Senior Director, Security Vendor Portfolio Strategy

salesforce.com, inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce seeks a Senior Director to rationalize its security vendor and technology portfolio, establishing governance and decision frameworks for go-forward investments across the organization. This individual contributor role will drive cost clarity, reduce complexity, and align security capabilities with business priorities.

You will partner with security, procurement, and finance to monitor portfolio health, define metrics, and enable data-driven vendor engagements across multiple programs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of extensive experience in security technology strategy, vendor management, or a related domain, including leading portfolio rationalization or large-scale consolidation efforts.
• Built decision frameworks and translated them into repeatable, defensible processes.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and executive communication skills.
• Understanding of security tooling landscape and how capabilities map to organizational risk.

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

Executive communication

Portfolio rationalization

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Salesforce seeks a Senior Director to rationalize its security vendor and technology portfolio, establishing governance and decision frameworks for go-forward investments across the organization. This individual contributor role will drive cost clarity, reduce complexity, and align security capabilities with business priorities.

You will partner with security, procurement, and finance to monitor portfolio health, define metrics, and enable data-driven vendor engagements across multiple programs