Hybrid Senior Director, Product Security

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About the role

  • Senior Director, Product Security at Salesforce driving security excellence and embedding security practices into product engineering. Leading a team to mitigate risks across software lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Build, scale, and lead the Product Security Advisors (PSA), ensuring close alignment with the broader Product Security and BISO organization
  • Define and drive a forward-looking security advisory strategy that supports product engineering across multiple business units
  • Set a clear vision for the PSA team, empowering them to influence architecture, design, deployment, and runtime security decisions
  • Establish measurable outcomes and reporting frameworks to track program effectiveness, risk reduction, and overall impact
  • Foster a culture of innovation, leveraging automation, agents, and streamlined processes to maximize efficiency and value
  • Implement employee success strategies that drive high performance, accountability, and retention within the PSA team
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to product and platform leadership, embedding with engineering teams to ensure a security-by-default approach
  • Partner with Product BISOs and security teams to curate aligned, risk-based priorities across business units
  • Influence product management and engineering to integrate risk remediation and security best practices into feature development and roadmaps
  • Hold stakeholders accountable for delivering remediation commitments within agreed timelines
  • Lead comprehensive risk assessments across architecture, design, deployment, and runtime phases
  • Oversee technical reviews, threat modeling, code/design reviews, and hands-on testing to uncover and mitigate risks
  • Analyze diverse risk signals and discovery data to prioritize security activities and inform the product security roadmap
  • Guide the PSA team in evaluating trade-offs, recommending optimal solutions that balance security, functionality, and business objectives
  • Partner with the BISO organization to align product risk management with regulatory, compliance, and customer obligations
  • Collaborate with CSOC, SCCT, and other security teams to incorporate lessons learned from incidents into proactive controls
  • Act as a security thought leader, representing Product Security Advisors in executive forums and, as needed, with external customers
  • Rapidly adapt to new and emerging high-risk areas, effectively persuading stakeholders to pivot priorities where required

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
  • Exceptional communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
  • An attacker's mindset; consider abuse and attack paths
  • A passion around improving the security development lifecycle
  • Ability to work with data, identify trends and propose comprehensive mitigations
  • Experience managing or participating in an information security program
  • Threat modeling of security topics across infrastructure security & application security domains
  • Understanding of TCP/IP, common networking ports and protocols, traffic flow, system administration, OSI model, defense-in-depth and common security elements
  • Exceptional writing and presentation skills
  • Experience with client side/browser security features like same origin policy, CORS, CSP, shadow DOM, Web Components, web development frameworks etc.
  • Experience with software development in one or more languages such as: JavaScript, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, TypeScript
  • Some experience performing penetration testing or familiarity with the process
  • 5+ years proven experience in the following areas in a security engineering or research role: Securing products and infrastructure from the OWASP Top 10 and/or CWE Top 25

Benefits

  • time off programs
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • mental health support
  • paid parental leave
  • life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • employee stock purchasing program

Job title

Senior Director, Product Security

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$218,400 - $365,200 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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