VP, Security Engineering for Product Security
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. The role partners with security and engineering executives to design, build, and deploy security controls, architectures, and automated tools across Salesforce’s large-scale platform. This is a highly visible executive leadership role, internally and externally, for an experienced leader who has built and scaled product security programs within a large enterprise technology company, such as a Tier 1 SaaS, cloud, or platform provider. The position provides executive-level guidance on securing multi-cloud environments and embedding security into cloud infrastructure, while representing 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 in 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 leadership and engineering teams through deep technical insight and a history of delivering complex security outcomes.
- Excellent people leadership skills and a proven track record of building, managing, and scaling high-quality, inclusive security organizations.
- Strong leadership acumen and ability to communicate security program health to senior executives, Board members, auditors, and customers.
Nice To Haves
- Experience as a VP or Senior Director of Security Engineering or Software Engineering at a global technology firm.
- Deep technical and engineering experience partnering with product and infrastructure teams, together with strategic leadership scaling security engineering programs across an enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Partner with executive leadership to ensure applications and platforms are developed with security in mind and that appropriate controls are implemented across B2B SaaS environments.
- Oversee engagement between the security organization and product engineering teams, integrating security policies, procedures, and controls into standard software development processes.
- Develop and oversee a product security and risk management strategy to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of customer-facing data and applications.
- Work with product engineering stakeholders to manage and prioritize the technical security debt backlog and associated remediation work.
- Provide executive-level technical guidance on securing multi-cloud environments and embedding security into cloud infrastructure.
- Serve as an external executive spokesperson on Salesforce security programs for customers, analysts, and stakeholders.
- Build, manage, and scale a high-quality, inclusive security organization.
- Communicate security program health to senior executives, Board members, auditors, and customers.
Benefits
- Time off programs
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Mental health support
- Paid parental leave
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Employee stock purchasing program
- Potential eligibility for incentive compensation and equity, depending on the role
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
