Senior Director, Security Vendor & Technology Strategy

Salesforce
San Francisco, Bellevue, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 218,400 - 365,200 annuallyFunction: Strategy & Corporate DevelopmentExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Cross-functional leadership","Executive communication","Strategic decision-making","Portfolio rationalization","Vendor negotiation"]

Lead the rationalization of Salesforce’s security vendor and technology portfolio, turning a complex vendor landscape into a coherent, defensible strategy. Build security economics for cost clarity, create repeatable decision frameworks and lightweight tooling for build/buy decisions, and design a disciplined vendor engagement process. Partner across security, procurement, finance, and business leaders to align technology strategy, governance, and metrics to organizational priorities and portfolio health.

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Senior Director, Security Vendor & Technology Strategy

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Job Summary

Lead the rationalization of Salesforce’s security vendor and technology portfolio, turning a complex vendor landscape into a coherent, defensible strategy. Build security economics for cost clarity, create repeatable decision frameworks and lightweight tooling for build/buy decisions, and design a disciplined vendor engagement process. Partner across security, procurement, finance, and business leaders to align technology strategy, governance, and metrics to organizational priorities and portfolio health.
Location: San Francisco, Bellevue, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Strategy & Corporate Development
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Rationalize the current portfolio of security vendors by identifying overlap, consolidation opportunities, and gaps.
  • •Develop a security economics practice to drive tool cost clarity, including unit costs for vulnerability identification and remediation.
  • •Build decision frameworks and lightweight tooling to guide investment, divestment, build, and buy decisions across the security stack.
  • •Design a disciplined vendor engagement process for multifaceted vendor relationships.
  • •Partner with security, procurement, finance, and business leaders to align technology strategy with priorities, governance, and portfolio-health reporting.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 218,400 - 365,200 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid Parental

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of experience in security technology strategy, vendor management, or a related domain, including portfolio rationalization or large-scale consolidation.
  • •Experience building decision frameworks and translating them into repeatable, defensible processes.
  • •Strong cross-functional leadership and executive communication skills.
  • •Understanding of the security tooling landscape and how capabilities map to organizational risk.
  • •Experience negotiating or managing vendor relationships across customer/partner/competitor/supplier contexts (as an added advantage).
Experience:10+ yearsSecurityVendor managementCybersecurity
Skills:Cross-functional leadershipExecutive communicationStrategic decision-makingPortfolio rationalizationVendor negotiation

Company Brief

Salesforce
Provides a leading cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform with sales, service, marketing, analytics, and integration tools that empower businesses to manage customer relationships and digital transformation at scale.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 1999
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