Sr. Manager, Vulnerability & Configuration Management
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What you’ll do
As the Senior Manager, Vulnerability & Configuration Management, you will lead a proactive technical team to identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities and risks across cloud and on-premises environments. You’ll turn security tool outputs into real risk reduction through smart prioritization, rapid remediation, and tight governance. Partnering with teams like SRE and other security teams, you’ll embed controls into delivery pipelines. Success is measured by reducing high-risk backlog, faster remediation, fewer unknown assets, and minimized drift. This position is a people manager role reporting to the Director, Platform Security.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end pipeline for vulnerability findings, misconfigurations, and surface coverage, ensuring proactive risk identification and reduction
- Lead the management and reduction of Docusign’s internal and external attack surface for comprehensive visibility and rapid response
- Set control strategy, multi-year roadmap, risk appetite, and OKRs aligned with business objectives
- Streamline and standardize scan and discovery methods across all environments, optimizing tooling for efficiency and coverage
- Normalize and correlate security signals; ensure accurate ownership, automated ticketing, and verified remediation
- Lead fix campaigns and surge responses for major vulnerabilities, with clear communication and escalation
- Govern exceptions and compensating controls with time-boxed approvals and regular review
- Integrate vulnerability and configuration management with CI / CD, IaC, CSPM / KSPM, ASM, SIEM / SOAR, and reporting platforms
- Direct incident response and escalated events for critical vulnerabilities, ensuring swift investigation and remediation
- Publish executive dashboards and QBRs; present risk posture and recommendations to executive leadership
- Build, coach, and mentor a high-performing, domain-specialist team; manage on-call health, runbooks, and cross-training
- Own portfolio and budget, including prioritization, build vs. buy, and vendor management
- Establish and enforce standards, policy-as-code, and exception policies with expiries
- Ensure audit / regulatory readiness and deliver board-level reporting with trusted metrics
- Set and monitor SLOs for coverage, prioritization, MTTR, exception expiry, and drift limits
Job Designation
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.
What you bring
Basic
8+ years of experience in information security, with at least 5 years building and leading vulnerability, configuration, hardening, and attack surface management capabilities and teams6+ years of people management experience, including hiring, coaching, mentoring, growing, and retaining high-performing technical talentProven hands-on technical expertise, including the ability to code, review code, and review technical designs for security solutions and automationExperience in building, scaling, and maturing security capabilities through innovation and automationExperience operating SLO-backed security controls and platforms in production environmentsIntegration experience enabling seamless security at scale across multi-cloud, Kubernetes, and legacy / on-prem environmentsExperience with incident leadership, including triage, containment, remediation, and root cause analysis with evidenceExperience defining metrics and OKRs, builds dashboards, and defends decisions with dataExperience designing and enforcing standards and governance (e.g., policy-as-code, exception expiries)Proven ability to oversee risk-to-remediation pipelines, including KEV / EPSS prioritization, auto-routing, and verification of fixesTrack record of delivering complete coverage (scan / discovery / benchmark), reducing unknown assets, and achieving MTTR / SLA targetsAbility to attract, grow, and retain high-performing, domain-specialist teams to drive innovation and excellencePreferred
Clear written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present to executive and engineering audiencesStrong cross-functional influence with Product, Engineering, IT, and Compliance teamsDemonstrated experience building new security programs or platforms from the ground up (0→1 builder)Hands-on coding for automation and policy-as-code (e.g., Python, Go, TypeScript), with depth in IaC and PaC tools such as Terraform, CDK, OPA, or ConftestProven track record of driving measurable improvements in security coverage, response latency, and MTTR through innovation and automationStrong knowledge of hybrid and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, and legacy data centers), with experience using tools like Tenable, Microsoft Defender, and WizExperience designing and operating unified pipelines for vulnerability, configuration, and attack surface management, including deduplication, correlation, and verified-fix automationFamiliarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO, FedRAMP) and automating audit evidence collectionAbility to lead large-scale security replatforming, vendor optimization, and cost management initiativesExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive briefings, ADRs, and cross-functional collaboration with cloud security and other technical teamsWage Transparency
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 : $177,900.00 - $287,425.00 base salary
Illinois, Colorado, Massachusetts and Minnesota : $170,900.00 - $241,400.00 base salary
Washington, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (including NYC metro area) : $170,900.00 - $251,325.00 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).Benefits
Global benefits provide options for the following :
Paid Time Off : earned time off, as well as paid company holidays based on regionPaid Parental Leave : take up to six months off with your child after birth, adoption or foster care placementFull Health Benefits Plans : options for 100% employer paid and minimum employee contribution health plans from day one of employmentRetirement Plans : select retirement and pension programs with potential for employer contributionsLearning and Development : options for coaching, online courses and education reimbursementsCompassionate Care Leave : paid time off following the loss of a loved one and other life-changing eventsLife at Docusign
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.
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States Not Eligible for Employment
This position is not eligible for employment in the following states : Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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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