Sr. Director, Security Engineering

Adobe; New York (NY); On-site; USD 184,000 - 393,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative company as a Senior Director of Security Engineering, where you'll lead a global team to enhance security services and drive innovation. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate with diverse teams across the organization, ensuring the security of cloud infrastructures and developing cutting-edge security solutions. Your expertise will shape the security landscape, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment that values creativity and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 13+ years in Information Security in a global organization.
• 8+ years of leadership experience in engineering teams.
• Successful track record growing talent and building teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage a global team of engineers towards innovation and operational excellence.
• Develop a high-performing organization delivering security services.
• Partner with security teams to drive overall security posture improvements.

Skills

Information Security

Leadership

Problem-solving

Communication

Analytical Skills

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Data Lake Platform / Databricks

Enterprise Detection & Response (EDR)

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Job description

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Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

Are you an expert with guiding a large and sophisticated security engineering team for a SaaS organization? Do you have experience leading a global and multi-disciplinary organization focused on software development and operations and improving the organization security posture? We’re looking for you to join Adobe as our Senior Director, Security Engineering.

In this role, which reports directly to the Vice President of Cyber Operations, you’ll lead a global Security Engineering organization, which partners with product development & operations teams, our core infrastructure teams, our architecture teams, our privacy office and cyber legal team. In addition, you’ll build tight partnerships with the leadership across all of Adobe to achieve your goals. Your team will get to partner with engineering leaders across our complete spectrum of products.

What You’ll Do

Manage a global team of engineers towards innovation, partnership, collaboration, and operational excellence. Adobe is constantly innovating and threat actors targeting Adobe are also innovating as well. You will constantly challenge the status quo and ensure that new and innovative solutions are developed and operated to meet the business requirements of today and into the future. This role will ensure that our security services not only fix immediate tactical issues but align Adobe solutions towards delivering long-term strategic and sustainable real security value. This will be a highly collaborative position driving and owning relationships within Adobe at all levels and external to Adobe. It is expected that you will operate independently and build confidence with technology, business, and product executives across Adobe. You will lead an organization that owns and drives security outcomes across a global team of engineers.

Develop a high-performing organization that will deliver and operate security services across Adobe including:

• Security Engineering Services
• Vulnerability, configuration, and security posture assessment tooling
• Security monitoring & response development services
• Build security software tools and solutions that support partner teams
• Security Data Services
• Logging collection & curation
• Data Lake Platform / Databricks
• AI/ML Data Services
• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
• Security Platform Services
• Enterprise Detection & Response (EDR) Platform
• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Platform
• Cloud Infrastructure Security
• Manage our current day cloud security needs and partner with other organizations such as Security Architecture to define and refine our cloud security strategy
• Ensure the security of Adobe’s public and private cloud through understanding its security weaknesses, identifying, and implementing appropriate mitigations
• Ensure there are proper guardrails so that the cloud cannot be used in a way that violates Adobe’s security requirements
  

Partner within the security team and across Adobe to own specific security outcomes and help drive overall security posture improvements.

• Customer first and partnership mentality
• Constantly evolving service catalog to own security outcomes and drive down security risk
• Optimize built in house capabilities and commercial solutions
• Presenting the right information at the right level and helping to drive overall product security improvements
• Help develop the roadmap of security features across all of Adobe’s products
• Grow and hire the strongest security talent in the industry
• Take an adversary perspective on how our products & services can be misused and identify & recommend reasonable countermeasures for the next generation of security threats.
  
  

What you'll need to succeed

• 13+ years in Information Security, most of which in a complex, global organization
• 8+ years of progressive leadership experience in leading engineering teams
• 3+ years in developing and managing global engineering teams
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience
• Ability to build strong rapport with business leaders, engineering leaders and customers
• Be an expert on product security, and be able to explain technical concepts in understandable ways to business leadership and our customers
• Successful track record of developing and operating complex security services across a large organization
• Successful track record growing talent and building high performing security teams
• Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capability and a pragmatic approach to business
• Strong communications skills
• Comfort with ambiguity
  
  

Application Window Notice

If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least 12:01 AM Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $184,500 -- $392,700 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other, Information Technology, and Management

• Industries

  Advertising Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Software Development

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