Sr. Director, Security

About the role

Zapier is an AI-forward company building AI-enabled products on top of frontier models. We are a critical vendor and in many cases a subprocessor for thousands of enterprise customers who route sensitive data, credentials, and business-critical workflows through us every day. As Sr. Director of Security at Zapier, you will lead the Security organization to set and deliver the security strategy for an AI-native SaaS platform.

Responsibilities

• Set and deliver the security strategy for an AI-native SaaS platform that sits in the middle of our customers' most important workflows.
• Lead a team of Application Security (Product Security), Infrastructure Security, Detection & Response, and GRC engineers.
• Partner closely with executives, Enterprise Governance, GTM, Product, Engineering, Legal, and Risk to make security a competitive advantage — not a tax — on how Zapier builds, ships, sells, and operates.

Requirements

• A pragmatic, engineering-oriented SaaS security leader who thinks like an engineer.
• A hypothesis-driven, systems-thinking approach to security.
• Experience leading security teams for SaaS product companies on modern tech stacks that ship quickly and safely.
• Deep understanding in at least one security discipline (Application/Product Security, Infrastructure Security, Detection & Response, etc.).
• Fluent in modern cloud and identity threat models, supply chain risk, and secure-by-default infrastructure.
• An opinion on how to secure agentic systems, MCP-style integrations, and AI features that touch customer data.
• Able to run a real risk program, identify, quantify, prioritize, communicate, and drive down risk across the company.
• Able to communicate complex technical risk to the executive team.
• Able to partner with Product, Engineering, Enterprise Governance, Legal, GTM, Finance, People, and Risk.

Qualifications

• Executive presence internally and externally.
• Strong partnership and excellent communication skills.
• Deep expertise in detection, response, and incident management.
• Experience managing diverse, high-performing, growth-mindset engineering organizations.
• Experience recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding top talent.

Skills

• Pragmatic, engineering-oriented SaaS security leadership.
• Hypothesis-driven, systems-thinking approach to security.
• Led security teams for SaaS product companies.
• Deep understanding in at least one security discipline.
• Fluent in modern cloud and identity threat models.
• Opinion on securing agentic systems, MCP-style integrations, and AI features.
• Ability to run a real risk program.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Deep expertise in detection, response, and incident management.

Benefits

As a remote-first company, we offer a flexible work environment and a range of benefits to support your well-being and productivity.

Pay

We offer competitive compensation packages tailored to individual roles and experience levels.

Schedule

We are flexible with work schedules to accommodate different time zones and personal needs.