Available Location: Austin, USOverviewThe Security Third Party Risk Management Lead is a senior individual-contributor role. You will be the technical and operational leader for our Third Party Risk function - owning the execution and continuous improvement of vendor & data center security reviews, serving as the go-to subject matter expert for the team, and mentoring Third Party Risk Management Specialists as they deliver high-quality assessments at scale.
This role leads through expertise, coordination, and influence. You will set the operational bar for how the program runs day to day and make sure the team's work gets across the finish line. You will lead projects to improve our Security Third Party Risk Program, including setting the strategy, overseeing the project execution, and navigating roadblocks. You will represent the team and interface with Procurement and other key cross-functional partners.
You will also play an essential role in developing our Third Party Risk Management Specialists. While people-management responsibilities sit with the Director of Information Security GRC, you will mentor the team on assessment methodology, risk decisions, and best practices.
Key Deliverables- Own and drive the operational execution of our third party risk management program - vendor risk assessments, security contract terms, and continuous monitoring - ensuring work is completed efficiently and to a consistently high standard.
- Serve as the subject matter expert and go-to technical resource for vendor security review methodology, vendor tiering, and risk treatment decisions.
- Lead the vendor risk assessment process day to day, applying and refining the security policies and standards that govern different types of vendor engagements (e.g. cloud, contractor, software, hardware, data centers).
- Proactively identify inefficiencies in vendor security workflows and propose and implement improvements that increase effectiveness, quality, and scalability.
- Coordinate the team's operational work - running check-ins with the specialists to drive assessments, escalations, and projects across the finish line.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Third Party Risk Management Specialists on assessment methodology, risk decisions, tooling, and best practices.
- Make timely, well-reasoned decisions on risk findings and policy exceptions - assessing risk, compensating controls, and acceptable risk thresholds - and act as the escalation point for complex or ambiguous cases.
- Support negotiation of security contract terms with vendors by maintaining guidance for Contracts/Legal teams and helping resolve contract escalations.
- Act as a primary point of coordination with Sourcing, Contracts, Legal, Privacy, and Security teams across the vendor lifecycle - onboarding, implementation, monitoring, and offboarding - influencing how vendor security integrates into their processes.
- Support the design, implementation, and improvement of Procurement/GRC tools and AI workflows
- Report on third party risk posture and program operations to the Director, Information Security GRC, and security leadership.
Examples of skills, knowledge and experience- Experience typically gained in 8+ years working in Security GRC
- Deep, hands-on expertise operating a third party / vendor risk program end to end.
- Subject-matter expertise across security control frameworks - ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI, NIST 800-53.
- Solid understanding of security contract terms and vendor negotiation support.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor peers and provide technical guidance.
- A track record of identifying process inefficiencies and driving operational improvements at scale.
- Strong ability to influence and coordinate across cross-functional teams.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
