Senior Director of Business Applications, Chainguard
+ Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options
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Software supply chain security
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Software supply chain security
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the software supply chain secure by default.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of experience building, scaling, and leading GTM systems or business applications in high-growth B2B SaaS or cloud-native environments
- Deep, hands-on expertise with Salesforce architecture and implementation
- Strong working knowledge of Marketing Automation, Sales Engagement, Revenue Intelligence, Customer Success, and BI platforms (e.g., HubSpot, Outreach, Gong, ZoomInfo, Zendesk/Vitally, Sigma, or similar)
- Proven ability to design end-to-end GTM architectures, including data flows, integrations, analytics, and automation across the customer lifecycle
- Experience acting as a product owner for internal platforms, balancing stakeholder needs, technical feasibility, and business outcomes
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional, transformational initiatives that improve alignment between business strategy, systems, and processes
- A strong passion for automation, AI, and emerging technologies, with practical experience introducing innovation while maintaining system stability and trust
- Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence executives, partner across teams, and develop high-performing technical organizations
- Strong analytical skills, including experience with pipeline metrics, forecasting, data modeling, and executive-level reporting
- Comfort operating in ambiguity with a high bias for action, sound judgment, and ownership mentality
- Experience in security-conscious, compliance-driven environments is a plus
What the job involves
- Chainguard is looking for a visionary Senior Director of GTM Systems to build an AI-led technology ecosystem that powers our customer-facing teams
- You’ll lead the strategy, development, and management of core GTM software systems and align technology with business goals in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Own the vision, strategy, and execution of Chainguard’s global GTM systems and business applications, ensuring they scale with rapid growth and support Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Customer Success, and Revenue Operations
- Serve as the executive owner of the GTM tech stack, with Salesforce at the core, driving continuous optimization across lead-to-cash, quote-to-revenue, and customer lifecycle workflows
- Define and maintain a multi-year GTM systems roadmap, balancing near-term business priorities with long-term scalability, data integrity, and architectural excellence
- Lead the evaluation, implementation, and adoption of modern and AI-enabled GTM technologies, improving seller productivity, pipeline visibility, forecasting accuracy, and customer engagement
- Partner deeply with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Legal, Security, and Product leaders to translate business strategy into scalable system design and process automation
- Support data governance, reporting, and analytics across GTM systems, ensuring trusted metrics, high-quality data, and actionable insights for executive decision-making
- Oversee complex system integrations across CRM, marketing automation, sales engagement, customer success, billing, and data platforms, making thoughtful build/buy/partner decisions
- Establish best practices for release management, system reliability, change management, and compliance, aligned with Chainguard’s security and operational standards
- Act as a hands-on leader, with responsibility to build, mentor, and scale a high-performing GTM Systems / Business Applications team over time
- Operate as a strategic thought partner and escalation point, bringing a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and accountability to mission-critical initiatives
Our take
Developers rely on open source code and apps in their day to day work, but when the provenance of the code is unknown this creates potential weaknesses that cybercriminals can exploit. Chainguard exists to build security into the coding supply chain by making it possible for companies to enforce security policies based on auditable signatures baked into the code.
In the wake of huge cyber attacks, software supply chain security has been an area of major focus. However, most of this has surrounded the scanning and detection of threats. Chainguard's approach comes from the other end of the process, focusing on building security into the software itself.
Built by former engineers who are aware of developer workloads, Chainguard is designed to be easily installed and integrated into existing automation systems. The company has secured substantial funding, the latest of which will support more aggressive product and R&D spending as it looks to further boost sales.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2025
$280m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Apr 2025
$356m
SERIES D
Total funding: $892m
Company benefits
- Equity/stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
- Home office and internet stipend
- 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family
Company HQ
Everest, Kirkland, WA
Leadership
Dan Lorenc
(CEO & Co-Founder)Before co-founding Chainguard was a Software Engineer at Google, Disqus and Microsoft.
Kim Lewandowski
(CSO & Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Chainguard was a Product Manager with Google. Before that was the Head of Product & Engineering at Brit + Co and the founder of Spotwag.
Matthew Moore
(CTO & Co-Founder)Was a Software Engineer at VMware, Google and Microsoft.
Ville Aikas
(Distinguished Engineer & Co-founder)Was a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and a Software Engineer for Google and the University of Washingtom. Was previously Owner at VA Systems.
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