Staff Security Analyst, Governance and Trust

Role overview

Lead the compliance and customer trust work for a security-focused technology organization. You will run external examinations, manage customer security diligence and third-party risk, and guide a small team as the function grows. The work emphasizes reliable evidence drawn from systems, unified controls, and automation, with a senior practitioner accountable for judging whether outputs stand up to customer and auditor scrutiny.

Responsibilities - Coordinate external examinations end to end, including evidence schedules, sampling, auditor interactions, readiness reviews, and follow-up remediation. - Work across People, IT, Infrastructure, Engineering, Legal, and Sales to secure evidence, resolve gaps, and keep assessments moving. - Own responses to customer questionnaires, audits, and multi-stage security reviews; maintain response expectations and decide what information to provide. - Run third-party risk operations, including vendor intake, risk tiering, assessments, dispositions, and tracking critical suppliers and agreements. - Define and review the quality of automated questionnaire and vendor-triage workflows, maintaining validated response content. - Turn recurring requests and findings into reusable trust materials, control improvements, and corrective actions; mentor analysts and report outcomes and delays.

Requirements

The available source describes a senior practitioner role but does not provide a complete formal list of required qualifications. It does indicate a need to lead compliance examinations, customer security diligence, and vendor risk operations, and to assess evidence and automation outputs critically while coordinating across teams.

Nice to have

The source references work across frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and Cyber Essentials, with additional sector and regional certifications as the program expands.

Benefits and work setup

The role is remote-first, with team meetups, twice-yearly destination gatherings, and a monthly stipend for coworking, phone, and internet costs. Benefits include stock options, fully covered health, vision, and dental premiums for employees and dependents, flexible time off, and paid parental leave. The stated base salary range is $151,000–$178,000 USD.