Senior Director, Web Security Engineering

Role Overview:

The Senior Director of Software Development – Cybersecurity is a key technology leader responsible for overseeing the design, development, and delivery of secure, scalable, and innovative software systems across the enterprise. This role plays a central part in advancing the company’s transition from a device-centric security model to a consumer-centric, protection-first strategy.

The organization’s R&D strategy is anchored around three initial core protection pillars:

Personal (Virtual) Security – Identity protection, persona privacy, and digital safety controls
Web Security – Secure and threat-aware browsing experiences across consumer contexts
Device Security – Enhanced protection for desktop and mobile operating environments

Each pillar is staffed by dedicated engineering teams responsible for delivering end-to-end security capabilities and maintaining an ongoing protection roadmap. These roadmaps evolve continuously to meet emerging threats and ensure that users always feel confidently protected.

The Web Security pillar is a strategic focus area and critical growth domain for this role. As AI-driven threats become increasingly dynamic and sophisticated, the Senior Director will guide teams in developing proactive, adaptive, and data-informed protection mechanisms that secure access to web experiences and digital interactions.

This is a Hybrid position located in Frisco, TX. You will be required to be onsite on an as-needed basis, typically 1 to 6 times a month. We are only considering candidates within a commutable distance to one of the two locations and are not offering relocation assistance at this time.

About the role:

Strategic Leadership & Vision:

• Lead the engineering direction for one or more protection pillars, with immediate emphasis on Web Security innovation and capability expansion.

• Translate the organization’s shift to consumer-centric protection into actionable development strategies and product execution plans.

• Collaborate closely with product management, threat intelligence, research teams, and executive stakeholders to shape long-term protection roadmaps. 

     

Software Development & Delivery:

• Oversee the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring secure design, high performance, and reliable delivery. 

• Guide the architecture and development of new protection services, leveraging emerging technologies, modern cloud-native patterns, and AI-assisted detection capabilities. 

• Ensure CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and release processes support high-velocity, secure, and high-quality delivery. 

     

Cybersecurity Innovation & Threat Response: 

• Actively evaluate emerging cybersecurity threats, particularly advanced AI-assisted attacks, phishing ecosystems, unsafe browsing patterns, exploit kits, and malicious scripting techniques.

• Drive continuous enhancement of protection capabilities, ensuring solutions anticipate and respond to evolving attacker behaviors. 

• Establish strong integration between development teams and internal research / threat intelligence to maintain real-time protection relevancy. 

     

Team & Culture Leadership:

• Lead and grow geographically distributed engineering teams across multiple specialized protection domains. 

• Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement, encouraging teams to challenge assumptions and pursue bold solutions. 

• Ensure teams remain focused on delivering impactful protection outcomes, rather than primarily supporting operational tasks such as A/B testing or messaging. 

     

Operational Excellence:

• Define and track KPIs for system reliability, security posture, product impact, and roadmap execution. 

• Manage organizational capacity planning, talent development, and vendor or platform partnerships.

• Support a flexible organizational structure that can expand to additional protection pillars as customer needs evolve. 

About you:

• 10+ years of software development leadership experience, including responsibility for security-focused or safety-critical systems.

• Proven success managing multi-site or distributed engineering teams in an enterprise environment.

• Strong understanding of web threat models, browser security, identity protection, and cloud-connected security architectures.

• Experience integrating AI and automation to enhance detection, threat response, and development efficiency.

• Excellent communication, leadership presence, and the ability to influ