Senior Director, Security Vendor Strategy

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 401,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off programs

Medical insurance

Dental

Vision

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director to lead the rationalization of our security vendor and technology portfolio, bringing strategic discipline to how we invest in, build, buy, and manage security capabilities. This leader will turn a sprawling landscape into a coherent portfolio and establish governance for go-forward decisions and vendor engagement across the organization.

This is an individual contributor role with cross-functional collaboration across security, procurement, finance, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in security technology strategy or vendor management.
• Experience leading portfolio rationalization or large-scale consolidation.
• Ability to build decision frameworks and repeatable processes.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and executive communication skills.

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 is seeking a Senior Director to lead the rationalization of our security vendor and technology portfolio, bringing strategic discipline to how we invest in, build, buy, and manage security capabilities. This leader will turn a sprawling landscape into a coherent portfolio and establish governance for go-forward decisions and vendor engagement across the organization.

This is an individual contributor role with cross-functional collaboration across security, procurement, finance, and