Senior Director, Security Vendor & Technology Strategy

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Product Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. 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 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. Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and   be your best , and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can   do your best . Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world. Accommodations If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form . Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including