Reports to: Senior Director of GRC
Location: Scottsdale, AZ / Dallas, TX / Remote (US)
Synonymous Business Title (s): Security & Compliance Director
Overview:
TheDirectorofSecurity Compliance leads the team responsible for planning, executing, and sustaining Blue Yonders portfolio of information security and IT compliance certifications and attestations. Reporting to theSenior Directorof GRC, you will own the end-to-end auditand compliancelifecycle scoping, evidence, control operation, auditor management, and reporting across a multi-product, multi-cloud environment.
You will lead a team of compliance professionals delivering ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 22301, ISO 42001, SOC 1, SOC 2, and Sarbanes-Oxley / IT General Controls (ITGC) audits, alongside other information securitybased assessments across the Blue Yonder portfolio of services. Just as importantly, you will mature how we operate these programs replacing point-in-time scrambles with continuous, evidence-backed control operation, shared control frameworks, and automation that lets the team spend more time on judgment and less on collection.
Scope/Responsibilities:
- Lead the compliance teamresponsible for delivering Blue Yonders information security certifications and attestations, including ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 22301, ISO 42001, SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOX / ITGC setting direction, priorities, and operating cadence.
- Own the end-to-end audit lifecycleacross the portfolio: scoping, control mapping, evidence collection, control operation, auditor coordination, issue remediation, and final reporting.
- Manage external auditors and certification bodiesas the primary point of accountability negotiating scope, timelines, and sampling, and driving clean, defensible outcomes.
- Rationalize the control environmentby building and maintaining a shared, cross-framework control set that lets a single control satisfy multiple obligations, reducing duplicate evidence and audit fatigue.
- Mature SOX / ITGC compliancein partnership with Internal Audit, Finance, and control owners ensuring IT general controls over financially relevant systems are designed, operating, and evidenced effectively.
- Stand up and scale emerging frameworksincluding ISO 42001 for AI management systems, aligning Blue Yonders AI governance and responsible-AI practices with certification requirements.
- Drive continuous complianceby championing automation, evidence pipelines,process improvements,and GRC tooling that shift the program from periodic firefighting toward always-audit-ready operation.
- Partneracross the businesswith Engineering, Product, Cloud Platform, Privacy, Legal, Internal Audit, and Customer Trust to embed control requirements into how services are built and run.
- Translate compliance into business valueby preparing clear reporting for executives, customers, and regulators,maturing support model for customer audits,and by enabling Sales and Customer Trust with current, accurate attestations and evidence.
- Develop the teamthrough coaching, clear ownership, and career growth building bench strength across frameworks and cloud platforms.
What Youll Do:
- Proven leadershipof a security compliance, IT audit, or GRC function in a complex, multi-product SaaS or technology environment, including direct management of a team of compliance professionals.
- Deep, hands-on expertisedelivering the audits central to this role ISO 27001, SOC 1, and SOC 2 with demonstrable experience managing certification bodies and audit firms end to end.
- Working knowledge across the broader framework portfolioincluding ISO 27701 (privacy), ISO 22301 (business continuity), ISO 42001 (AI management systems), and Sarbanes-Oxley / ITGC.
- Cloud fluencyacross the platforms that run our services Microsoft Azure (preferred), with familiarity across AWS, GCP, and OCI, and an understanding of how cloud shared-responsibility models shape control scope and evidence.
- Practical commandandcontrol frameworksand the ability to map many overlapping requirements to a single, coherent control environment rather than running each audit as a silo.
- A continuous-compliance mindsetwith real experience applying automation, evidence pipelines, and GRC platforms to scale audit readiness.
- Strong cross-functional influenceable to work credibly with Engineering and Product on technical controls while communicating clearly with executives, auditors, and customers.
- Sound judgment on riskbalancing rigor withpragmatism andknowing when a control gap is afinding to remediateversus a risk to accept and document.
What Were Looking For:
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 10+ yearsof experience insecurity compliance, audit, or information security within an enterprise SaaS environment.
- Deep expertiseof Securityand IT complianceframeworks (SOC2, ISO 27001, ISO 22301,SOX ITGCs,etc.).
- Experiencedeveloping, maturing,or transformingcompliance programs in a cloud and/or SaaS environment.
- Strong collaborator, working with technical and non-technical stakeholdersat variouslevels of leadership.
- Strong organizational and project management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with GDPR and other data privacy frameworks, and the ability to operationalize privacy obligations into auditable controls (e.g., via ISO 27701).
- Familiarity with FedRAMP and U.S. public-sector security requirements, and experience preparing environments for government-grade authorization.
- Strong grounding in the NIST family of standards, including NIST SP 800-53 and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and experience mapping across frameworks.
- Familiarity withcompliance automation and GRC platforms.
- Experience leading a geographically distributed compliance team
- Relevant certifications such as CISA, CISM, CISSP, CIPP, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor / Lead Implementer, or equivalent.
- Experience in supply chain, logistics, and/or enterprise SaaS, operating in a fast-moving, AI-driven product organization.
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The annual salary range for this position is $167,075.96 - $216,924.03
The salary range information provided, reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual salary will be commensurate with skills, experience, certifications or licenses and other relevant factors. In addition, this role will be eligible to participate in either the annual performance bonus or commission program, determined by the nature of the position.
At Blue Yonder, we care about the wellbeing of our employees and those most important to them. This is reflected in our robust benefits package and options that includes:
Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision
401K with Matching
Flexible Time Off
Corporate Fitness Program
A variety of voluntary benefits such as; Legal Plans, Accident and Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance and much more
