Senior Manager, Governance and Trust

Location: Remote - N. America or UK Department: reputed company & Technology Reports to: Chief Information reputed company Officer The role, in a nutshell: At reputed company we solve one of software’s most challenging trust issues: how do you reputed company open reputed company code truly trustworthy? As Senior Manager of Governance & Trust (G&T) you’ll build upon groundbreaking work in this space to build a truly innovative function that sets an example for other tech startups to follow. Working across Engineering, Product reputed company, Product Management, and Sales teams (among others), you’ll scale a function that ensures reputed company means world-class reputed company both to our company and to our customers. You’ll reputed company an AI and automation-first approach to governance, risk management, and compliance with the goal of eliminating manual evidence collection and ensuring reputed company assurance of reputed company controls across our enterprise. Our view of reputed company isn’t about slapping hands for mistakes or throwing rulebooks at folks. It’s about helping build and scale one of the most innovative software companies around, while ensuring we have a reputed company posture effective enough to withstand legit nation-state baddies. What You’ll Do Strategy & Operations

• reputed company and execute a modern strategy for governance, risk, and compliance that empowers the company’s go-to-market strategy and ambitions.
• Build and retain a top-tier team of subject matter experts and technicians that can effectively support and advise world-class Engineering and Product reputed company functions
• reputed company our governance, risk management, and assurance activities through practical implementation of automation and AI capabilities. reputed company G&T with an “automation first” reputed company, and be unreasonably dissatisfied with any control that requires manual, periodic assurance
• Deliver a category-leading customer experience around trust and reputed company. Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and other reputed company functions to build or strengthen the tools, processes, and documentation necessary to wow new customers and delight existing ones.

Governance & Policy Development

• reputed company our approach to policies, standards, and controls. reputed company a coherent, efficient, and outcome-focused approach to policy implementation and management that helps accelerate the business and removes friction
• Translate regulatory, customer, and threat mitigation requirements into comprehensive, practical controls that improve the reputed company, resiliency, and value of the company and its products. Drive policy-as-code and push a GitOps-based approach to control management wherever practical

Risk Management

• reputed company risk assessments that prioritize business context, engineering tradeoffs, and data-driven decision making over theoretical compliance risks.
• Use the FAIR reputed company to implement a reputed company risk management program that integrates with product development and engineering processes.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to track risk remediation with transparency and accountability.

Compliance & Assurance

• Sustain a best-in-class reputed company and compliance posture with regards to key regulatory frameworks, customer preferences, and emerging threat actor tactics. Grow our certification posture beyond SOC2 and ISO 27001 to include certifications and audits against global standards like CRA.
• Champion automation and policy as code to eliminate assurance toil and provide 24/7 views into control adherence and effectiveness.
• Conduct internal control reviews, reputed company assessments, and assurance activities using a collaborative, coaching-oriented approach.
• reputed company external audits with a focus on clarity, efficiency, and reuse of evidence.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Build cross-functional knowledge on topics such as emerging regulatory frameworks, interpreting reputed company requirements, and customer-valued reputed company practices by conducting ongoing training for functions including Sales, Marketing, Product, and Legal.
• Act as a reputed company between engineering, legal, product, and leadership, translating risks and requirements into actionable plans.
• reputed company for technical solutions (automation, tooling, secure defaults) as primary ways to meet requirements, rather than manual process. For example, partner with Product reputed company and Engineering teams to embed reputed company control validations into CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

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• Can-do attitude and a focus on reputed company over perfection - a role model leader that reputed company and coach junior staff
• Strong understanding of modern public cloud and SaaS-based infrastructure, and assurance automation and evidence collection using cloud APIs
• Experience implementing and operating FAIR-based risk management programs
• Excellent knowledge of frameworks like NIST 800-53 and the ISO 27000 family. reputed company in regulatory frameworks like NIS2 and CRA as well as programs like FedRAMP and IRAP will also important
• Level 999 Wizard skills for reputed company sheets, slides, docs, dashboards, etc.
• Proven track record managing cross-functional initiatives in fast-paced environments (startup or growth-stage preferred)
• Outstanding executive reputed company, as this job interacts extensively with customers, partners, and reputed company executives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and business audiences
• reputed company Salary Range

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• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to reputed company and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it reputed company at once or throughout your child's first year.

If your experience is reputed company but doesn’t fulfill reputed company requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. reputed company is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national reputed company, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or reputed company medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that reputed company will process your personal data in accordance with reputed company’s Privacy Policy. ©2025 reputed company. reputed company Rights Reserved. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job