Sr. Director, Security Engineering
Adobe Software
JOB LEVEL
M70/P70EMPLOYEE ROLE
People ManagerThe Opportunity
Are you an expert with guiding a large and sophisticated security engineering team for a SaaS organization? Do you have experience leading a global and multi-disciplinary organization focused on software development and operations and improving the organization security posture? We’re looking for you to join Adobe as our Senior Director, Security Engineering.
In this role, which reports directly to the Vice President of Cyber Operations, you’ll lead a global Security Engineering organization, which partners with product development & operations teams, our core infrastructure teams, our architecture teams, our privacy office and cyber legal team. In addition, you’ll build tight partnerships with the leadership across all of Adobe to achieve your goals. Your team will get to partner with engineering leaders across our complete spectrum of products.
What you’ll do
Manage a global team of engineers towards innovation, partnership, collaboration, and operational excellence. Adobe is constantly innovating and threat actors targeting Adobe are also innovating as well. You will constantly challenge the status quo and ensure that new and innovative solutions are developed and operated to meet the business requirements of today and into the future. This role will ensure that our security services not only fix immediate tactical issues but align Adobe solutions towards delivering long-term strategic and sustainable real security value. This will be a highly collaborative position driving and owning relationships within Adobe at all levels and external to Adobe. It is expected that you will operate independently and build confidence with technology, business, and product executives across Adobe. You will lead an organization that owns and drives security outcomes across a global team of engineers.
Develop a high-performing organization that will deliver and operate security services across Adobe including:
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Security Engineering Services
Vulnerability, configuration, and security posture assessment tooling
Security monitoring & response development services
Build security software tools and solutions that support partner teams
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Security Data Services
Logging collection & curation
Data Lake Platform / Databricks
AI/ML Data Services
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
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Security Platform Services
Enterprise Detection & Response (EDR) Platform
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Platform
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Cloud Infrastructure Security
Manage our current day cloud security needs and partner with other organizations such as Security Architecture to define and refine our cloud security strategy
Ensure the security of Adobe’s public and private cloud through understanding its security weaknesses, identifying, and implementing appropriate mitigations
Ensure there are proper guardrails so that the cloud cannot be used in a way that violates Adobe’s security requirements
Partner within the security team and across Adobe to own specific security outcomes and help drive overall security posture improvements.
Customer first and partnership mentality
Constantly evolving service catalog to own security outcomes and drive down security risk
Optimize built in house capabilities and commercial solutions
Presenting the right information at the right level and helping to drive overall product security improvements
Help develop the roadmap of security features across all of Adobe’s products
Grow and hire the strongest security talent in the industry
Take an adversary perspective on how our products & services can be misused and identify & recommend reasonable countermeasures for the next generation of security threats.
What you'll need to succeed
13+ years in Information Security, most of which in a complex, global organization
8+ years of progressive leadership experience in leading engineering teams
3+ years in developing and managing global engineering teams
Master’s degree or equivalent experience
Ability to build strong rapport with business leaders, engineering leaders and customers
Be an expert on product security, and be able to explain technical concepts in understandable ways to business leadership and our customers
Successful track record of developing and operating complex security services across a large organization
Successful track record growing talent and building high performing security teams
Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capability and a pragmatic approach to business
Strong communications skills
Comfort with ambiguity
Application Window Notice
If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least 12:01 AM Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $184,500 -- $392,700 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
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