Senior Director, Security Vendor Strategy

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

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director to lead the rationalization of our security vendor portfolio and establish disciplined governance for investment, build, and vendor engagement. This role is an individual contributor, reporting into security leadership and collaborating across functions.

You will drive cost clarity, establish decision frameworks, and partner with security, procurement, and finance to align technology strategy with organizational priorities while delivering measurable

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in security technology strategy or vendor management.
• Experience leading portfolio rationalization or large-scale consolidation.
• Ability to build repeatable, defensible decision frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Rationalize the current security vendor portfolio to reduce complexity and risk.
• Develop a security economics practice with clear unit costs for tools.
• Create decision frameworks and lightweight tooling for buy/build/divest decisions.
• Partner with security, procurement, finance, and business leaders to align strategy with priorities.

Skills

Security strategy

Vendor management

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director to lead the rationalization of our security vendor portfolio and establish disciplined governance for investment, build, and vendor engagement. This role is an individual contributor, reporting into security leadership and collaborating across functions.

You will drive cost clarity, establish decision frameworks, and partner with security, procurement, and finance to align technology strategy with organizational priorities while delivering measurable