Senior Director, Security

Zapier

Sr. Director leading security strategy for an AI-native SaaS platform at Zapier.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $308,400 - $462,600 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set and deliver the security strategy for an AI-native SaaS platform.
Lead a team of Application Security, Infrastructure Security, Detection & Response, and GRC engineers.
Partner closely with executives, Enterprise Governance, GTM, Product, Engineering, Legal, and Risk.
Protect millions of customers from having their API credentials, data, and AI-driven workflows compromised.
Own and evolve the risk management program: identify and quantify enterprise risk.
Lead company-wide security change — standards, golden paths, technical gates, vendor and procurement patterns.
Stay on the bleeding edge of AI, frontier models, and the evolving threat landscape.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You are a pragmatic, engineering-oriented SaaS security leader who thinks like an engineer.
You are an AI-era security leader who helps Zapier stay ahead of what AI makes possible.
You look around corners — on risks and opportunities.
You drive change across the company, not only inside Security.
You are a strong partner to Enterprise Governance on shaping the product.
You have executive presence internally and externally.
You lead with risk management, executive communication, and visibility.
You bring deep expertise in detection, response, and incident management.
You manage diverse, high-performing, growth-mindset engineering organizations.
You can develop and deliver on an aligned security vision, strategy, and roadmap.
You build strong partnerships and are an excellent communicator.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

security strategyrisk managementincident managementapplication securityinfrastructure securitydetection and responseGRCAI-native SaaSAPI securitydata protection

Soft Skills

leadershipexecutive communicationpartnershipchange managementpragmatic thinkingvisibilityengineering mindsetgrowth mindsetstrong communicationstrategic thinking