Technology Risk & Compliance Lead

With 1,000 intelligence professionals, over $300M in sales, and serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!

Recorded Future seeks a Technology Risk & Compliance Lead to manage assurance requirements and ensure compliance with customer and regulatory security, confidentiality, and privacy standards using frameworks like CMMC, SOC 2, and ISO 27001. This role is responsible for maintaining the organization’s assurance and compliance obligations, ensuring alignment with customer and regulatory expectations. The individual will play a critical role in managing IT risk by advising leadership, analyzing strategic initiatives, and driving the design and implementation of risk and control frameworks that support policy and standard requirements.

What You'll Do:

• Prepare for internal and external assessments (SOC 2, ISO, CMMC, etc.) by ensuring controls are audit-ready and validated on an ongoing basis.
• Conduct risk assessments to identify potential security and availability risks and advise on the design and governance of controls to mitigate these risks.
• Review and update the organization’s risk register (new risks, changes to existing risks, etc.)
• Track and remediate control deficiencies or gaps identified through design and operating effectiveness testing and validate appropriate mitigating/compensating controls are in place to address residual risk.
• Coordinate with technology teams to validate risk owners and mitigation plans and report summary results to internal compliance functions.
• Maintain evidence repositories and gather evidence to support both internal and external assessment and certification testing.
• Report risk and control status to senior management and governance committees (Legal, Privacy, Enterprise Risk Management, etc.).
• Partner in the development of strategy, objectives, and action plans for assurance obligations.
• Participate in multi-stakeholder meetings and provide administrative support for senior-level discussions.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the business and assurance obligations to shape successful execution plans.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, anticipate future legislation and/or customer demands, enforce adherence to requirements, and advise management on needed actions.
• Identify, collect, synthesize, and communicate risks and blockers concisely, accurately, and professionally for senior leadership to ensure alignment.
• Regularly define and review key success metrics for data-focused tracking and proactively seek out new and improved mechanisms for visibility, ensuring the program stays aligned with organizational objectives.

What You'll Bring:

• Strong knowledge of IT general computer controls and related operations.
• Experience with control frameworks (e.g., SOC2, ISAE3000, ISO27001, FedRAMP, CMMC, etc.).
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills necessary for interaction with business leaders and teams across all levels of the organization.
• Strong negotiation and consensus-building skills.
• The ability to meet project deliverables.
• Contribute to a work environment that encourages knowledge of, respect for, and the development of skills to engage with those of other cultures and backgrounds.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience; a degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field is preferred.
• Professional certification like CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CIPP, or similar is a plus.
• Spanish and/or Ukrainian language proficiency is a plus

Why should you join Recorded Future?
Recorded Future employees (or “Futurists”), represent over 40 nationalities and embody our core values of having high standards, practicing inclusion, and acting ethically. Our dedication to empowering clients with intelligence to disrupt adversaries has earned us a 4.8-star user rating from Gartner and more than 45 of the Fortune 100 companies as clients.

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