Senior Engineering Manager, TPRM Data Monitoring & Vendor AI

At Vanta, our mission is to secure the internet and protect consumer data. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 

At Vanta, our mission is to secure the internet and protect consumer data. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 

Our product integrates deeply with the services that present security risk to a company, pulls and analyzes data from those sources, and surfaces potential security threats to our customers in real-time with guidance to remediate them.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for setting strategy, for leading your team to deliver results consistently and sustainably, for growing and developing talented engineers, and for cultivating a healthy, results-driven culture on your team.

Vanta’s business and team are growing quickly, and it’s essential that we lay the foundation for a successful organization. You’ll leverage your past experience and play a crucial role in laying the groundwork for a successful engineering organization, contributing to developing foundational processes that enable our entire team to scale — onboarding, interview loops, career frameworks, execution frameworks, and more. .  

The Vanta TPRM (Third Party Risk Management) team is developing a next-generation, AI-powered vendor risk management solution that enables larger organizations to effectively evaluate and manage the security and risk associated with third-party suppliers. 

Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company.

Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We’d love for you to join us!

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! 

What you’ll do as a Senior Engineering Manager at Vanta:

• Drive significant impact for our customers and business by leading teams to deliver results consistently and sustainably

• Build a best-in-class engineering team. Coach, mentor and create an environment where your team can do their best work and deliver for the business. 

• Set direction and guide technical strategy, ensuring that your team is delivering long-term value aligned with Vanta’s business priorities

• Work closely with Vanta’s customers and customer-facing teammates to build and ship high-value products and infrastructure

• Play an integral role in laying the foundation for Vanta’s engineering culture

How to be successful in this role:

• Have 4 or more years of professional experience in a full-time engineering leadership

• Experience leading multiple teams, with sub-teams & a history of having managers report into you

• Successful track record of growing leaders into senior leaders & individual contributors

• Strong decision maker who effectively balances ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality

• Have participated in developing or driving engineering-wide initiatives (recruiting processes, career frameworks, etc) in a prior role

• Have prior experience managing complex, long-term projects that touch multiple teams and cross-functional stakeholders

• Effective communicator and story-teller. Able to influence cross functional stakeholders and adjacent teams

• Have experience driving 0->1 initiatives or AI product development

What you can expect as a Vantan:

• Industry-competitive compensation

• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage

• 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents

• Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends

• Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility

• 401(k) matching

• Flexible work hours and location

• Open PTO policy

• 11 paid holiday