VP, Security Compliance

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Products and Technology

Job Details

Salesforce’s Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team is looking to hire a VP, Security Compliance to deliver global compliance certifications to our customers. The Security GRC team is responsible for enabling stakeholders across the company with security policies and standards for upholding trust, empowering risk-informed decisions to support business objectives, assessing and driving risk reduction and security maturity, and delivering compliance to our customers.

The VP, Security Compliance is a key strategic leader responsible for delivering a global portfolio of compliance certifications through a global team reporting into the SVP, GRC. This role is responsible for orchestrating the external audits across Salesforce’s products to deliver compliance certifications (e.g. SOC, ISO, PCI, FedRAMP, etc.) to our customers. The GRC team is looking for a leader with deep compliance knowledge and expertise in global security certifications and regulations. The individual must have experience leading a complex compliance portfolio at scale and using technology and automation to reduce the cost of compliance and fuel non-linear growth to support global business demands. Technical expertise and the ability to translate compliance requirements into engineering requirements are key. The individual will partner closely with leaders in technology and security to establish a strategy and deliver on the strategy to transform the way that compliance is delivered to our customers.

This role requires a culmination of compliance expertise and technical expertise aligned closely with strategic expertise and the ability to influence at an executive level. The leader for this role should be an inspiring leader for the organization and have experience with people management, talent development, and mentorship for a global team. The leader should have program management expertise and be comfortable with the use of agile for managing work both within the team and in partnership with control owners. The individual for this role should have a focus on scalability and innovation to challenge the status quo and drive risk reduction and security maturity. Finally, the individual should be a force multiplier for the team working cross-functionally to deliver commitments.

Required Skills:​

• Compliance, External Audit expertise with global security compliance certifications (e.g. SOC, ISO, PCI, FedRAMP, ISMAP, IRAP, etc)

• Experience delivering compliance across a diverse product portfolio

• Experienced GRC professional

• Technical expertise with cloud computing and security tools used to manage security services

• People management and talent development for a global team

• Visionary leader

• Strategic influencer

• Strong verbal and written communication skills for communicating with an executive audience

• Innovation mindset

• Ability to solve complex problems

• 10+ years of compliance, external audit, or GRC expertise

• Experience working with Information Security, ERM, Technology, Business, and Legal/Privacy functions

• Experience scaling a compliance program

• Excellent interpersonal and relationship skills

• Excellent presentation and communication skills

• Excellent analytical and process development skills

• Ability to build relationships, influence, and motivate people, instill accountability and drive results

• Detail-oriented with an eye for quality

Desired skills for this role, but not required:

• Industry certifications in security(e.g. CRISC, CISSP, CCIE, CISA, CCSK)

• Industry certifications in program management (e.g. PMP, Agile Scrum Master)

• Hands-on development experience is a plus

• Experience with GRC tools (MetricStream, Archer, etc.)

• Requires relevant BA/BS degree

• Experience using agile to manage compliance

• Salesforce Admin is a plus

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