Senior Director, Security Engineering - Product Security

About Rippling

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.

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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.

Rippling is an ambitious company with multiple products across our service clouds (HCM, Payroll, IT and Spend) with a large and complex platform that allows us to scale our compound start-up. This means we have engineers working on products as diverse as payroll management to endpoint management. 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. You are a people leader, but you have not grown too far from your technical roots and are excited about the art of building security into complex systems.
• 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. Driving security program maturity through code and security metrics.
• 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

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

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; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.