engagement & Due Diligence (DDQs) – Communicate BC/DR capabilities, compliance, and resilience maturity.
- Executive Reporting & Program Metrics – Deliver KPIs and dashboards to drive transparency and improvement.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships across key enterprise functions to ensure continuity, recovery, regulatory, and operational resilience objectives are consistently executed.
- Build trusted partnerships across business and corporate functions to strengthen engagement, accountability, and resilience ownership throughout the organization.
- Educate and advise stakeholders, including senior leadership and operational teams, on continuity, recovery, and resilience best practices to drive informed decision-making and program maturity.
Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Oversee the Disaster Recovery Program – Align to continuity priorities; ensure SOX/DORA compliance and protect operations.
- Aligning with Application Owners – Define recovery objectives, dependencies, and sequencing ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Partner with GRC – Embed BC/DR into GRC, ERM, audit, and deal lifecycle.
- Operationalize Recovery Capabilities – Implement standardized, executable recovery strategies with BXTI’s internal development standards team.
- Validate & Improve – Run testing and track performance to ensure readiness.
Qualifications / Education
- 15+ years leading enterprise security, BCM, and DR in complex global environments.
- Proven operator in high-tempo, high-accountability settings with strong judgment.
- Deep experience managing budgets, invoicing, contractors, and vendors.
- Track record building and scaling enterprise resilience programs.
- Expertise in risk identification, gap analysis, and solution execution.
- Lead and influence cross-functional initiatives across Physical Security, IT, Legal & Compliance, Facilities, HR, Risk, and business operations in complex global environments.
- Experience building, maturing, and operationalizing enterprise resilience programs in complex, matrixed, or decentralized organizational environments.
- Strong executive engagement skills to influence senior leadership and drive alignment across distributed stakeholders and operational functions in evolving organizational environments.
- Strong relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills to build credibility and trust across technical, operational, and executive audiences.
- Communicate complex resilience, continuity, and recovery concepts in a practical and business-oriented manner.
- Experience driving organizational adoption and awareness of BC/DR programs in environments with varying levels of resilience maturity.
- Experience leading crisis response and recovery operations.
- Advanced program management and cross-functional coordination.
- Effective communicator in global, cross-cultural environments.
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
- This position requires occasional global travel, estimated at less than 10% annually, in support of business continuity, crisis management, and operational resilience initiatives.
The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.
Expected annual base salary range:
$200,000 - $250,000
Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.
Additional compensation and benefits offered in connection with the roleconsist of comprehensive health benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and FSA benefits; paid time off; life insurance; 401(k) plan; and discretionary bonuses. Certain employees may also be eligible for equity and other incentive compensation at Blackstone’s sole discretion.
