Manager, Security GRC - Compliance Onboarding & Readiness

Job Description

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Manager, Security GRC - Compliance Onboarding & Readiness

Location: United States - Remote, Flex, or Office

About the Role

HubSpot is seeking a Manager, Security GRC on our Compliance Onboarding & Readiness team. This role is a critical part of how HubSpot approaches trust, security, and governance. Instead of focusing on reactive audit defense, our team acts as a proactive design and engineering partner. We shift compliance engineering “left” to ensure our rapidly expanding product surface, including usage-based billing systems, advanced AI capabilities, and scaling infrastructure, is fundamentally secure by design and audit-ready.

This is a hands-on, “player-coach” role. Reporting directly to the Senior Manager, you will lead and mentor a dedicated team of GRC professionals, while also acting as a high-impact individual contributor (IC). You are someone who loves to get into the weeds: executing proactive control designs, performing technical walkthroughs, mapping controls to complex cloud environments, and directly authoring robust control documentation alongside your team.

You will drive the day-to-day operationalization of our High-Risk Control Testing and Compliance Onboarding charters, moving HubSpot away from point-in-time evidence gathering and toward continuous compliance automated by telemetry.

What You’ll Do

Be an Active Player-Coach & Lead the Team

• Direct People Management: Lead, develop, and mentor a talented sub-team of GRC professionals. Evolve their capabilities in risk-based judgment and technical engineering partnership.
• Hands-on Execution (IC Work): Actively lead by example. You will personally conduct high-impact control walkthroughs, draft complex process narratives, design baseline control mappings for new architectures, and directly test our most critical systems.
• Stabilization & Backlog Burnout: Guide and support the team through its immediate operational maturity phases, and partnering cross-functionally to systematically burn down the legacy issues backlog.

Operationalize the Compliance “Front Door”

• Shift Compliance Left: Manage and scale our centralized compliance onboarding intake process. Partner early with Product, Engineering, and FinOps during the design and architecture stages (pre-coding) to embed security and compliance controls before production release.
• Minimize Friction: Maintain predictable, frictionless compliance paths for engineering stakeholders so compliance acts as an operational accelerator rather than a bottleneck.

Drive High-Risk Control Testing & Continuous Assurance

• Execute Deep-Dive Testing: Personally lead and oversee rigorous internal testing of HubSpot’s highest-risk controls, prioritizing Identity and Access Management (IAM), privileged access, data protection, change management, and AI governance.
• Continuous Monitoring Telemetry: Partner to design and build automated dashboards, transitioning the team’s evidence collection from manual spreadsheets to continuous data streams.
• Define Early-Warning Signals: Build out and monitor key control health indicators (OKIs/PKIs) to identify and remediate control degradation long before audit windows open.

Foster Collaborative Partnerships & Seamless Hand-offs

• Proactive Pre-Audit Alignment: Lead proactive reviews to validate control design, helping system owners address gaps collaboratively before audit cycles begin.
• Frictionless Partner Handoffs: Partner deeply with our Compliance Audit Execution team to transition ready, thoroughly vetted control packages for external testing, replacing traditional siloed boundaries with smooth, cooperative handoffs.
• Shared Posture Insights: Actively feed readiness metrics and testing signals into the broader Security Governance and Risk ecosystem to build a unified, transparent view of security health across HubSpot.

What We’re Looking For

Required Experience & Technical Rigor

• Demonstrated experience in Security GRC, IT Compliance, or IT Audit, ideally within a fast-paced, public SaaS environment.
• Hands-On Player-Coach Leadership: Experience managing, mentoring, or leading GRC professionals, combined with a strong desire and demonstrated ability to execute as an individual contributor. You must love rolling up your sleeves to build.
• Deep Control Expertise: Strong understanding of SOX 404 control design, risk-based scoping, testing, and proactive issue management within modern engineering environments (AWS, microservices, CI/CD pipelines).
• First-Principles Architect Mindset: You look at compliance as a systems-engineering challenge, not a checklist. You have experience implementing controls that are automated, scalable, and lightweight for developers.
• Exceptional Communication & HubSpot Culture Fit: You are empathetic, remarkably clear, and direct. You can explain complex regulatory “whys” to engineering leaders.

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with emerging technology frameworks, specifically AI governance structures (such as ISO 42001) alongside traditional frameworks (SOC ¹⁄₂, ISO 27001, NIST).
• Experience supporting product transitions to usage-based billing or microservices-based financial data pipelines.
• Professional certifications such as CISA, CRISC, CISSP, or equivalent experience.

Why HubSpot

At HubSpot, security is a core value. We believe that to “Grow Better,” we must protect the operational and financial integrity of our platform with airtight, auditor-proof logic—while ensuring our teams can move fast and innovate with confidence. You’ll be joining a highly collaborative, deeply supportive GRC organization that treats governance as a modern product rather than a bureaucratic constraint. If you are inspired to build a secure-by-design compliance ecosystem at scale, we’d love to talk to you!

Pay & Benefits

The cash compensation below includes base salary, on-target commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets under HubSpot’s bonus plan for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, some roles are eligible to participate in HubSpot’s equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs). Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are tailored to your skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons.

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Annual Cash Compensation Range:

$146,200—$233,900 USD

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About HubSpot

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is an AI-powered customer platform with all the software, integrations, and resources customers need to connect marketing, sales, and service. HubSpot’s connected platform enables businesses to grow faster by focusing on what matters most: customers.

At HubSpot, bold is our baseline. Our employees around the globe move fast, stay customer-obsessed, and win together. Our culture is grounded in four commitments: Solve for the Customer, Be Bold, Learn Fast, Align, Adapt & Go!, and Deliver with HEART. These commitments shape how we work, lead, and grow.

We’re building a company where people can do their best work. We focus on brilliant work, not badge swipes. By combining clarity, ownership, and trust, we create space for big thinking and meaningful progress. And we know that when our employees grow, our customers do too.

Recognized globally for our award-winning culture by Comparably, Glassdoor, Fortune, and more, HubSpot is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with employees and offices around the world.

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