Sr. Director, Security

AI AT ZAPIER At Zapier https://zapier.com/about, we build and use automation every day to make work more efficient, creative, and human. So if you’re using AI tools while applying here - that’s great! We just ask that you use them responsibly and transparently. Check out our guidance on How to Collaborate with AI During Zapier’s Hiring Process https://zapier.com/l/jobs/ai-at-zapier, including how to use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or others during our hiring process - and when not to. Location: North America We’re looking for a Sr. Director of Security (Head of Security) to lead the Security organization at Zapier. This is our most senior security leadership role, with room for scope and recognition to grow, depending on the impact of the leader we hire. Zapier is an AI-forward company building AI-enabled products on top of frontier models, and a new generation of more capable, more autonomous models is reshaping both the products we ship and the threats we defend against. 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 operate strategically and hands-on: setting direction while also going deep enough technically to audit plans, challenge assumptions, and help drive strong security decisions for an AI-native SaaS platform that sits in the middle of our customers' most important workflows. You will lead a team of Application Security (Product Security), Infrastructure Security, Detection & Response, and GRC engineers. You will 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. About You - You are a pragmatic, engineering-oriented SaaS security leader who thinks like an engineer. You bring a hypothesis-driven, systems

Department: Engineering; Team: Engineering