Senior Manager Security Compliance

As a Senior Manager Security Compliance at GitLab you'll lead and mature our security compliance function while helping the company meet the needs of customers auditors and regulators across a growing set of security and compliance requirements. Reporting to the VP of Security Assurance you'll bring deep expertise in security frameworks risk-based thinking and team leadership to guide our certification strategy and strengthen how we manage compliance across the business.

In this role you'll work across Security Legal IT Product and Engineering to evolve a compliance program that supports both strong security outcomes and business growth. You'll help shape a roadmap that keeps pace with emerging regulations and frameworks while also improving how the team works through automation artificial intelligence and scalable processes. This role is a strong fit for someone who can balance strategic leadership with operational excellence and who sees compliance as an important customer trust and sales enabler.

Some examples of our projects:

• Leading and expanding GitLab's security certification portfolio across commercial public sector and industry-specific frameworks while improving the way control testing and assurance activities are performed
• Driving automation and AI-enabled improvements for risk and compliance workflows so the team can spend less time on manual work and more time on high-value risk analysis and program maturity

• Lead and mentor a team focused on security compliance providing direction support and clear priorities while building a high-performing function.
• Oversee and expand GitLab's certification portfolio across frameworks such as ISO 27001/17/18 ISO 42001 Service Organization Control 2 (SOC 2) Payment Card Industry (PCI) TiSAX Cyber Essentials and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders in IT Security Legal Product and Engineering to integrate governance risk and compliance requirements into business processes and technical systems.
• Drive automation within the function by using scripting coding and AI-enabled approaches to improve governance risk and compliance workflows including compliance-as-code and policy-as-code practices.
• Monitor regulatory changes emerging frameworks and industry trends and use those insights to help shape the team's roadmap and prepare the business for new requirements.
• Manage relationships with third-party auditors assessors and consultants during activities such as external audits certification reviews and penetration tests.
• Strengthen the team's security metrics and reporting practices including preparing and facilitating regular business reviews and giving leadership clear visibility into progress and risk.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and thought partner by delivering guidance training and security-focused content for internal teams customers and senior stakeholders while helping strengthen GitLab's voice in the broader security market.

• Extensive experience in security compliance audit or related governance risk and compliance work including experience supporting external audits.
• Deep knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 ISO 27001 FedRAMP and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with public sector or FedRAMP experience preferred.
• Experience leading teams and developing people with the ability to set direction manage priorities and build strong partnerships across a distributed organization.
• Strong understanding of cloud security software as a service (SaaS) security models and DevSecOps practices with the ability to apply that knowledge in a fast-moving technology environment.
• A risk-based mindset that goes beyond checklist compliance and focuses on meaningful control design testing and continuous improvement.
• Comfort using automation scripting or AI-enabled approaches to reduce manual work and improve the scale and efficiency of compliance programs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain complex technical and regulatory topics clearly to auditors customers executives and cross-functional partners.
• Relevant certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or similar credentials are highly desirable.

Due to government requirements you must be a United States Citizen (defined as any individual who is a citizen of the United States by law birth or naturalization) to fill this position.

The Security Assurance organization helps GitLab build and maintain trust by strengthening how we approach security compliance and assurance across the company. Within that group the security compliance function works at the intersection of customer trust regulatory readiness operational rigor and business growth. The team partners broadly across GitLab to help ensure our controls certifications and assurance activities support both secure operations and the needs of a global business.

What We Do

GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together they automate repetitive tasks to plan build secure test deploy and maintain software. With GitLab software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea.What started in 2011 as an open source project to help one team of programmers collaborate is now the intelligent orchestration platform millions of people use to deliver software faster more efficiently while strengthening security and compliance.Since the beginning we've been firm believers in remote work open source DevSecOps and iteration. We get up and log on in the morning to work alongside the GitLab community to deliver new innovations every month that help teams and their AI agents ship great code faster.

Why Work With Us

GitLab is where careers accelerate innovation flourishes and every voice is valued. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

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