Senior Director, Security Engineering
Iterable · Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; New York, New York; REMOTE - US; San Francisco, California
About this role
## Senior Director, Security Engineering Iterable is the AI customer engagement platform built for enterprise scale—trusted by global brands like Redfin, SeatGeek, Priceline, Calm, and Box. We help organizations activate customer data from any source, design seamless cross-channel experiences, and optimize engagement with **Nova Intelligence**—with enterprise-grade security and compliance. ### How you’ll make a difference Customers trust Iterable with sensitive information. Security Engineering protects that trust by partnering across the company to build secure products, infrastructure, and systems—embedding security architecture into how Engineering develops and launches features, and using automation to scale protection, resilience, and assurance. Reporting to the **CISO**, the **Senior Director, Security Engineering** owns the strategy, organization, and execution of Iterable’s technical security portfolio, including: - Product Security - Platform Security - Application Security - Detection & Response - Vulnerability management - Automation - Incident readiness You’ll also help build an **AI-forward Security organization**, using AI to improve security technology, team leverage, decision-making, and operational scale. ### What you’ll do - Define and execute a multi-year Security Engineering strategy aligned to business priorities, customer trust, and risk appetite. - Set a focused portfolio of priorities with clear owners, sequencing, milestones, and measurable outcomes. - Lead and develop managers and senior technical leaders across multiple security functions. - Establish operating mechanisms that improve accountability, execution visibility, and delivery predictability. - Address missed commitments, unresolved blockers, and priority conflicts directly. - Build an AI-forward roadmap for security engineering, automation, operations, and decision support. - Mature application security, cloud and platform security, detection and response, vulnerability management, and incident readiness. - Lead post-incident improvement and resilience programs that address systemic risk. - Partner with Engineering, Product, IT, GRC, Legal, Finance, and customer-facing teams to enable secure business outcomes. - Own organizational planning, budget, vendor strategy, headcount planning, and investment tradeoffs. - Advise executives and Board partners on security posture, material risks, priorities, and investments. ### What we’re looking for - **12+ years** of experience in security engineering or a related technical security discipline. - **7+ years** leading security organizations, including managers and senior technical leaders. - Experience setting strategy and delivering outcomes across multiple security functions. - Strong technical grounding in application security, cloud security, detection and response, automation, and vulnerability management. - Experience leading complex incidents, post-incident remediation, and resilience improvements. - Experience managing budgets, vendors, organizational design, and strategic investments. - A track record of developing talent, creating focus, addressing missed delivery, and leading through ambiguity and change. - Exceptional executive communication, judgment, influence, and written communication skills. ### Success in the first 12 months - Establish a clear strategy, operating model, roadmap, and measurement framework. - Align security functions around a focused set of business and risk priorities.
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