Senior Director, Product & Application Security

Senior Director, Product & Application Security

Company: Proofpoint

Proofpoint helps protect people, data, and brands against cyber attacks. Offering compliance and cybersecurity solutions for email, web, cloud, and more.

The Role

As the Senior Director, Product & Application Security, you’ll have the opportunity to work with world-class security experts and cutting-edge technology to secure our product portfolio. You will play a pivotal role in leading Proofpoint’s product security strategy, execution, and risk management initiatives. This senior leadership position is responsible for ensuring that security is embedded throughout the entire product development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, and deployment of Proofpoint’s products and services. You will collaborate closely with engineering, product management, core infrastructure, security operations, and executive leadership to ensure that the company's product security posture is industry leading.

Strategic Leadership

• Define and implement the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for product and application security aligned with company objectives and industry best practices.
• Lead efforts to integrate security into Proofpoint’s Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and DevSecOps pipelines, ensuring that security is considered from inception through deployment.
• Take an adversary perspective to identify, prioritize, and mitigate vulnerabilities in our products across both pre- and post-production environments and establish clear processes for vulnerability management.
• Develop best-in-class security controls frameworks to enable new initiatives such as our Generative AI efforts.

Team Leadership & Development

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of product security engineers and architects responsible for application security testing, vulnerability assessments, and code reviews.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the product security organization.

Collaboration & Cross-functional Engagement

• Partner with product management, engineering, and other relevant teams to ensure that security requirements are clearly defined and implemented within all product offerings.
• Work closely with legal and compliance teams to ensure product security meets regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, and other industry-specific regulations).

Security Operations & Risk Management

• Lead the response to critical product security incidents, vulnerabilities, and threats, ensuring timely mitigation and communication to stakeholders.
• Oversee threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing to identify and mitigate risks in products and applications.
• Ensure that security risk assessments are conducted regularly and that remediation efforts are tracked and closed in a timely manner.

Product Security Evangelism

• Champion security best practices within the organization, driving awareness and education for product teams and stakeholders on secure coding practices and emerging threats.
• Represent Proofpoint’s product security efforts in customer-facing engagements, providing confidence to clients regarding the security posture of Proofpoint products.

Innovation & Emerging Threats

• Stay current with emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and security technologies, and incorporate learnings into Proofpoint’s product security strategies.

Drive research and adoption of new security technologies, methodologies, and tools to enhance Proofpoint’s security capabilities.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Compensation: Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area: Base Pay Range: 232,400.00 - 319,550.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska: Base Pay Range: 186,720.00 - 256,740.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above: Base Pay Range: 168,080.00 - 231,110.00 USD