Security Risk & Assurance Lead

Salesforce, Inc.; Washington; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Security Risk Operations Lead to drive the execution and maturation of our security risk management programs. You will own cross-functional projects, operational workflows, and stakeholder engagement, helping shape the Risk Operations operating model.

You’ll collaborate with security leaders, program owners, engineering teams, and governance partners, owning a real roadmap and defining modern assurance practices in an engineering-first culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) or information security risk management.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and programs.
• Ability to design, implement, and optimise scalable GRC processes.
• Strong communication and influencing skills across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead rapid risk decisions by coordinating timely reviews, approvals, and escalations to provide decision-makers with actionable information.
• Drive cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives, managing priorities, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Own and improve risk workflows, including security issue management, policy exceptions, risk acceptance, and remediation, ensuring governance consistency.
• Partner with security, engineering, compliance, and business teams to align priorities, run risk reviews, clear blockers, and drive decisions.
• Build scalable processes, operating standards, and escalation paths, and hold teams accountable for remediation commitments and risk disposition.
• Define and improve metrics, dashboards, and leadership reports that show risk exposure, remediation progress, exception trends, and program effectiveness.
• Find ways to cut manual work and build automated workflows with engineering and platform teams.

Skills

GRC

Risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Tools

GRC platforms

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Security Risk Operations Lead to drive the execution and maturation of our security risk management programs. You will own cross-functional projects, operational workflows, and stakeholder engagement, helping shape the Risk Operations operating model.

You’ll collaborate with security leaders, program owners, engineering teams, and governance partners, owning a real roadmap and defining modern assurance practices in an engineering-first culture.