VP, Security Engineering for Product Security

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

4d•$257,500 - $451,700

About The Position

The VP of Security Engineering for Product Security leads the vision, strategy, and operational direction for systemic, risk-driven security engineering initiatives that protect Salesforce’s customer-facing products and reduce systemic risk across the Salesforce platform. This highly visible executive role partners with security and engineering executives to design, build, and deploy robust security controls, architectures, and automated tools across Salesforce’s large-scale platform. The role calls for an experienced executive who has built and scaled product security programs at a large enterprise technology company, such as a Tier 1 SaaS, cloud, or platform provider. The VP provides technical and strategic leadership across product security, cloud-native security, risk management, and security program governance, and represents Salesforce’s security programs to customers, analysts, and other stakeholders.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in information security and technology, with a proven leadership record at a large-scale enterprise technology company.
Comprehensive knowledge of cyber threats, SaaS attack vectors, and IT security practices applied to cloud operations at scale.
Broad technical expertise and credibility leading cybersecurity and product security programs for global B2B technology companies.
Ability to influence executive leaders and engineering teams through deep technical insight and a history of delivering complex security outcomes.
Excellent people leadership skills and a proven record of building, managing, and scaling high-quality, inclusive security organizations.
Ability to influence the organization and communicate security program health to senior executives, Board members, auditors, and customers.

Nice To Haves

Experience serving as a VP or Senior Director of Security Engineering or Software Engineering at a global technology firm.
Deep technical and engineering depth to partner with product and infrastructure teams, combined with strategic leadership to scale enterprise security engineering programs.

Responsibilities

Partner with executive leadership to ensure applications and platforms are developed with security in mind and appropriate controls are implemented across B2B SaaS environments.
Oversee engagement between the extended security organization and product engineering teams, integrating security policies, procedures, and controls into standard software development processes.
Develop and oversee a comprehensive product security and risk management strategy to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of customer-facing data and applications.
Manage and prioritize the technical security debt backlog and associated engineering work with product engineering stakeholders to remediate risk.
Provide executive-level technical guidance on securing multi-cloud environments and embedding security into cloud infrastructure.
Serve as an external executive spokesperson, responding to customers, analysts, and stakeholders about Salesforce’s security programs.