Head of GRC, Amplitude
$229-384k
OTE
+ ESPP + Equity
Product analytics company
Job no longer available
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$229-384k
OTE
+ ESPP + Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of progressively responsible work experience in GRC, Security, IT, Trust or related roles, accumulating expert-level knowledge of Governance, Risk and Compliance, preferably in a B2B context
- Experience operating as part of a Trust business function or Information Security program, integrating work with Security and collaborating closely with Engineering in a highly technical context
- Modern and technical understanding of best practices for implementing GRC solutions, especially in the context of modern, cloud-based SaaS platform and a fast-based, customer-centric and product-driven environment
- Superb verbal and written communication skills
- Proven ability to influence across dotted lines and at the executive level
- Professional certifications such as CISA, CISM, CRISC, or relevant security credentials
What the job involves
- As a Senior Staff GRC Engineer, you will report to the CISO and operate as our Governance, Risk & Compliance leader
- You will be hands-on and highly influential, executing on GRC goals while enabling GTM and supporting deals
- You’ll design and drive governance efforts across the company and mature risk management end-to-end
- By balancing strategic governance with time-sensitive deal work, you will elevate Amplitude’s security posture and sales velocity simultaneously
- Your engineering skills and experience will enable you to automate and codify GRC solutions in a highly technical environment
- As our program scales, you’ll help cultivate a culture of security by advocating and mentoring across the company
- Design and build lean, effective governance, both for traditional security and compliance needs as well as a rapidly evolving landscape of AI risks
- Lead enterprise risk management, evolving our approach, elevating the right risks to the right levels of management, and stewarding the company to continually drive risk down
- Own customer deal support end-to-end, triaging requests, coordinating SMEs, aligning content with Security and Legal, satisfying questionnaires and audits, and continuously shortening our cycle time
- Drive third-party risk management, perform due diligence, collaborate with vendors to perform assessments, provide risk-based recommendations and approvals
- Support our certification and attestation goals, aligning on control design and implementation with Engineering, Security, IT, Legal and HR
- Apply engineering skills and experience to automate GRC controls and risk telemetry, continually reduce manual labor, increase governance efficacy, and achieve continuous compliance
- Maintain customer-facing trust collateral and the Trust Center
Our take
Amplitude provides product analytics to help companies understand user behaviour. Product, marketing, and growth teams use Amplitude to discover and share insights about user engagement, retention, and revenue.
Amplitude’s user flows reveal which actions are the most commonly taken after users sign up, and which usually precede purchases made in-app, creating paths through the app. The behaviour of individual app users can be viewed with unlimited real-time activity feeds and user timelines.
Thousands of companies use Amplitude analytics, including Microsoft, Under Armour, Intuit, Twitter, Bonobos, Peloton, and many more. In 2024, a securities fraud case was filed against Amplitude due to an IPO and stock share rise that was alleged to be artificially inflated before their downturn in 2022. The case has since been resolved, and Amplitude continues to release new products and operate at full capacity.
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Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2021
$150m
LATE VC
May 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $336.2m
Company benefits
- We offer a generous 12-week parental leave for fathers/partners and 18-20 weeks for new birthing parents. This leave policy also provides flexible scheduling so you can spend time with your family and bond with your little one. Specific leave policy will vary by country
- We believe it’s important to unplug from work to reset and recharge. We offer flexible vacation time and unlimited PTO — and we encourage you to use it!
- We provide a monthly stipend for the wellness activity of your choosing, from gym memberships and fitness classes to acupuncture and massages
- Equity is an important component of compensation, but it should benefit you (not just the company). In addition to offering competitive RSU grants that vest quarterly over three years, our Employee Stock Purchase Plan gives employees the option to buy below market price
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Spenser Skates
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as an Algorithmic Trader, Researcher at DRW Trading Group. They co-found Sonalight but are no longer working at the company.
Curtis Liu
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously worked as a Teaching Assistant at MIT and as a Software Engineer at Google. They co-found Sonalight but are no longer working at the company.
Jeffrey Wang
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)They studied computer science at university. They have extensive experience in software engineering prior to co-founding Amplitude.
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