Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

We are seeking a visionary leader to build and scale our Security Tools capability to centralize ownership, strategy, and lifecycle management of all security tooling under a single leader. This role will also oversee an engineering team responsible for driving automation, workflow modernization, and innovation across Product Security, Threat Modeling, Platform Security, and our Security Insights data platform.

The ideal candidate is an experienced security engineering leader who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments, understands modern security architectures, and knows how to turn fragmented toolsets into integrated, automated, intelligence-driven ecosystems.

This position is a people manage role reporting to the Vice President, Security Assurance.

Responsibility

• Develop and own the multi-year strategy for all security tools across Security

• Centralize tool selection, procurement, onboarding, maintenance, and vendor management under one unified program

• Rationalize overlapping tools and drive consolidation toward a cohesive, modern, automated security stack

• Establish measurable KPIs, SLIs, and ROI models to evaluate tool performance and effectiveness

• Own the insights layer of our security tooling ecosystem, including ITSM-driven attribution, tool-to-asset mapping, and measurement of coverage and efficacy across our controls

• Lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for building internal tools, integrating external tools into processes, automation, and integrations supporting Product Security, Threat Modeling, Platform Security, Vuln, Config and Exposure management

• Drive standardization and scale across security workflows (e.g., SDL and integration automation, Product Security, Platform Security and Exposure Management)

• Partner with Product amp; Platform Engineering to embed security-by-design capabilities into developer-facing tooling and CI/CD workflows

• Champion innovation by introducing modern technologies, including AI-assisted security automation and decision support systems for Security Assurance

• Partner with Product Security, Threat Modeling, Platform Security, SOC, IT, Architecture, and Developer Experience to ensure tooling and automation meet real-world needs

• Collaborate closely with the CISO and Security Leadership Team to shape strategy, report progress, and influence long-term planning

• Work with Finance and Procurement on vendor evaluations, budget planning, and cost optimization across the security tool ecosystem

• Recruit, mentor, and grow engineering talent across full-stack development, automation, and security data engineering

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and engineering excellence

• Create structures that enable experimentation, rapid delivery, predictable execution, and high-quality outcomes

Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in-office expectation)

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

Basic

• 15+ years in Engineering, Product, DevOps Security

• 5+ years leading technical teams

• Experience developing security tooling ecosystems and driving automation within large or scaled engineering organizations

• Experience with cloud security, SDL processes, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience working with data engineering teams, telemetry, or security analytics platforms

• Ability to define strategy, influence senior leaders, and deliver multi-quarter programs with measurable impact

Preferred

• Experience deploying or managing AI-powered security automation

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for executive audiences

• Background building internal developer tools or security platforms

• Experience in high-scale SaaS or cloud-native environments

• Prior ownership of vendor/tool rationalization across multiple domains

Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Based on applicable legislation, the below details pay ranges in the following locations:

California: $233,300.00 - $373,525.00 base salary

This role is also eligible for the following:

• Bonus: Sales personnel are eligible for variable incentive pay dependent on their achievement of pre-established sales goals. Non-Sales roles are eligible for a company bonus plan, which is calculated as a percentage of eligible wages and dependent on company performance.
• Stock: This role is eligible to receive Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Global benefits provide options for the following:

• Paid Time Off: earned time off, as well as paid company holidays based on region
• Paid Parental Leave: take up to six months off with your child after birth, adoption or foster care placement
• Full Health Benefits Plans: options for 100% employer paid and minimum employee contribution health plans from day one of employment
• Retirement Plans: select retirement and pension programs with potential for employer contributions
• Learning and Development: options for coaching, online courses and education reimbursements
• Compassionate Care Leave: paid time off following the loss of a loved one and other life-changing events

Working here

Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what’s right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.

We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you’ll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

Accommodation

Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at accommodations@docusign.com.

If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at taops@docusign.com for assistance.

Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice

This position is not eligible for employment in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.

It's important to us that we build a talented team that is as diverse as our customers and where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging and thrive. We encourage great talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our open positions. Docusign is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes hiring decisions based on experience, skill, aptitude and a can-do approach. We will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected category.

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