Echo Global Logistics

Cybersecurity GRC Program Lead

Echo Global Logistics$112K — $163K *
Chicago, IL 60629Remote in Chicago, IL
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in cybersecurity GRC, security risk, audit readiness, or compliance operations.
  • Strong experience operationalizing NIST CSF with knowledge of ISO 27001, SOX, and SOC 2.
  • Experience building security governance programs in complex enterprise environments.
  • Expertise in risk assessments, control design reviews, and exception management.
  • Strong understanding of third-party risk and supplier security reviews.
  • Ability to translate policy language into measurable operating practices.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the selection and operationalization of Echo's cybersecurity framework with NIST CSF 2.0.
  • Build and maintain a comprehensive control ownership model across various technology domains.
  • Translate existing policies into actionable measures, control expectations, and exception workflows.
  • Collaborate with technical teams to ensure governance expectations are practical and enforceable.
  • Facilitate enterprise risk and control assessments with a focus on control design and remediation.
  • Establish an evidence library structure for effective documentation processes.
  • Enhance security questionnaire workflows through standardized responses and clear ownership.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance options.
  • Flexible work hours and remote work opportunities.
  • Professional development and training programs.
  • Generous PTO and vacation policies.
  • Employee wellness programs.
Full Job Description
Echo is seeking a Cybersecurity GRC Program Lead to build the operating system for security governance, risk, controls, evidence, and exceptions across the enterprise. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can select and drive adoption of a primary cybersecurity framework, build the control ownership model, build & improve evidence operations, accelerate questionnaire throughput, and create practical governance mechanisms that work with real engineering and business teams.

This role is not limited to policy writing or audit coordination. It is intended to make security governance real and measurable across the enterprise by building practical operating mechanisms around risk, controls, evidence, exceptions, and stakeholder accountability. In the staffing plan, this role is explicitly intended to select and operationalize the primary framework, likely starting with NIST CSF 2.0 while mapping outward to ISO 27001 and other requirements for customer, audit, and international needs.

What you will do
  • Lead selection, adoption, and operationalization of Echo's primary cybersecurity framework and related standards structure, with NIST CSF 2.0 as the likely management layer
  • Build and maintain a control ownership model across Technology, Engineering, Platform, Network, EUC, Asset, Data, Integrations, and Security
  • Translate existing policies into measurable operating practices, control expectations, evidence requirements, review cadences, and exception workflows
  • Partner with security architecture, engineering, and operations teams to ensure that governance expectations are practical, technically grounded, and enforceable
  • Drive enterprise risk and control assessments, including facilitating discussions on control design, effectiveness, and remediation priorities
  • Build an evidence library structure while defining repeatable collection, review, reuse, and freshness cadences
  • Improve security questionnaire workflows through standardized responses, evidence reuse, service-level expectations, and clearer ownership
  • Coordinate third-party security intake and help define tiering, minimum security requirements, documentation expectations, and escalation paths
  • Partner with Internal Audit and business stakeholders on readiness efforts, compliance reviews, and operational audit support
  • Track policy exceptions, control gaps, remediation commitments, and overdue actions through closure, including clear owners and time bounds
  • Provide security governance input on supplier security requirements, contractual obligations, and ongoing review expectations
  • Produce reporting for leadership on framework maturity, control ownership, policy currency, evidence readiness, exception status, and risk trends
  • Lead the evolution to and support of continuous compliance capabilities to improve control visibility, evidence freshness, and audit readiness
  • Manage and evolve the organization's trust center, including published security documentation, customer-facing assurance materials, and the processes that keep content current and supportable


What success looks like

In the first 60 to 90 days, this role is expected to produce a framework decision package, define the control ownership model, stand up an evidence library structure, improve questionnaire operations, and establish practical workflows for exceptions and third-party intake. Over 12 months, success means framework adoption becomes measurable, control ownership is visible, evidence is reusable, customer and audit due diligence become less reactive, and policy exceptions and control gaps are actively managed.

What you bring
  • 7+ years in cybersecurity GRC, security risk, audit readiness, compliance operations, or related functions, with clear experience building or maturing governance operating models
  • Strong experience operationalizing NIST CSF and translating controls across frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOX, SOC 2, or similar frameworks
  • Experience building or maturing security governance programs in complex enterprise environments with multiple technical stakeholders
  • Experience with risk assessments, control design reviews, exception management, and remediation tracking
  • Strong understanding of third-party risk, supplier security reviews, security questionnaires, and governance workflows that scale beyond one-off reviews
  • Experience partnering with technical teams to influence architecture, engineering, and operations outcomes in a practical, technically credible way
  • Ability to turn policy and framework language into concrete operating practices, ownership expectations, and measurable evidence
  • Strong writing, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills

Preferred qualifications
  • Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, CTPAT, SOX or similar audit/readiness efforts
  • Experience with evidence management, control testing, internal audit coordination, or related assurance processes
  • Experience with continuous compliance platforms, including evidence automation, control monitoring, and audit readiness workflows
  • Experience managing a trust center or similar customer assurance portal and keeping security documentation current and reusable
  • Familiarity with enterprise technology environments spanning cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and application security domains


Why this role matters

Echo already has a policy foundation, including formal expectations for information security governance, access control, supplier security, and compliance review. What is needed now is a leader who can turn those policies into a durable governance operating system with clear ownership, evidence discipline, exception management, and measurable accountability.

Work environment/physical demands summary:

This job operates in an office environment and uses a computer, telephone and other office equipment as needed to perform duties. The noise level in the work environment is typical of that of an office with an open seating floor plan. The employee may encounter frequent interruptions throughout the work day. The employee is regularly required to sit, talk, or hear.

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Benefits

For more information about our benefit offerings, please visit our careers page at https://www.echo.com/company/careers.

Compensation
$112,498.00-163,571.00 per year

This role is eligible for a bonus that is based on a combination of personal and business performance.

About Echo Global Logistics

Echo Global Logistics is a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services. The company offers a wide range of services, including truckload, less-than-truckload, intermodal, and expedited shipping, as well as managed transportation, supply chain analytics, and freight audit and payment services. Echo's clients include shippers of all sizes, from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies, across a variety of industries. The company's proprietary technology platform, EchoShip, provides real-time visibility and control over shipments, helping clients optimize their supply chains and reduce costs. Echo has been recognized for its innovative technology and customer service, and has received numerous awards and accolades.
Learn more about Echo Global Logistics
Size
9 employees
Market Cap
$1.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$15.8 million
Founded
2015
5 Year Trend
+10.7%
Revenue
$2.5 billion
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