Salesforce

Senior Director, Security Vendor & Technology Strategy

Salesforce$218K — $365K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in security technology strategy and vendor management
  • Proven background in portfolio rationalization and large-scale consolidation
  • Experience developing decision frameworks into processes
  • Strong cross-functional leadership skills
  • Excellent executive communication abilities

Responsibilities

  • Rationalize the existing security vendor portfolio to reduce complexity and risk
  • Develop a security economics practice to clarify tool costs
  • Build decision frameworks to guide security investment choices
  • Partner with leaders across departments to align technology and budget strategies
  • Establish governance and metrics to track portfolio health

Benefits

  • Flexible work locations in SF, NYC, or Bellevue
  • Resources that support work-life balance
  • AI-driven tools to enhance personal impact
  • Opportunities for professional growth and career development
  • Inclusive culture that encourages innovation and flexibility
Full Job Description

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Job Category

Product

Job Details

Location: SF, NYC, Bellevue

The Experience

We are seeking a Senior Director to lead the rationalization of our security vendor and technology portfolio and bring strategic discipline to how we invest in, build, buy, and manage security capabilities. This leader will turn a sprawling landscape of security vendors into a coherent, defensible portfolio and establish the frameworks and operating processes that govern go-forward decisions and vendor engagement across the organization. This is an individual contributor role.

What You'll Actually Be Doing
  • Rationalize the current portfolio of security vendors, identifying overlap, consolidation opportunities, and gaps to reduce complexity, cost, and risk.
  • Develop a security economics practice that drives cost clarity on tools, including unit costs for vulnerability identification and remediation.
  • Build repeatable decision frameworks and lightweight tooling that guide investment, divestment, build, and buy decisions across the security stack, and design a disciplined vendor engagement process for our multifaceted vendor relationships.
  • Partner with security, procurement, finance, and business leaders to align technology strategy with organizational priorities and budget, and establish governance, metrics, and reporting to track portfolio health over time.


You're Our Person If...
  • You have 10+ years of extensive experience in security technology strategy, vendor management, or a related domain, including leading portfolio rationalization or large-scale consolidation efforts.
  • You've built decision frameworks and translated them into repeatable, defensible processes.
  • You bring strong cross-functional leadership and executive communication skills.
  • You understand the security tooling landscape and how capabilities map to organizational risk.


Even Better If...
  • You've maintained a decision log capturing investment rationale, analysis of alternatives, and non-investment influencing factors for cross-organization reference.
  • You have direct experience negotiating or managing "as customer, partner, competitor, and/or supplier" vendor relationships specifically.

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