Senior Director, GRC
OktaOkta is a
San Francisco, United States$264,000 - $363,000 USDDirector
Legal & Compliance
About the role
TL;DR
Lead and scale GRC Security, driving AI transformation and managing cyber risk and compliance.
- •Okta is seeking a visionary Senior Director, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) to lead and scale its world-class GRC Security organization.
- •This role focuses on building engineering-forward, automated, and AI-driven GRC programs to operate in an evolving AI world.
- •Key Responsibilities Drive AI-first transformation in GRC operations.
- •Operationalize Okta’s AI risk and governance framework.
- •Lead enterprise-wide cyber risk identification, prioritization, treatment, and quantification.
- •Maintain and expand Okta’s global compliance posture across major security and privacy frameworks.
- •Direct high-impact vendor risk assessment programs.
- •Requirements 10+ years of progressive leadership in Security GRC within a high-growth SaaS, cloud-first, or enterprise technology environment.
- •Demonstrated understanding of AI/ML governance challenges, including generative and agentic AI security.
- •Extensive track record managing compliance for enterprise cloud environments.
- •Deep knowledge of risk management methodologies.
- •Track record of recruiting, mentoring, and retaining high-performing GRC professionals.
Required skills
LLMsSOC 2GDPRHIPAAIAMSSOMFACI/CDDockerKubernetesTerraform
Nice-to-have skills
PythonJavaScriptSQLOpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini APILangChain
Domain expertise
cybersecuritydeveloper-toolsai
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptSQLBashAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDOAuthJWTSAMLOWASPSOC 2GDPRHIPAAVaultIAMSSOMFAGitLinuxJiraConfluenceREST APIOpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini API
