Senior Director, Security Portfolio Strategy

salesforce.com, inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 218,000 - 401,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce.com, inc. is seeking a Senior Director to rationalize the security vendor portfolio, turning a sprawling landscape into a coherent, defensible set of tools and programs. You will establish governance, decision frameworks, and lightweight tooling to guide investments and vendor engagement.

This is an individual contributor role. You will partner with security, procurement, finance, and business leaders to align technology strategy with priorities, track portfolio health, and drive cost

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in security technology strategy, vendor management, or related domain.
• Built decision frameworks and translated them into repeatable, defensible processes.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and executive communication skills.
• Understanding of the security tooling landscape and how capabilities map to organizational risk.
• Experience negotiating or managing vendor relationships as customer, partner, competitor, or supplier.

Responsibilities

• Rationalize the current portfolio of security vendors, identifying overlap, consolidation opportunities, and gaps to reduce complexity, cost, and risk.
• Develop a security economics practice that drives cost clarity on tools, including unit costs for vulnerability identification and remediation.
• Build repeatable decision frameworks and lightweight tooling that guide investment, divestment, build, and buy decisions across the security stack, and design a disciplined vendor engagement process for our multifaceted vendor relationships.
• Partner with security, procurement, finance, and business leaders to align technology strategy with organizational priorities and budget, and establish governance, metrics, and reporting to track portfolio health over time.

Skills

Security strategy

Vendor management

Portfolio rationalization

Decision frameworks

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Security tooling landscape

Negotiation with vendors

Job description

Salesforce.com, inc. is seeking a Senior Director to rationalize the security vendor portfolio, turning a sprawling landscape into a coherent, defensible set of tools and programs. You will establish governance, decision frameworks, and lightweight tooling to guide investments and vendor engagement.

This is an individual contributor role. You will partner with security, procurement, finance, and business leaders to align technology strategy with priorities, track portfolio health, and drive cost