Security GRC Specialist

Profound is the marketing platform for the age of AI search. The way brands reach people is being rewritten — AI models like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode are now the answer layer between companies and their customers. We built the platform marketers use to understand, measure, and win in that world: the analytics, intelligence, and agent automation that turn AI search from a threat into a competitive advantage. We are hiring a Security GRC Specialist to own and scale our security and compliance programs while working closely with engineering, sales, and customer success. This is not a "watch the dashboard and file the report" role. You'll shape how we build secure systems, push remediation through with engineering, and make sure compliance accelerates the business rather than slowing it down.

Responsibilities

Own and operate our compliance frameworks: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and others as we grow; Drive audits end to end: readiness, evidence collection, auditor coordination; Continuously improve controls and reduce compliance overhead through automation; Partner with Sales and Customer Success to unblock deals and build trust with security teams at Fortune 500 customers; Develop and maintain our trust center, security whitepapers, and customer-facing documentation; Work directly with engineering to design and implement practical security controls across our cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and customer-facing surfaces; Partner on identity and access work (SSO, SAML, SCIM, IdP integrations) where security, compliance, and customer-facing requirements intersect; Translate compliance requirements into technical, scalable solutions; Identify gaps and drive remediation, not just report them; Run risk assessments across systems, vendors, and processes; Maintain policies and standards that are lightweight, current, and actually useful; Track and report on our security posture and compliance status to leadership; Improve how we manage compliance: evidence collection, control mapping, automation; Evaluate and implement GRC and security tooling where it earns its keep

Requirements

7+ years in security GRC, compliance, or adjacent security engineering roles; Hands-on experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar frameworks; Experience supporting audits and leading customer-facing security conversations; Comfortable working with engineers and reasoning about cloud infrastructure, APIs, identity systems, and data flows; Able to translate between compliance language and engineering reality in both directions; Proactive and hands-on: you drive changes, you don't just track them; Comfortable balancing rigor with pragmatism in a fast-moving environment; Strong written communication, especially with enterprise customers and cross-functional partners; Experience building or scaling a GRC program from early stages; Familiarity with automation in compliance workflows; Background in security engineering, DevOps, or identity and access management

Nice to have

Experience with modern cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

Benefits

Equity; full range of benefits and perks