Senior Director - Office of the CEO

Trust is our #1 value at Salesforce. As the Sr. Director for the Office of the CEO, you will lead the strategic vision and execution of our cloud security posture, assess, challenge, and guide highly technical security implementations spanning Agentforce, Data Cloud, and platform infrastructure. You will manage an elite organization of security engineers and managers focused on building automated, scalable security controls that protect our multi-cloud substrate. You will test the trust boundary to improve security by design, define and assess tools to secure development and ultimately, view every AI-powered solution with a lens for scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and business impact before they reach customers at enterprise scale. This is not a traditional engineering management role. The Sr. Director will operate as an extension of the CEO’s leadership team, providing independent technical judgment on complex implementations, identifying opportunities to modernize and consolidate legacy systems, and drive alignment across a highly matrixed organization that includes Engineering, Security, Product, Infrastructure, Finance, and Go-to-Market. The successful candidate will bring deep firsthand experience delivering results across cloud hyperscalers, a track record of replacing legacy services with secure AI-driven solutions, and the organizational credibility to influence senior leaders across functions without direct authority. Key Responsibilities: Security Evaluations & Technical Governance: Drive security alignment across a complex landscape of "dotted-line" stakeholders. You will partner with Cloud Business Units (CBUs) and Product Engineering to ensure security is baked into the "Golden Path" of development without sacrificing velocity. Lead the shift-left movement by ensuring all security controls are delivered via Terraform, Pulumi, or Ansible. You believe that if a security policy isn't in code, it doesn't exist. Translate complex technical const...