Asana

Security Compliance Lead

Asana$158K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) or related fields, including internships.
  • Foundational knowledge of compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, or FedRAMP.
  • Ability to engage with various teams (Engineering, IT, Legal) to explain compliance needs.
  • Organized and deadline-driven, managing multiple tasks and time-sensitive obligations.
  • Clear communicator who can simplify compliance requirements for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Exposure to compliance automation or related tools is a plus, but a willingness to learn is key.
  • Curiosity about SaaS engineering and technical contexts behind controls.

Responsibilities

  • Support maintenance and enhancement of Asana's control framework for compliance standards.
  • Engage with teams to address control gaps and drive remediation efforts to completion.
  • Build strong relationships across the business for shared accountability in compliance efforts.
  • Provide visibility into controls maturity for senior leadership through scoring and reporting.
  • Coordinate and track compliance audits, liaising with auditors and managing evidence requests.
  • Own monthly FedRAMP submissions, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery.
  • Document evidence collection processes to maintain transparency and operability across the team.

Benefits

  • Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits.
  • Career coaching & support.
  • Inclusive family building benefits.
  • Long-term savings or retirement plans.
  • In-office culinary options for dietary preferences.
Full Job Description
Role Overview

As a Security Risk and Compliance Lead you will play a hands-on role in maturing and operating Asana's compliance and certification programme-with a primary focus on FedRAMP Continuous Monitoring and authorization activities. This role sits at the intersection of traditional GRC work and compliance engineering: you will own our FedRAMP programme day-to-day, while also supporting our broader audit cycles and control frameworks across SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with early-career GRC experience who has a strong grounding in FedRAMP and is excited to grow their technical skills in a high-growth SaaS environment. You will partner closely with Security Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and R&D to ensure our FedRAMP obligations are met with rigour, our controls are effective, and our certifications are maintained.

This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.
What You'll Achieve

FedRAMP Continuous Monitoring
  • Own the monthly FedRAMP ConMon package submission, ensuring it is accurate, complete, and delivered on time every month.
  • Track and drive completion of all timebound FedRAMP requirements by working closely with Engineering, People, and other responsible teams.
  • Maintain a clear calendar of FedRAMP deliverables and proactively flag risks to timelines, escalating where needed to ensure nothing slips.
  • Serve as the internal subject matter expert for FedRAMP, acting as the day-to-day point of contact for FedRAMP-related queries from internal teams and helping them understand their obligations and what good looks like.
  • Proactively engage with a wide range of teams-including Engineering, IT, and People-to work through FedRAMP controls maturity activities, close existing gaps, and drive remediation efforts to completion with clear documentation of progress.

Controls Maturity & Broader Certifications
  • Support the maintenance and continuous improvement of Asana's broader control framework across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other applicable standards.
  • Support external compliance audits end-to-end: coordinating evidence requests, liaising with auditors, and tracking findings through to closure.
  • Contribute to controls maturity scoring and reporting, providing ongoing visibility into programme health for senior leadership.
  • Build strong working relationships across the business so that control owners feel supported and accountability is shared, not siloed within the compliance team.

Evidence Collection & Automation
  • Own evidence collection workflows within our GRC platform, ensuring controls are reliably mapped, evidence is current, and audit artefacts are ready year-round-with particular attention to FedRAMP requirements.
  • Document evidence collection procedures so that processes are transparent, auditable, and maintainable by the broader team.
  • Where possible, identify opportunities to automate repetitive evidence-gathering tasks-curiosity and initiative here will be valued, though this is not a core requirement of the role.
About You
  • 5+ years of experience in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), information security, or a closely related field-internships and co-ops count.
  • Hands-on experience with FedRAMP-ideally including ConMon, evidence collection, or working within a FedRAMP Moderate or High boundary. This is the most important qualification for this role.
  • Foundational knowledge of broader security compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or NIST CSF is a plus, but depth in FedRAMP matters most.
  • Organised and deadline-driven: you can manage multiple workstreams, track time-sensitive obligations (like monthly FedRAMP submissions), and keep audit artefacts tidy without being reminded.
  • Comfortable engaging with a wide variety of teams-Engineering, People, IT, Legal-to explain compliance requirements, gather evidence, and build the relationships needed to close control gaps.
  • A clear communicator who can translate compliance requirements into plain language for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Exposure to compliance automation or evidence collection tooling (GRC platforms, scripting, API integrations) is a plus, but not essential-curiosity and a willingness to grow technically matter more.
  • Curious about how modern SaaS engineering works-comfortable asking questions and learning the technical context behind a control.
  • Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.
What We'll Offer

Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value, which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit.

For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $158,000-$180,000. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include equity and benefits. Speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more.

We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include:
  • Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
  • Career coaching & support
  • Inclusive family building benefits
  • Long-term savings or retirement plans
  • In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences

These are just some of the benefits we offer, and benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations.

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About Asana

Asana is a web and mobile work management platform designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work. It is produced by the San Francisco based company of the same name. The company was founded in 2008 by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein. The product launched commercially in April 2012. In September 2020, the company was valued at $5.5 billion following its direct listing.
Learn more about Asana
Size
1,200 employees
Market Cap
$2.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$211.7 million
Founded
2008
Revenue
$227 million
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