Director of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)

Job Description:

• As the Director of GRC, you are a revenue enabler and a cornerstone of our enterprise growth strategy.
• Transform compliance from a reactive exercise into a Continuous Assurance engine.
• Build a gold-standard compliance program that meets the highest regulatory bars and drives customer trust.
• Lead the end-to-end strategy for SOC 2 Type II and FedRAMP Moderate authorizations.
• Architect the expansion of our compliance program into new frameworks.
• Serve as the internal owner of our own platform implementation.
• Own and mature the company-wide security awareness and role-based training program.
• Establish and manage a process for responding to security questionnaires.
• Direct the assessment of all current and prospective third-party providers.
• Govern the annual penetration testing program and third-party security assessments.
• Define and maintain the response playbooks used for security events.

Requirements:

• Certification: CISSP is strictly required.
• Experience: 8+ years in GRC or Information Security leadership within a high-growth SaaS environment.
• Framework Expertise: Direct experience achieving or maintaining a FedRAMP Moderate ATO; deep familiarity with NIST 800-53 controls is essential.
• Incident Response: Proven ability to lead through security events and design robust response frameworks.
• Technical Literacy: Ability to discuss cloud architecture (AWS/Azure), IAM roles, and containerization with senior engineering and DevOps leads.
• Communication: High-level executive presence for board and customer reporting, paired with a "roll-up-your-sleeves" attitude required in a small, agile team.

Benefits:

• Annual compensation reviews + equity
• Unlimited PTO: strongly encouraged to unplug and recharge
• Health: coverage for medical, dental, and vision - employee and dependents
• 401K, which vests immediately, complete with a 4% company match
• 12 weeks of Parental leave and 1 year free diapers and wipes with Honest
• Annual company in-person events and quarterly in-person connects
• $500 home office stipend - at the time of hire. Any additional home office needs are requested as needed.
• $100 quarterly paid wellness stipend
• Pet insurance discount
• Slack channel notifications turn off after 5 pm based on your time zone
• Two Hypercharge weeks of rest where we close company-wide (July & Dec)

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