Head of GRC

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform helping over 4300 customersincluding Atlassian Burger King NBCUniversal Square and Under Armourbuild better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform teams can analyze test and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories by G2 Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product data and marketing teams. Learn more at .

As an organization we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility take ownership of problems and successes approach challenges with a growth mindset and put our customers at the center of everything we do.

Amplitudes Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products improves the ability to solve complex problems and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusionone focused on psychological safety empathy and human connectionthat will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

About The Role & Team

As a Senior Staff GRC Engineer you will report to the CISO and operate as our Governance Risk & Compliance leader. You will be hands-on and highly influential executing on GRC goals while enabling GTM and supporting deals. Youll design and drive governance efforts across the company and mature risk management end-to-end. By balancing strategic governance with time-sensitive deal work you will elevate Amplitudes security posture and sales velocity simultaneously. Your engineering skills and experience will enable you to automate and codify GRC solutions in a highly technical environment. As our program scales youll help cultivate a culture of security by advocating and mentoring across the company.

As a Senior Staff GRC Engineer you will:

• Design and build lean effective governance both for traditional security and compliance needs as well as a rapidly evolving landscape of AI risks
• Lead enterprise risk management evolving our approach elevating the right risks to the right levels of management and stewarding the company to continually drive risk down
• Own customer deal support end-to-end triaging requests coordinating SMEs aligning content with Security and Legal satisfying questionnaires and audits and continuously shortening our cycle time
• Drive third-party risk management perform due diligence collaborate with vendors to perform assessments provide risk-based recommendations and approvals
• Support our certification and attestation goals aligning on control design and implementation with Engineering Security IT Legal and HR
• Apply engineering skills and experience to automate GRC controls and risk telemetry continually reduce manual labor increase governance efficacy and achieve continuous compliance
• Maintain customer-facing trust collateral and the Trust Center

Youll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• 10 years of progressively responsible work experience in GRC Security IT Trust or related roles accumulating expert-level knowledge of Governance Risk and Compliance preferably in a B2B context
• Experience operating as part of a Trust business function or Information Security program integrating work with Security and collaborating closely with Engineering in a highly technical context
• Modern and technical understanding of best practices for implementing GRC solutions especially in the context of modern cloud-based SaaS platform and a fast-based customer-centric and product-driven environment
• Superb verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to influence across dotted lines and at the executive level
• Professional certifications such as CISA CISM CRISC or relevant security credentials

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset ownership and humility are core to the way we work: were tenacious in the face of challenges we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success and we operate from a place of empathy and openness seeking to understand many points of view.

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platformwe help companies capture data they can trust uncover clear insights about customer behavior and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. Were super proud of what weve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.

Some of our benefit programs include:

• Excellent Medical Dental and Vision insurance coverages with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical Dental Vision on select plans
• Flexible time off paid holidays and more
• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you whether thats wellness (monthly) commuter transit/parking (monthly) learning and development (quarterly) home office equipment (annual) and much more
• Excellent Parental benefits including: 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support Back-up Child Care support
• Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Other fun facts about Amplitude:

• We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
• Our customers love us! Theyve said were the #1 product analytics solution for 19 quarters in a row on G2.
• We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
• We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs management training and wellness initiatives.
• We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
• We were founded in 2012 went public via a direct listing in September 2021 and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
• Were a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ) New York Vancouver Amsterdam London Paris Singapore and Tokyo.
• Our mascot is Data Monster who loves to chow down on numbers charts and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race color religion national origin age sex marital status ancestry physical or mental disability veteran status or sexual orientation.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is eligible for equity benefits and other forms of compensation.

Based on Colorado law the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $229000 - $344000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in New York City the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range: $255000 - $384000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $255000 - $384000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $229000 - $344000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $229000 - $344000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary) medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.

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