Senior Director - SaaS, Cloud & Product Security

PTC; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

PTC in the United States is seeking a Senior Director, SaaS, Cloud & Product Security to lead the product security strategy across our SaaS platforms, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing software products.

This role partners with Engineering, Product Management, SRE/Platform, and GRC/Compliance to embed security into architecture, design, development, deployment, and runtime operations—driving measurable risk reduction while enabling product velocity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 10+ years in security engineering and/or product security, with cloud/SaaS experience.
• 5+ years leading managers and/or multiple teams in security programs.
• Experience embedding security into engineering workflows (DevSecOps) and improving release quality.
• Experience partnering with engineering leadership to influence architecture/roadmaps and drive remediation accountability.
• Experience supporting customer assurance and compliance obligations tied to secure development expectations (SSDF language helpful).

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a multi-year product/security strategy and roadmap across AI, SaaS, cloud, and product lines.
• Lead a product security organization, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Engage directly with customers to support sales cycles and address security concerns.
• Embed security into SDLC/DevSecOps with training, reviews, threat modeling, and automated testing.
• Review contracts for security/compliance requirements with Legal, Sales, and GRC.
• Influence architecture, design, and secure-by-design decisions for multi-tenant SaaS and APIs.
• Govern secure development policies/standards, release security criteria, and definition of done.
• Define OSS/third-party security requirements and vulnerability monitoring.
• Establish metrics and reporting to track program effectiveness.
• Partner with product engineering to influence roadmaps without slowing delivery.
• Support customer security reviews and regulatory attestations.

Skills

AI-first security

App & product security fundamentals

NIST SSDF maturity

Executive stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Our world is transforming, and PTC is leading the way.Our software brings the physical and digital worlds together, enabling companies to improve operations, create better products, and empower people in all aspects of their business.

Our people make all the difference in our success. Today, we are a global team of nearly 7,000 and our main objective is to create opportunities for our team members to explore, learn, and grow – all while seeing their ideas come to life and celebrating the differences that make us who we are and the work we do possible.

The Senior Director, SaaS, Cloud & Product Security is a senior security leader responsible for defining and executing the product security strategy across our SaaS platforms, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing software products. The role partners closely with Engineering, Product Management, SRE/Platform, and GRC/Compliance to embed security into architecture, design, development, deployment, and runtime operations—driving measurable risk reduction while enabling product velocity. This leader builds and scales a high-performing organization that serves as trusted security advisors to product and platform teams, influencing roadmaps and ensuring accountability for remediation of material risks.

Responsibilities

• Set strategy & operating model: Define and execute a multi-year product/security strategy and roadmap across AI, SaaS, cloud, and product lines; establish a durable operating rhythm.
• Lead the function: Operate, scale, and lead a product security organization (e.g., security architects, product security engineers, security champions enablement, AppSec tooling/program roles), including hiring, coaching, and performance management
• Engage directly with customers to support sales cycles: Join customer and prospect calls to speak as the security SME, helping close deals by building trust and addressing concerns while also participating in RFP/RFI responses where product security expertise is needed.
• Embed security into the SDLC/DevSecOps: Ensure security is integrated into agile delivery through developer security training, design/architecture reviews, threat modeling, security user stories, automated security testing, penetration testing, and audit readiness.
• Review contracts for security and compliance requirements: Evaluate customer agreements, security addendums, DPAs, and vendor contracts for alignment with internal capabilities and risk thresholds. Partner with Legal, Sales, and GRC to ensure commitments are feasible, enforceable, and do not introduce undue operational or compliance risk.
• Architecture & design influence: Serve as a senior security advisor to engineering leadership; drive secure-by-design decisions for multi-tenant SaaS, APIs, identity, encryption, secrets, logging/monitoring, and tenant isolation.
• Secure SDLC governance & standards: Own or co-own secure development policies/standards, release security criteria, and “definition of done” expectations (e.g., required SAST/DAST/SCA gates; pre-release validation).
• Supply chain & third-party security: Define requirements for OSS and third-party components, including provenance, vulnerability monitoring, and secure acquisition/maintenance practices.
• Metrics & continuous improvement: Establish measurable outcomes and reporting frameworks to track program effectiveness (risk reduction, coverage, remediation speed, escaped defects, incident trends) and guide investment decisions.
• Cross-functional partnership: Partner with product engineering groups as trusted security counterparts across architecture, design, deployment, and runtime operations; influence backlogs and roadmaps without slowing delivery.
• Customer & regulatory assurance: Support customer security reviews, attestations, and compliance-driven requirements by translating expectations into practical engineering controls and evidence.

Skills and Knowledge

• AI-first approach to securing securing SaaS and cloud-native architectures (multi-tenancy, microservices, containers/Kubernetes, service meshes, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code).
• Strong application & product security fundamentals (secure design, threat modeling, secure coding patterns, API security, authn/authz, cryptography, secrets management).
• Fluency with secure development frameworks and maturity models (e.g., NIST SSDF practice groups and outcomes; metrics-driven improvement).
• Strong stakeholder influence at senior levels—able to navigate ambiguity and drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Platform/SRE, and Compliance.

Experience

• 10+ years in security engineering and/or product security, with significant experience in cloud and SaaS environments.
• 5+ years leading managers and/or multiple teams, scaling security programs across multiple products or business units.
• Demonstrated success embedding security into engineering workflows (agile/DevOps) and improving release quality through automated testing and standard gates.
• Track record partnering with engineering leadership to influence architecture/roadmaps and drive remediation accountability.
• Experience supporting customer assurance and compliance obligations tied to secure development expectations (SSDF-aligned language helpful).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven people leadership experience building and scaling security teams.

PTC carefully considers a widevarietyof factorswhendeterminingcompensation.Theanticipatedannual salary range for this positionisbetween$200,000-250,000.The salary rangereflectsa good-faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting.Actualcompensationmayvary based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Additionally, candidates may be eligible fora performance-basedbonus.Employeesalsohavethe opportunity tobecome a PTC shareholder through our employee share purchase program(ESPP),which allowsfor thepurchaseofdiscounted PTC stock.Certainrolesmay also be eligible forparticipation in ourequity programs.Employees may be eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance, paid time off and sick leave, tuition reimbursement, 401(k) contributions and employer match, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage and,if you are an office-assigned employee,a generous commuter subsidy.All total rewards and benefits programs are subject to applicable planeligibilityand otherterms and conditions.

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