Skills

Leadership Cloud Security Monitoring Architecture Security Architecture Organization Software Development Databricks

Job Specifications

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

Are you an expert with guiding a large and sophisticated security engineering team for a SaaS organization? Do you have experience leading a global and multi-disciplinary organization focused on software development and operations and improving the organization security posture? We’re looking for you to join Adobe as our Senior Director, Security Engineering.

In this role, which reports directly to the Vice President of Cyber Operations, you’ll lead a global Security Engineering organization, which partners with product development & operations teams, our core infrastructure teams, our architecture teams, our privacy office and cyber legal team. In addition, you’ll build tight partnerships with the leadership across all of Adobe to achieve your goals. Your team will get to partner with engineering leaders across our complete spectrum of products.

What You’ll Do

Manage a global team of engineers towards innovation, partnership, collaboration, and operational excellence. Adobe is constantly innovating and threat actors targeting Adobe are also innovating as well. You will constantly challenge the status quo and ensure that new and innovative solutions are developed and operated to meet the business requirements of today and into the future. This role will ensure that our security services not only fix immediate tactical issues but align Adobe solutions towards delivering long-term strategic and sustainable real security value. This will be a highly collaborative position driving and owning relationships within Adobe at all levels and external to Adobe. It is expected that you will operate independently and build confidence with technology, business, and product executives across Adobe. You will lead an organization that owns and drives security outcomes across a global team of engineers.

Develop a high-performing organization that will deliver and operate security services across Adobe including:

Security Engineering Services
Vulnerability, configuration, and security posture assessment tooling
Security monitoring & response development services
Build security software tools and solutions that support partner teams
Security Data Services
Logging collection & curation
Data Lake Platform / Databricks
AI/ML Data Services
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Security Platform Services
Enterprise Detection & Response (EDR) Platform
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Platform
Cloud Infrastructure Security
Manage our current day cloud security needs and partner with other organizations such as Security Architecture to define and refine our cloud security strategy
Ensure the security of Adobe’s public and private cloud through understanding its security weaknesses, identifying, and implementing appropriate mitigations
Ensure there are proper guardrails so that the cloud cannot be used in a way that violates Adobe’s security requirements

Partner within the security team and across Adobe to own specific security outcomes and help drive overall security posture improvements.

Customer first and partnership mentality
Constantly evolving service catalog to own security outcomes and drive down security risk
Optimize built in house capabilities and commercial solutions
Presenting the right information at the right level and helping to drive overall product security improvements
Help develop the roadmap of security features across all of Adobe’s products
Grow and hire the strongest security talent in the industry
Take an adversary perspective on how our products & services can be misused and identify & recommend reasonable countermeasures for the next generation of security threats.

What you'll need to succeed

13+ years in Information Security, most of which in a complex, global organization
8+ years of progressive leadership experience in leading engineering teams
3+ years in developing and managing global engineering teams
Master’s degree or equivalent experience
Ability to build strong rapport with business leaders, engineering leaders and customers
Be an expert on product security, and be able to explain technical concepts in understandable ways to business leadership and our customers
Successful track record of developing and operating complex security services across a large organization
Successful track reco

About the Company

Adobe is the global leader in digital media and digital marketing solutions. Our creative, marketing and document solutions empower everyone - from emerging artists to global brands - to bring digital creations to life and deliver immersive, compelling experiences to the right person at the right moment for the best results. In short, Adobe is everywhere, and we're changing the world through digital experiences. Know more