VP, Security Engineering for Product Security

Salesforce is hiring a VP, Security Engineering for Product Security in San Francisco, United States. It pays $258k-$452k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Salesforce.

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Job Category

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Job Details

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Role Overview

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. Trust is our #1 value. You will partner with both security and engineering executives to design, build, and deploy robust security controls, architectures, and automated tools across our multi-billion dollar platform.

This is a highly visible executive leadership role internally and externally for a seasoned executive who has successfully built and scaled product security programs within a large-scale enterprise technology company (e.g., Tier 1 SaaS, Cloud, or Platform providers).

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. It is unlikely a successful candidate will come from a non-enterprise software company background.
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.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The successful candidate will likely have served as a VP or Senior Director of Security Engineering, or Software Engineering at a global technology firm. They should possess deep technical and engineering depth to partner with world-class product and infrastructure teams, combined with strategic leadership to scale security engineering programs across an enterprise.

Unleash Your Potential

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Accommodations

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Posting Statement

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.

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. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $257,500 - $451,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $310,200 - $496,400 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

How we rate this

VP, Security Engineering for Product Security at Salesforce rates 26 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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