Senior Director, Security Engineering

Role overview

A senior leadership opportunity to own the strategy and execution of a multi-function technical security portfolio at an enterprise SaaS company. Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, the role partners across Engineering, Product, IT, GRC, Legal, Finance, and customer-facing teams to embed security architecture into how products are built and shipped, scale protection through automation, and elevate the organization's use of AI across security operations.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a multi-year Security Engineering strategy aligned to business priorities, customer trust, and defined risk appetite.
• Build and prioritize a security portfolio with clear owners, sequencing, milestones, and measurable outcomes across product, platform, and application security.
• Lead and develop managers and senior technical leaders spanning detection and response, vulnerability management, and incident readiness.
• Establish operating mechanisms that improve accountability, execution visibility, and delivery predictability, and resolve missed commitments, blockers, and priority conflicts.
• Mature detection and response, cloud and platform security, vulnerability management, and post-incident resilience programs that address systemic risk.
• Drive an AI-forward roadmap for security automation, operations, and decision support, and own organizational planning, budget, vendor strategy, and headcount investment.
• Advise executive and Board stakeholders on security posture, material risks, priorities, and tradeoffs.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in security engineering or a related technical security discipline.
• 7+ years leading security organizations, including managers and senior technical leaders.
• Track record setting strategy and delivering outcomes across multiple security functions.
• Strong technical grounding in application security, cloud security, detection and response, and vulnerability management.
• Experience partnering with Engineering, Product, IT, GRC, Legal, and Finance leaders to enable secure business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to advise executives and Boards on posture, risk, and investment tradeoffs.

Nice to have

• Success building an AI-forward security organization that improves leverage and automation.
• Manager development, succession planning, and leadership coaching experience.

Benefits and work setup

• Competitive base salary plus meaningful equity and a 401(k) plan.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, plus pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Flexible PTO, paid sabbatical, and additional Community Impact paid holidays.
• Monthly wellness allowance and monthly professional development allowance.
• Fertility and adoption assistance and a complete laptop workstation.
• US base salary range of $220,000–$300,000 at start of employment, determined by location, skills, experience, education, and internal equity, with a broader total compensation package that may include variable pay and equity.