Engineering Manager, Vanta
Artificial Intelligence
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AI trust management platform
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AI trust management platform
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses earn and prove trust.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience managing technical teams of 4-8+ engineers
- Proven track record as a strong individual contributor before transitioning to management, with hands-on applied AI experience
- Deep knowledge of building LLM-backed products, including experience with prompting, RAG, agent frameworks, and quality hill-climbing
- Experience in fast-paced, startup environments; founder background or YC experience is a strong plus
- Strong adaptability and comfort with ambiguity—you can quickly iterate on roadmaps without too much attachment as priorities evolve
- Excellent collaboration and influencing skills across engineering, product, design, and cross-functional teams
- Familiarity with Vanta's tech stack (TypeScript, React, Node.js) or willingness to ramp quickly
- Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
What the job involves
- In this role, you'll manage a team that's scaling rapidly—currently 7 engineers with plans to grow to scale further throughout the year. You'll work closely with Vanta's AI platform team, product, and GRC subject matter experts to ship AI features that deliver magical customer experiences
- What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta:
- Build and scale a high-performing team, hiring strategically to fill skill gaps as the team grows
- 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 for AI agent and downmarket products, ensuring long-term value aligned with Vanta's business priorities
- Partner closely with product, design, and AI platform teams to ship customer-facing AI features that automate audit work while maintaining human-in-the-loop controls
- Champion best practices for applied AI, including prompt engineering, RAG, agentic frameworks, and quality evaluation
- Navigate rapid change and ambiguity with adaptability, iterating quickly on roadmaps as the team's charter and direction evolve
Our take
The security auditing process is usually very time-consuming, taking hours to complete, and it is often difficult for startups to invest time into such a process. Yet, the benefits of security accreditation are enormous, mainly as many such businesses are working globally and need ways to demonstrate security compliance to one another. Vanta works specifically with startups to help them complete and pass security audits such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
The company is a compliance portal and security monitoring platform that businesses use to assess their risk levels. Vanta carries out a pre-audit of a company's digital security and highlights areas that need to be worked on before a full analysis of all threats is carried out. Other businesses such as Datadog or PagerDuty offer similar security monitoring services, but Vanta monitors its customers throughout the year, allowing any issues to be identified and addressed early on.
Vanta's latest $150M raise, boosting its valuation to $4.15B, highlights the company's rapid growth and strong market position. With AI-driven automation, expanding government partnerships, and strategic acquisitions on the horizon, Vanta is scaling quickly while solving real customer problems. Backed by a talented leadership team and a growing customer base, the company looks set to continue its upward trajectory and build a lasting, sustainable business.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2025
$150m
SERIES D
Jul 2024
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $500.2m
Company benefits
- Health & Wellness: Vanta values the health and well-being of our teammates and offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for teammates and dependents. Vanta is excited to provide an additional range of benefits that holistically support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Work Your Way: Enjoy a remote-first setup if you're in the US, or go hybrid at our international offices
- Paid Parental Leave: Industry competitive paid parental leave for all parents
- Time Away: Industry competitive and generous PTO policy
- 401K Plan: 401k matching contribution plan
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Christina Cacioppo
(Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Vanta in 2017, Christina worked in Product Management for Dropbox. She was also a Professor at the School of Visual Arts and worked on the Investment Team at Union Square Ventures.
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