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
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