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Senior Director, Security Engineering - Product Security Engineering

Rippling
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/9/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/9/2025

Senior Director, Security Engineering - Product Security

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced leader to join Rippling’s Security Engineering function. The role reports to the CISO and will lead a Product Security Team dedicated to securing our Platform and IT Products.

This role will grow a dedicated security team who will build a security platform tailored for a particular cloud.

What you will do

  • Act as the head of security for your Rippling Cloud helping the Engineering leaders there to understand and manage their risk.
  • Lead and maintain a team of talented product security engineers.
  • Create the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the security architecture for your cloud, and iteratively deliver on these goals quarter over quarter.
  • Collaborate with your peer Directors within Security Engineering to build a security Platform roadmap of services that should be managed centrally to allow us to scale our own security operations.
  • Build effective security controls that measurably reduce risk.
  • Build effective metrics that allow you to communicate the risk and current security posture of the cloud to the CISO and Executive stakeholders.
  • Create a long-term roadmap for the team which includes resourcing and capacity planning to input into Rippling long-range planning.

What you will need

  • 10 years of experience in Security and significant experience in a leadership role.
  • Excellent leadership and people management skills. A talent magnet; you can attract and retain top security talent.
  • The capability to be hands-on when required and provide technical mentorship where necessary.
  • Excellent communication skills and an ability to influence outside of the security domain.
  • An ability to organize and execute with experience in engineering processes, OKRs, and KPIs.
  • Pragmatism, and a passion for SaaS products and start-up culture.
  • Additional Information

    Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com.

    This role will receive a competitive salary benefits equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location.

    The pay range for this role is :

    225,000 - 393,750 USD per year (US Tier 1)

    202,500 - 354,375 USD per year (US Tier 2)

    191,250 - 334,688 USD per year (US Tier 3)

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