VP of Product Security Engineering & Trust

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 258,000 - 496,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off programs

Medical

Dental

Vision

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchasing program

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a VP of Security Engineering for Product Security who will lead the vision, strategy, and operational direction for systemic risk-driven security initiatives that protect Salesforce’s customer-facing products and reduce systemic risk across the platform.

You will partner with security and engineering executives to design, build, and deploy robust security controls, architectures, and automated tools across our multi-billion dollar platform.

Qualifications

• Enterprise Experience: 15+ years of experience in information security and technology, with a proven track record of leadership in a large-scale enterprise technology company.
• Threat & Attack Vector Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge of cyber threats, SaaS attack vectors, and IT security practices applied to cloud operations at scale.
• Product Security Mastery: Technical credibility and broad expertise in leading cybersecurity and product security programs for global B2B technology companies.
• Technical Credibility: Ability to influence executive leadership and engineering teams through deep technical insight and a history of delivering complex security outcomes.
• People Leadership & Inclusion: Excellent people leadership skills with a proven track record of building, managing, and scaling high-quality, inclusive security organizations.
• Executive & Board Communication: Strong leadership acumen to influence the organization, convey security program health to senior executives, Board members, auditors, and customers.

Responsibilities

• Executive Engagement & Collaboration: Partner closely with executive leadership to ensure that all applications and platforms are developed with security in mind and that appropriate security controls are implemented across B2B SaaS environments.
• Engineering Engagement & Governance: Oversee engagement between the extended security organization and product engineering teams, ensuring security policies, procedures, and controls are integrated into standard software development processes.
• Strategic Product Security Program: Develop and oversee a comprehensive product security and risk management strategy designed to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of customer-facing data and applications.
• Technical Security Debt Management: In partnership with product engineering stakeholders, manage and prioritize the technical security debt backlog and associated engineering tasks to best remediate risk.
• Cloud-Native Architecture: Provide executive-level technical guidance on securing multi-cloud environments and embedding security deeply into cloud infrastructure.
• Customer & External Engagement: Serve as an externally facing executive spokesperson to respond to customers, analysts, and stakeholders regarding Salesforce's security programs, building confidence in our products.

Skills

Enterprise leadership

Threat & attack vectors

Product security

Technical credibility

People leadership

Executive communication

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a VP of Security Engineering for Product Security who will lead the vision, strategy, and operational direction for systemic risk-driven security initiatives that protect Salesforce’s customer-facing products and reduce systemic risk across the platform.

You will partner with security and engineering executives to design, build, and deploy robust security controls, architectures, and automated tools across our multi-billion dollar platform.