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Sr. Compliance Specialist, Governance, Risk and Compliance

HashiCorp
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/12/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/4/2025

About the team

HashiCorp has a dedicated Compliance team who supports HashiCorp's compliance attestations and certification, as well as policy and governance. The compliance team plays a critical role in ensuring that the organization adheres to policies, requirements and contractual commitments. This team is responsible for implementing and maintaining compliance frameworks, supporting external audits, policy review and refresh, among many other key compliance activities. The Compliance team works closely in collaboration with many teams within HashiCorp, such as R&D, IT, and other Security members.

What you'll do (responsibilities)

  • Help oversee and mentor existing compliance analyst(s)
  • Work with external auditors and controls owners on SOC 2 and ISO 27001 / 17 / 18 including :

Ensure contracting is in place with external auditor to conduct attestation / certifications on an annual basis

  • Confirm scope of SOC 2 and ISO audits
  • Prepare the ISO scope documentation and Statement of Applicability (SOA)
  • Develop project plan including key milestones and timelines, working with HashiCorp's auditor
  • Identify and confirm control owners before the audit begins
  • Prepare control owners for external assessments
  • Prepare internal communications, including weekly status updates that outline the status of the program, potential risks and call to action items
  • Host walkthroughs and prepare and / or review walkthrough agendas
  • Perform the final review of evidence that is gathered by control owners before submitting to the auditors
  • Monitoring and tracking control exceptions, if applicable, and help teams create remediation plans for gaps / audit findings
  • Development of the system description, including working with relevant control owners for input
  • Prepare and facilitate regular management reviews as part of ISO 27001
  • Provide program oversight of the annual ISO Internal Audit
  • Maintain and document the scope / boundaries of the compliance program (cloud accounts, repositories, Github teams, etc.) including updates, removals and additions.
  • Identify and propose improvement to the Security Policy and participate in the annual Security Policy review
  • Support requests received for Security Policy exceptions, including following up on approved exceptions expiring.
  • Maintain documentation such as HashiCorp's Common Control Framework (CCF), including developing new controls, completeness and accuracy of the information including framework mappings
  • Work with controls owners to identify opportunities for automating manual processes and controls
  • Develop, maintain and deliver on control owner enablement trainings
  • Provide input on program metrics and collect and report on metrics data
  • Support other GRC tasks as required
  • What you'll need (basic qualifications)

  • Minimum of 8 years of related professional compliance and controls program experience
  • Previous experience in a cloud environment, preferably AWS and / or Azure
  • Advanced level knowledge either SOC 2 and ISO 27001
  • Experience leading internal and / or external audits, working as the liaison between auditors and the business
  • Comfortable working with both deeply technical and non-technical resources
  • Flexible in daily hours (e.g. willingness to work longer hours during end of quarter and peak periods, and audit)
  • Highly responsive
  • Ability to prioritize and track multiple projects and tasks in parallel
  • What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)

  • Experience working in a large, multi-cloud environment
  • Deep understanding of common security compliance frameworks, attestations and certifications
  • Previous experience at a technology or SaaS company in a similar role
  • Experience working with OSCAL
  • LI-Remote

    Individual pay within the range will be determined based on job related-factors such as skills, experience, and education or training.

    The base pay range for this role in the SF Bay Area / NYC area is :

    182,800 - $215,000 USD

    The base pay range for this role in California (excluding SF Bay Area), New York (excluding NYC), Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, Washington D.C., or Maryland is :

    167,500 - $197,100 USD

    The base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is :

    152,300 - $179,200 USD

    Salary : $152,300 - $179,200

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