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Virginia - Mclean; Washington - Bellevue; United States of America

Cyber Defense & Executive Engagement Lead

Posted 3 days ago

Level
Senior
Experience
8+ years
Work style
Hybrid
Full-time
Pay
$172.5k to $260.1k

At a glance

The role in plain English

This role leads strategic threat communications within Salesforce's Cyber Security Operations Center. It suits experienced cyber threat intelligence professionals who can translate complex incident data into clear, actionable insights for executives and leadership. Day-to-day work includes coordinating cross-team products, delivering briefings, and shaping reporting strategy. The position requires strong writing, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills, as well as the ability to work autonomously across distributed teams.

What you'll do

  • Coordinate strategic cybersecurity products across CSOC teams
  • Deliver threat and incident briefings to executives and leadership
  • Develop and execute CSOC-wide reporting strategies
  • Act as bridge between Incident Response, Security Engineering, and Platform Defense

What they're looking for

Essential

  • 8+ years in strategic intelligence writing
  • Proven record of authoring research articles and blog posts
  • Experience writing for technical and executive audiences
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to work autonomously in distributed teams

Nice to have

  • Experience with SaaS cybersecurity reporting
  • Familiarity with cloud threats (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience with Threat Intelligence Platforms
  • Experience with security analysis tools

Core skills

  • Threat intelligence
  • Strategic communications
  • Incident analysis
  • Cloud security
  • Threat briefings
  • Data analysis
  • Stakeholder engagement

The shape of the job

Technical depth

4/5

FoundationalSpecialist

Pace

3/5

SteadyFast-moving

Ownership

4/5

GuidedSelf-directed

Teamwork

4/5

Heads-downHighly collaborative

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How the pay compares

Pays a little above similar roles

Compared with 69 open senior roles in the US on Cyberend that state their pay.

This role

$173k to $260k a year

  • This role
  • Typical range ($160k to $221k)

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  1. 01How do you tailor threat intelligence reports for executive audiences?
  2. 02Describe your experience coordinating cross-functional cybersecurity projects.
  3. 03What frameworks do you use for threat analysis and reporting?
  4. 04How have you handled conflicting feedback from leadership on threat communications?

About Salesforce

Salesforce provides cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) solutions and related enterprise software.

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Job Category

Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

The Experience:

As the Strategic Threat Communications Specialist in the Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC), you turn complex threat and incident data into clarity for the people who need to act on it. You're a core part of the CSOC's Threat Intelligence function, owning how threat and incident trends are communicated to customers, executives, and leadership. This role demands a genuine threat intelligence background, and real fluency in cybersecurity threat and incident analysis—not just a communications generalist, and not a simple information collector.

You'll serve as the face of the CSOC on threat and incident trends, driving internal customer-facing communications such as recurring threat briefings. You'll also own the direction of execution of our board level reporting, recurring data requests, and closing the loop on feedback from our executive leadership team. Your goal: make CSOC threats, intelligence, and incident context clear, trusted, and actionable for everyone who relies on it.

What You'll Actually Be Doing:

  • Product Coordination - Coordinate strategic products that span CSOC teams by organizing participation, setting deadlines, coordinating meetings, and developing written/presented cybersecurity products.
  • Product Delivery - Organize and deliver Salesforce Cybersecurity Organization Center-level briefings to the company CISO and associated leadership.
  • Product Strategy - Take a holistic view of CSOC teams and their respective objectives. Develop CSOC wide strategies for delivering meaningful products to deliver company wide change.
  • Cross-Functional Influence: Act as a central bridge between Incident Response, Security Engineering, and Platform Defense to ensure CSOC intelligence directly hardens our environment.

You're Our Person If You Have:

  • 8+ years hands-on experience with strategic intelligence writing and standard conventions (BLUF, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK), with a proven track record of authoring dozens of research articles and public-facing blog posts
  • Experience with Cyber Threat Intelligence writing for both technical, non-technical, and executive audiences - ideally with threat briefings, threat reports, blog posts, or similar finished intelligence
  • A capable oral and written communicator, you are able to engage others in the business at multiple levels to translate threat research into actionable recommendations to shape strategy and decisions
  • You operate autonomously to drive projects and have experience pulling data from diverse groups in a globally distributed or remote team environment
  • You have an understanding existing and emerging threats to an organization spanning multiple industries and threat profiles
  • Identify patterns and trends across various data sources and distill findings concisely

Even Better If You Have:

  • Experience with cybersecurity reporting needs for a SaaS companies
  • Experience with cybersecurity threats, how advanced adversaries operate and their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), with a focus on AWS, GCP, Azure, and other cloud providers
  • Experience using Threat Intelligence Platforms, and building integrations with these platforms
  • Extensive experience using Machine Learning automation for the detection and disruption of high-harm groups and platform-based abuse
  • Deep familiarity with reverse engineering, malware analysis, and knowledge of underground communities
  • Experience with security analysis tools (Jupyter notebooks, Splunk, ElasticSearch, etc.) or other tooling to gather data and present findings
  • Extensive experience writing on or articulating threats in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
  • Recognized in industry for cybersecurity expertise
  • You have performed all of the above “at scale“ in a large, complex environment

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best , and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best . Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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Posting Statement

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.

The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. 

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

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