What you'll do- Own independent audits and regulatory programs including ISO 42001, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and related frameworks.
- Drive scope definition, readiness assessments, auditor engagement, remediation planning, and executive level reporting.
- Develop a strong working understanding of Sierra's Conversational AI Platform, model providers, and cloud architecture. Partner with Platform and Agent Engineering to design and operationalize controls across multi cloud environments, infrastructure, inference and data platforms.
- Build a centralized and evolving security controls library mapped to compliance, regulatory and customer requirements. Continuously assess control effectiveness, identify gaps, prioritize risk, and drive remediation that strengthens Sierra's security and compliance posture.
- Define and enforce security baselines for cloud infrastructure, containerized workloads, Kubernetes, identity, encryption, logging, and network security controls. Partner with engineering teams to integrate security requirements into configuration and change management.
- Design and operate automated compliance workflows using AI, infrastructure as code, and security tooling to reduce manual effort, improve control assurance, and scale with platform evolution.
Who you'll work withYou will act as a strategic partner to Platform, Product, Agent Development, Legal, and GTM, ensuring security and compliance requirements are embedded into architecture decisions, product roadmaps, and go to market execution while supporting product velocity and technical complexity.
What you'll bring- 8+ years of experience in security compliance or GRC or security adjacent roles within fast growing technology companies.
- Deep expertise in security compliance frameworks including ISO 42001, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and similar regulatory environments.
- A systems oriented and engineering focused GRC mindset, with the ability to reason about cloud architecture, data flows, and control effectiveness alongside engineers.
- Experience owning complex audits and driving risk based remediation across distributed teams.
- Hands-on experience with multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Strong experience implementing and automating security controls across cloud infrastructure, configuration management, container security, Kubernetes, encryption, identity, and authentication systems.
- Ability to clearly communicate compliance requirements internally to engineering teams and externally to customers in a technically credible way.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISA, PCI ISA, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, or equivalent experience.
Even better...- Experience supporting AI platforms, fintech, healthcare, or other highly regulated environments.
- Familiarity with global regulatory environments including GDPR, DORA, the EU AI Act, and emerging security and AI governance requirements across APAC regions.
- Experience supporting public sector or FedRAMP aligned environments.
Why join us?You will operate at the center of AI systems, cloud infrastructure, and global compliance, shaping how security controls are designed and scaled for modern AI platforms. This role offers high ownership, deep technical partnership with engineering, and the opportunity to define what strong GRC looks like at Sierra.
What we offerWe want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:
- Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
- Parental leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
- Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
- Free alphorn lessons
These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans. Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.
