Cyber Defense & Executive Engagement Lead

Salesforce; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce seeks a Strategic Threat Communications Specialist within the CSOC to translate complex threat and incident data into clear, actionable guidance for executives and customers. You will own threat intelligence communications, board-level reporting, and recurring threat briefings, shaping how leadership perceives and acts on cybersecurity trends.

You will collaborate across Incident Response, Security Engineering, and Platform Defense, delivering coherent programs and trusted insights at

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on experience with strategic intelligence writing and standard conventions (BLUF, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK).
• Experience writing threat intelligence for technical and executive audiences.
• Capable communicator translating threat research into actionable recommendations.
• Autonomous, capable of driving projects in distributed teams.
• Understanding threats across multiple industries and threat profiles.
• Ability to distill findings from diverse data sources.

Responsibilities

• Product Coordination - Coordinate strategic products that span CSOC teams by organizing participation, setting deadlines, coordinating meetings, and developing written/presented cybersecurity products.
• Product Delivery - Organize and deliver Salesforce Cybersecurity Organization Center-level briefings to the company CISO and associated leadership.
• Product Strategy - Take a holistic view of CSOC teams and their respective objectives. Develop CSOC wide strategies for delivering meaningful products to deliver company wide change.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Act as a central bridge between Incident Response, Security Engineering, and Platform Defense to ensure CSOC intelligence directly hardens our environment.

Skills

Threat intelligence writing

Executive audience writing

Oral and written communication

Autonomy to drive projects

Threat landscape understanding

Pattern & trend analysis

Tools

Threat Intelligence Platforms

Jupyter notebooks

Splunk

ElasticSearch

Job description

Job Category

Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isnt a buzzword - its a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

The Experience

As the Strategic Threat Communications Specialist in the Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC), you turn complex threat and incident data into clarity for the people who need to act on it. You're a core part of the CSOC's Threat Intelligence function, owning how threat and incident trends are communicated to customers, executives, and leadership. This role demands a genuine threat intelligence background, and real fluency in cybersecurity threat and incident analysis-not just a communications generalist, and not a simple information collector.

Youll serve as the face of the CSOC on threat and incident trends, driving internal customer-facing communications such as recurring threat briefings. You'll also own the direction of execution of our board level reporting, recurring data requests, and closing the loop on feedback from our executive leadership team. Your goal: make CSOC threats, intelligence, and incident context clear, trusted, and actionable for everyone who relies on it.

What Youll Actually Be Doing

• Product Coordination - Coordinate strategic products that span CSOC teams by organizing participation, setting deadlines, coordinating meetings, and developing written/presented cybersecurity products.
• Product Delivery - Organize and deliver Salesforce Cybersecurity Organization Center-level briefings to the company CISO and associated leadership.
• Product Strategy - Take a holistic view of CSOC teams and their respective objectives. Develop CSOC wide strategies for delivering meaningful products to deliver company wide change.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Act as a central bridge between Incident Response, Security Engineering, and Platform Defense to ensure CSOC intelligence directly hardens our environment.

Youre Our Person If You Have

• 8+ years hands-on experience with strategic intelligence writing and standard conventions (BLUF, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK), with a proven track record of authoring dozens of research articles and public-facing blog posts
• Experience with Cyber Threat Intelligence writing for both technical, non-technical, and executive audiences - ideally with threat briefings, threat reports, blog posts, or similar finished intelligence
• A capable oral and written communicator, you are able to engage others in the business at multiple levels to translate threat research into actionable recommendations to shape strategy and decisions
• You operate autonomously to drive projects and have experience pulling data from diverse groups in a globally distributed or remote team environment
• You have an understanding existing and emerging threats to an organization spanning multiple industries and threat profiles
• Identify patterns and trends across various data sources and distill findings concisely

Even Better If You Have

• Experience with cybersecurity reporting needs for a SaaS companies
• Experience with cybersecurity threats, how advanced adversaries operate and their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), with a focus on AWS, GCP, Azure, and other cloud providers
• Experience using Threat Intelligence Platforms, and building integrations with these platforms
• Extensive experience using Machine Learning automation for the detection and disruption of high-harm groups and platform-based abuse
• Deep familiarity with reverse engineering, malware analysis, and knowledge of underground communities
• Experience with security analysis tools (Jupyter notebooks, Splunk, ElasticSearch, etc.) or other tooling to gather data and present findings
• Extensive experience writing on or articulating threats in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
• Recognized in industry for cybersecurity expertise
• You have performed all of the above "at scale" in a large, complex environment

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, youll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.