Senior Director, AI Security Engineering

Slack; New York (NY); On-site; USD 218,000 - 401,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a transformative Senior Director of Security Engineering to evolve Slack's security posture for an AI work OS where autonomous agents are first-class actors. You’ll lead a globally distributed security organization and own platform defense, product security, IAM, and incident response, partnering across Slack and Salesforce to keep Slack trusted for humans and AI agents.

You’ll build end-to-end security vision, shape a proactive security culture, and mentor senior leaders

Qualifications

• 15+ years of cybersecurity across multiple domains, with 8+ years in senior leadership roles.
• Experience building and scaling enterprise security programs at SaaS scale.
• Strong crisis management and incident response across product and enterprise environments.
• Experience leading through organizational change with globally distributed teams.
• Technical depth with strategic versatility from board-level strategy to architecture reviews.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership across Product, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance.
• A related technical degree is required.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the end-to-end Slack Security program across Platform Defense, Product Security, Infrastructure Protection, IAM, Vulnerability Management, and Security Incident Response.
• Lead and scale a globally distributed security engineering organization, hiring and developing senior leaders.
• Serve as Incident Commander for critical security incidents with strategic counsel to executives.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Legal and cross-functional security groups to champion Slack Security and trusted AI agents.
• Benchmark Slack's security posture against industry peers and establish a world-class program.
• Cultivate a security culture across the broader engineering org with training and tooling.

Skills

Security leadership

Incident response

Security architecture

Crisis management

Cross-functional leadership

AI/ML security

Security program scaling

Education

Related technical degree

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a transformative Senior Director of Security Engineering to evolve Slack's security posture for an AI work OS where autonomous agents are first-class actors. You’ll lead a globally distributed security organization and own platform defense, product security, IAM, and incident response, partnering across Slack and Salesforce to keep Slack trusted for humans and AI agents.

You’ll build end-to-end security vision, shape a proactive security culture, and mentor senior leaders