Founding GRC Lead, Pallet
$175-225k
+ Equity
All-in-one transportation & warehouse management
Be an early applicant
All-in-one transportation & warehouse management
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$175-225k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a new operating system for global logistics.
Role
Who you are
- 7–12 years across GRC, security compliance, or audit, including full ownership of at least two SOC 2 Type II cycles
- Built or significantly matured SOC, ISO, GDPR, and privacy compliance programs in-house - you've operationalized privacy, not just advised on it
- Technically credible with engineers: comfortable discussing access controls, encryption, logging, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) without needing translation
- Deep hands-on experience with compliance automation platforms and evidence workflows
- Startup-calibrated judgment: you know which risks matter, build lightweight process, and have certifications (CISA, CISSP, ISO 27001 LA) as a bonus rather than a substitute for experience
What the job involves
- Pallet is hiring its first dedicated GRC leader to own how we earn and keep trust: with customers, auditors, and regulators. You'll run our SOC 1 and SOC 2 programs, build our GDPR and CCPA privacy operations, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering, product, sales, and legal to make compliance something Pallet is good at, not something it survives
- This role reports directly to leadership and is the foundation of a function you will one end to end, and eventually grow
- You're the first. No inherited process, no legacy bureaucracy: you design the compliance operating model from a blank page, with the GRC tooling and executive support to do it right
- Revenue-facing, not back-office. Enterprise deals at Pallet increasingly hinge on security posture. You'll sit in on customer conversations, own the trust narrative, and directly unblock sales
- Full-spectrum scope. Most GRC roles silo you into audit or privacy or vendor risk. Here you own all of it, with the engineering proximity to actually change how things get built
- Surround yourself with top-tier talent and fast-track your career: this is a foundational seat with a clear path to building and leading a team
- Run SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II audit cycles end to end: control design, evidence automation, auditor relationships, and clean reports delivered on schedule, every cycle
- Build Pallet's privacy program for GDPR and CCPA/CPRA:data inventory and mapping, DSAR handling, DPAs, and privacy reviews baked into product development
- Primary point of contact for external auditors and assessors in collecting evidence, audit responses, timelines. Translate audit findings into actionable plans
- Implement continuous-compliance infrastructure so audit readiness is a byproduct of how we operate, not an annual fire drill
- Embed security and privacy controls into engineering and product workflows, earning adoption through partnership rather than mandate
- Stand up vendor risk management: security reviews, DPA negotiation support, and an ongoing third-party risk register
- Own the customer-facing trust motion (security questionnaires, trust center, customer audits) and measurably shorten enterprise sales cycles
Application process
- Chat with Christy - Business Recruiter - 30 mins
- Chat with Austin Zheng - 30-45 mins
- Proficiency Assessment
- Final Interview - 3-4 hours
- Brief Background Check and Reference Check
Our take
Bringing the power of AI to logistics, Pallet supplies an all-in-one platform that combines transportation and warehouse management. This union of TMS (transportation management system) and WMS (warehouse management system) software in one place makes for a valuable asset for organisations that are seeking to supercharge efficiency.
By collecting everything in one place, Pallet ensures that it stands out from less broad offerings - delivering order entry, dispatch, warehousing, billing, customer communication and more. Clients are able to put all their teams on one platform and automate many of their most time-consuming tasks with the help of AI.
With a long list of customers including teams at SpaceX, Google and Apple, it is clear that Pallet has made a space for itself in the market. The company raised substantial funding in 2025, in a round led by General Catalyst, which is being used to grow its team and operations in line with surging demand for its product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2025
$27m
SERIES B
Oct 2024
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $48m
Company benefits
- 🩺 Health, Vision and Dental benefits
- 🏝️ Flexible PTO
- ➕ Life Insurance and Accidental Insurance
- ❤️🩹 Short-Term Disability Coverage
- 💸 Equity for all staff
- 🪜 401k option; helping you save for the future
- 📚 Yearly learning and development stipend
- 🚌 Commuter benefits if you live in SF
- 🚘 Fully covered uber ride home if you ever have to work late in the office
- 🏡 Remote office home stipend
- 🥤 Monthly happy hours; our last one was a Golden Gate Park BBQ
- 🍲 Company paid dinners on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the office
- 🎉 Annual Company Offsites; our last one was in Sonoma Wine Country 🍷
Company HQ
Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sushanth Raman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to founding the company, they were an Engineer at Retool and Product Manager at Google.
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