Senior Director, Security Vendor & Technology 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

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Product

Job Details

About Salesforce

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Location: SF, NYC, Bellevue

The Experience

We are seeking a Senior Director to lead the rationalization of our security vendor and technology portfolio and bring strategic discipline to how we invest in, build, buy, and manage security capabilities. This leader will turn a sprawling landscape of security vendors into a coherent, defensible portfolio and establish the frameworks and operating processes that govern go-forward decisions and vendor engagement across the organization. This is an individual contributor role.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

• 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.

You're Our Person If...

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

Even Better If...

• You've maintained a decision log capturing investment rationale, analysis of alternatives, and non-investment influencing factors for cross-organization reference.
• You have direct experience negotiating or managing "as customer, partner, competitor, and/or supplier" vendor relationships specifically.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. The typical base salary range for this position is $218,400- $365,200 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $263,200 - $401,400 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• an employee stock purchasing program