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Salary: USD 220,000 - 300,000 / annual
Iterable is an AI-powered customer engagement platform trusted by global brands like Redfin, SeatGeek, Priceline, Calm, and Box. The company serves nearly 1,200 brands across 50+ countries and is recognized as a Leader by G2 and a Challenger by Gartner in the Multichannel Marketing space.
Reporting to the CISO, the Senior Director of Security Engineering will own the strategy, organization, and execution of Iterable's technical security portfolio. This includes Product Security, Platform Security, Application Security, Detection and Response, vulnerability management, automation, and incident readiness.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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
Success in the first 12 months includes establishing a clear strategy and operating model, aligning security functions around focused priorities, launching an AI-forward security roadmap, improving accountability and delivery predictability, and strengthening leadership capacity through manager development.
Requirements:
- 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
- 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
