Director of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
Posted 2026-05-06
Remote, USA
Full-time
Immediate Start
- 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)