Governance, Risk & Compliance - Lead

Who are we?

Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines.  Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.

Smarsh is a global leader in digital communications capture, archiving, and oversight. Our Governance, Risk, and Compliance function is built to scale through systems, automation, and engineering-driven control frameworks.

This role focuses on building and operating the systems that make governance real in a production environment. You will work at the intersection of Security, Engineering, and GRC to design, implement, and validate controls as part of normal system operation rather than after-the-fact compliance activities.

You will be responsible for developing control validation workflows, improving evidence automation, and ensuring strong alignment between policy intent and system behavior. The role requires strong systems thinking and the ability to translate compliance requirements into practical, testable implementations.

Core Responsibilities

Control Engineering & Validation

Design and implement security controls as testable, system-aligned mechanisms across cloud and application environments

Translate regulatory and framework requirements into measurable control logic and validation checks

Build and operate control validation workflows, including continuous testing and monitoring

Identify and resolve gaps between documented controls and actual system behavior

GRC Automation & Tooling

Develop and improve GRC tooling integrations and platform capabilities

Automate evidence collection from cloud platforms, security tools, and internal systems

Design scalable workflows for continuous control monitoring and audit readiness

Improve data quality, structure, and traceability across GRC systems

Evidence & Audit Engineering

Design reusable, structured evidence models aligned to control requirements

Build automated evidence pipelines that support audit readiness

Ensure evidence is generated at the source and remains consistent over time

Maintain audit trails that demonstrate control effectiveness

Risk & Control Integration

Integrate control assurance outputs into risk management systems

Maintain clear linkage between controls, risks, and remediation activities

Improve visibility into control health and organizational risk posture

Support structured remediation workflows with clear ownership and tracking

Governance Systems & Process Design

Design and refine governance workflows that align with engineering practices

Contribute to Policy as Code and structured governance approaches

Standardize how policies and controls are implemented across systems

Improve consistency and repeatability across GRC operations

Regulatory & Compliance Engineering

Translate regulatory requirements into system-aligned control implementations

Ensure compliance obligations are implemented as measurable and testable mechanisms

Partner with Legal and Security to align regulatory interpretation with technical execution

Third-Party & External Assurance

Support third-party security assessments using scalable and repeatable evaluation approaches

Align vendor risk processes with internal control frameworks

Contribute to client assurance through standardized, automation-ready evidence

What We’re Looking For

Experience

6 to 8 years of experience in GRC, security engineering, or control assurance within SaaS or regulated environments

Experience designing and implementing security controls in technical environments

Hands-on experience with automation, evidence systems, or control validation workflows

Strong understanding of cloud platforms and modern application architectures

Technical & Analytical Capability

Ability to translate compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, and NIST into system-level implementations

Experience working with APIs, logs, or structured data to validate controls

Comfort with scripting or automation such as Python or similar

Strong systems thinking and ability to connect controls, risks, and infrastructure

Ways of Working

Focus on building scalable, repeatable solutions instead of manual processes

Ability to collaborate across Engineering, Security, and GRC teams

Clear and structured communication in both technical and governance contexts

Bias toward ownership and continuous improvement

About our culture

Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.