Senior Director, Business Information Security Officer (BISO)

Proofpoint • Sunnyvale, CA

11d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Director, Business Information Security Officer (BISO) for Product & Engineering is a senior leadership role responsible for driving security alignment, governance, and risk management across Proofpoint’s product and engineering organizations. This role serves as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to Product and Engineering leadership, ensuring that security policies, standards, and risk management practices are effectively defined, adopted, and operationalized within the software development lifecycle. The BISO is accountable for ensuring that product and engineering teams understand, adopt, and adhere to security requirements, enabling secure-by-design product development at scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with strong exposure to product/application security and engineering engagement.
• Proven experience working in or alongside product and engineering organizations in a SaaS or cloud environment.
• Deep understanding of: Secure SDLC and DevSecOps practices
• Application security (OWASP Top 10, threat modeling, secure coding)
• Vulnerability management and security testing tools (SAST, DAST, IAST)
• Strong ability to translate technical risks into product, customer, and business impact.
• Experience influencing cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Experience with regulatory frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar standards.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant certifications (CISSP, CISM, or CSSLP) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary security advisor to Product Management and Engineering leadership.
• Align enterprise security strategy with product roadmaps, architecture decisions, and engineering priorities.
• Ensure security considerations are incorporated early in product design and planning processes.
• Translate technical security risks into product, customer, and business impact to support decision-making.
• Define and maintain product and application security policies, standards, and guardrails aligned with industry best practices.
• Establish clear security requirements for the SDLC, including secure coding, testing, and release expectations.
• Partner with Product & Engineering to operationalize these standards within developer workflows and tooling.
• Drive consistent adoption and enforcement of security policies across all product teams.
• Establish a product-centric risk management framework, including risk identification, prioritization, and reporting.
• Ensure product and engineering teams appropriately assess, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities and design risks.
• Provide governance over risk acceptance decisions, ensuring alignment with business risk tolerance.
• Deliver clear visibility of product security risk posture to executive leadership.
• Partner with Product Security and Engineering teams to promote adoption of secure-by-design and secure-by-default principles.
• Ensure integration of security practices into SDLC and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., threat modeling, SAST/DAST, code reviews).
• Advocate for scalable security tooling and automation that align with engineering workflows.
• Monitor and report on adherence to secure development standards.
• Provide security guidance on product and platform architecture decisions.
• Promote the use of secure design patterns, reference architectures, and reusable controls.
• Partner with engineering teams to evaluate and securely adopt new technologies, including cloud-native and AI/GenAI capabilities.
• Act as the business-facing security lead during significant product-related vulnerabilities or incidents.
• Ensure effective coordination and communication between security teams and product/engineering stakeholders.
• Provide oversight on prioritization and remediation of critical vulnerabilities.
• Build strong partnerships with Product Management, Engineering, Product Security, GRC, and Security Operations.
• Ensure security requirements are clearly defined, understood, and actionable within engineering processes.
• Act as the translation layer between technical security teams and business/product leadership.
• Partner with Product and GTM teams to represent Proofpoint’s product security posture in customer engagements.
• Support security reviews, audits, and customer inquiries related to product security.
• Ensure alignment between product security practices and customer expectations.
• Stay current with emerging threats and vulnerabilities relevant to SaaS and cloud-native products.
• Ensure new product initiatives (e.g., AI/GenAI) incorporate appropriate security controls and governance.
• Drive continuous improvement of product security practices through feedback and insights from the business.
• Lead through influence across product and engineering organizations without direct ownership of delivery teams.
• Foster a culture where security is embedded into product quality and engineering excellence.
• Drive accountability for security outcomes through governance, transparency, and partnership.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits
• Career success on your terms
• Flexible work environment
• Annual wellness and community outreach days
• Always on recognition for your contributions
• Global collaboration and networking opportunities
• flexible time off
• a comprehensive well-being program with two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year
• a three-week Work from Anywhere option

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director