Senior Director, Product Security (Secure Design, Secure AI)
Salesforce
- Envision and execute secure SDLC practices for multi-billion dollar SaaS offerings.
- Currently leading initiatives to securely design and develop scalable platforms that leverage AI technologies, by integrating cutting edge research with operational security.
- Integrating tightly across the SDLC to assure e-commerce platforms, PaaS offerings, and additional internal efforts, by providing high quality SDL services.
- Contributed to quarterly board reporting of Security Assurance outcomes.
- Building a practical vision and strategy for large organizations
- Influenced the work and direction of 200+ individuals by defining the annual and multi-year strategy for the Security Assurance organization along with fellow leaders.
- Leveraging latest Generative AI techniques to improve the team's operational effectiveness.
- Defined and executed a new Secure Design function from scratch.
- Built the vision, charter and execution model for the newly formed Secure Design function in order to set up durable controls that impacted the earlier stages of the SDLC.
- Delivered projects and programs by leveraging automation, collaborations with various teams and updated processes to enable pragmatic and scalable security services across the organization.
- Leading international and matrixed teams of highly skilled, junior and experienced engineers and leaders that collaborate with product, engineering and security organizations.
- People-centric leadership of diverse, high impact teams with a focus on productivity, quality and wellness.
- Fostered a culture of creativity and innovation in a 25+ person organization.
- Cultivated a start-up mentality that adapted to a larger organization, thus allowing teams to experiment, prototype, fail fast within the team, and scale successes outside.
- Coached first time and experienced leaders, supported their career and teams.