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Senior Technical Risk and Compliance Manager

Atlassian
San Francisco, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Jul 2025
💰 $196,225/yr($125,100/yr – $196,225/yr)

About the role

Overview

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

Responsibilities

What you'll do

  • Prepare annual audit plans, develop audit direction, and align with stakeholders on audit timetables

  • Lead and oversee a team conducting internal readiness testing for SOC 2, ISO 27001/27018, HIPAA, C5 and GDPR frameworks

  • Develop timeline for internal readiness assessment activities and obtain alignment from all stakeholders

  • Ensure all internal readiness assessment activities are finalized and completed per documented deadlines

  • Maintain comprehensive documentation of controls, testing procedures, and evidence to support compliance efforts

  • Work closely with internal stakeholders, including product and functional teams, to address architectural, infrastructure, or new services that impact compliance

  • Lead preparation for external audits by aligning on timeframes, roles and responsibilities, expected use of internal tooling and communication methods

  • Manage and coordinate external audit activity for SOC 2, ISO 27001/27018, HIPAA, C5 and PCI external audits - maintain a project plan, schedule necessary walkthroughs, and act as single point of contact for audit requests

  • Oversee the assessment and review of SOC reports of critical third party suppliers

  • Lead and oversee the design and operating effectiveness testing on predefined Privacy controls to ensure compliance with GDPR

  • Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the readiness testing process

  • Develop controls and mitigation plans, and lead aspects of their implementation

  • Work with senior management to improve their controls portfolio

  • Provide regular status updates ensuring everyone is aware of progress and road-blockers

  • Promote effective teamwork, collaboration, and commitment across the Product Compliance team and the broader organisation

  • Manage the workload of team members

  • Identify and provide opportunities for career growth

  • Seek opportunities to improve processes and collaboration to increase team output and team health

Qualifications

Your background

  • Minimum 8 - 10 years of management experience in IT audit, compliance, or a related field

  • Engineering compliance experience with frameworks/standards like SOC 2, ISO 27001/27018, HIPAA, PCI, C5 and GDPR frameworks and requirements

  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks and standards such as NIST 800-53

  • Experience with the software development business for cloud service providers

  • Experience with Technology Risk Management, Compliance and Information Security

  • Experience establishing yourself as an expert leader

  • Experience developing goals that are aligned with business strategy and success metrics are identified

  • Experience with control and risk frameworks, performing compliance and risk assessments, creating controls and overseeing mitigation projects

  • Experience with translating compliance requirements to engineering and product teams

  • Experience with determining scope, timeline creation, complex project tracking, risk management, and process improvement

  • Familiarity with Jira and Confluence

  • Relevant certifications such as CISM, CISA, CISSP, or ISO 27001 Lead Auditor are highly desirable

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $150,300 - $196,225

Zone B: $135,900 - $177,425

Zone C: $125,100 - $163,325

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are in

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