VP of Security Engineering for Product Security

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

Core 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.

Required 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 and convey security program health to senior executives, Board members, auditors, and customers.

Benefits:

• Time off programs
• Medical, dental, vision
• Mental health support
• Paid parental leave
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Employee stock purchasing program