VP, Security & Trust Engineering

Gong.io • Chicago, NY

4d • $300,000 - $350,000

About The Position

Gong harnesses the power of AI to transform how revenue teams win. The Gong Revenue AI Operating System unifies data, insights, and workflows into a single, trusted system that observes, guides, and acts alongside the world’s most successful revenue teams. Powered by the Gong Revenue Graph, AI-powered intelligence, specialized agents, and trusted applications, Gong helps more than 5,000 companies around the world deeply understand their teams and customers, automate critical sales workflows, and close more deals with less effort. For more information, visit www.gong.io. At Gong, you will join a company built on innovative products, ambitious goals, and passionate people. We are shaping the future of revenue intelligence and we want people who are excited to build what comes next. You will work with a team that dreams big, moves fast, and cares deeply about the craft and about each other. Here, transparency and trust are core to how we operate, and every person has the opportunity to make a visible impact. If you want to grow, stretch, and do work that truly matters, Gong is the place to do the best work of your career. This is not a traditional security role—it's a chance to be the foundational security leader for a hyper-growth AI/ML-driven SaaS platform. You will embed security as a competitive differentiator and an accelerant for product innovation.

Requirements

• 20+ Years of Progressive Security Leadership: Demonstrated history guiding enterprise security, risk management, and infrastructure for complex SaaS environments.
• Multi-Cloud Engineering Expertise: Deep expertise spanning product security, cloud architecture , and experience delivering resilient and compliant systems across AWS, GCP, and Azure .
• Proven Builder of High-Performance Teams: Experience successfully building and directing global engineering teams.
• Strategic Tooling Modernization: Experience leading the evaluation, adoption, and consolidation of major enterprise security and IT solutions, such as CSPM (Wiz) , SIEM/SOAR (Google SecOps/Sentinel) , and endpoint security (CrowdStrike) .
• Expertise in Enterprise-Scale IAM: Track record of establishing enterprise IAM strategies to unify identity management across cloud platforms and corporate environments.
• Security Risk and Compliance Mastery: Extensive background in RMF/FedRAMP and conducting assessments against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework .

Responsibilities

• Forge the AI-Native Security Posture: Architect and lead the end-to-end security program for our modern, multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) SaaS environment, specifically securing the unique data pipelines, model training environments, and intellectual property inherent to an AI company.
• Drive Product Security-by-Design: Integrate security-by-design principles into the software delivery lifecycle , partnering directly with product and engineering teams to ensure our AI SaaS product is built securely from inception and reduce risk across multi-cloud workloads.
• Pioneer Modern Security Operations (SecOps): Design a hyper-automated SecOps function, leveraging advanced platforms (e.g., Google SecOps, Wiz, Sentinel) to achieve near real-time visibility and response across cloud infrastructure, minimizing operational noise.
• Establish Unified Identity and Access Strategy (IAM): Own and execute the enterprise-wide IAM strategy, simplifying access control and unifying identity management across all cloud platforms, corporate environments, and the product itself.
• Build the Foundation for Enterprise Compliance: Establish the technical and organizational foundation for secure SaaS delivery at enterprise scale to support global enterprise compliance (e.g., PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO), transforming compliance from a checklist to an outcome of a mature security architecture.

Benefits

• We offer Gongsters a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs.
• Wellbeing Fund - flexible wellness stipend to support a healthy lifestyle.
• Mental Health benefits with covered therapy and coaching.
• 401(k) program to help you invest in your future.
• Education & learning stipend for personal growth and development.
• Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend.
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family.
• Company-wide recharge days each quarter.
• Work from home stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees