Sr Manager, Cyber Defense & Engineering

Gong Gong · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Information Security

This role is for a Sr. Manager of Cyber Defense & Engineering at Gong, focusing on architecting and scaling security foundations for a corporate environment that includes AI tools and AI/ML assets. The role involves leading a team, developing strategy, and implementing security controls across endpoints, identity, SaaS, email, collaboration, and network access, with a philosophy of enabling secure innovation rather than blocking it. The focus is on corporate security and enabling an AI-native workforce, not directly building AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. The strategy, operating model, and execution of Corporate Security Engineering within Gong’s Cyber Defense group.
  2. Leading the Corporate Security Engineering team and growing a high-performing organization with strong technical depth, execution rigor, and clear ownership.
  3. Endpoint security across a global macOS, Windows, and Linux fleet, including EDR coverage, sensor health, policy, exclusions, and hardening baselines with IT and MDM partners.
  4. Identity and access security, including SSO, phishing-resistant MFA, passwordless adoption, conditional access, device trust, privileged access management, joiner-mover-leaver controls, and service account hygiene.
  5. Security guardrails for employee use of AI tools, with an enablement-first mindset rather than a blanket-blocking approach.

Skills

Required

  • Cyber defense leadership
  • Security engineering
  • Team leadership
  • Endpoint security
  • Identity and access management
  • SaaS security
  • Zero trust architecture
  • Data protection
  • Vulnerability management
  • Security guardrails for AI tools

Nice to have

  • Experience with Gong's revenue intelligence platform
  • Experience in a high-growth tech company

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native workforce
  • AI tools
  • AI/ML assets