Principal Public Sector Compliance Program Manager

Job Description

Founded in 2018 with co-headquarters in Dublin and Boston, Tines powers some of the world’s most important workflows. Our intelligent workflow platform applies AI, automation, and integration with human ingenuity to drive real business results.

Tines serves a diverse range of customers, from startups to public companies, including Canva, Databricks, Elastic, Kayak, Intercom, and McKesson. As an integrator across the entire tech stack, Tines is vendor-agnostic integrating with any API-enabled service. This flexibility enables our customers to achieve their highest-priority goals faster. And because Tines is secure and private by design, it’s popular with security, IT, engineering, finance, and other security-focused teams.

At Tines, we’re driven by our values of Simplicity, Speed, and Soundness. We’re committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences while fostering a company culture that nurtures individual curiosity, growth, and integrity. We’re excited about what’s next, and we’re looking for others to join us on our journey.

We’re hiring a Principal, Public Sector Compliance Program Manager to own and drive Tines’ federal and public sector compliance program. Reporting to the Director of GRC, this is a senior individual contributor role for someone who brings structure, momentum, and sound judgment to complex, cross-functional initiatives.

You’ll own the program that drives Tines’ readiness across U.S. federal, Department of Defense, and SLED (State, Local, and Education) environments. That includes a wide range of requirements such as FedRAMP, CMMC, IL5 and related DoD requirements, NIST-based frameworks including NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171, FISMA-related expectations, CJIS, stateRAMP, and other agency-, customer-, and procurement-driven security and compliance obligations.

This role requires a broad, strategic view of public sector compliance and the ability to connect the dots across legal commitments, customer expectations, product and architecture decisions, security requirements, and go-to-market priorities.

You’ll work closely with Sales, Security, GRC, Engineering, Product, IT, and Tines’ public sector legal team, which supports the program on contractual issues, customer commitments, regulatory interpretation, and other legal considerations tied to public sector work.

This role will operate at the program level, setting the roadmap, building the governance model, driving alignment across teams, managing risk and dependencies, and helping Tines execute in a scalable and sustainable way.

This role is remote and based in the United States. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. Work must be performed from within the United States in accordance with customer and contractual requirements

What you will be doing:

• Own and drive Tines’ federal and public sector compliance program across U.S. federal, DoD, and SLED environments.
• Define and execute the program roadmap, governance model, and operating cadence, including aligning stakeholders, and driving progress against key milestones.
• Translate regulatory, security, contractual, and customer requirements into clear, executable workstreams across Security, GRC, Engineering, Product, IT, Legal, Sales, and partner teams.
• Partner with Security and Engineering to align compliance requirements with system architecture, environment design, control implementation, boundary definition, inheritance models, and shared responsibility structures
• Serve as a strategic partner to Legal, Sales, Security, and GRC, helping navigate complex compliance scenarios and ensuring alignment between technical implementation, contractual commitments, and go-to-market strategy
• Identify and actively manage program-level risks, gaps, dependencies, and tradeoffs, escalating with clear, actionable recommendations
• Bring working knowledge of the broader public sector ecosystem, including DFARS, GSA schedules, agency-specific requirements, and flowdown obligations, and help connect those requirements to compliance, product, and commercial decisions
• Stay current on evolving federal and public sector regulatory, security, and procurement requirements, and translate new developments into actionable guidance for internal teams
• Partner closely with Tines’ public sector legal team, which provides subject matter expertise on legal interpretation, contractual commitments, procurement requirements, and regulatory positioning, while you ensure those considerations are incorporated into program execution

What you bring with you:

• Deep, hands-on experience operating federal and public sector compliance programs, scaling, or maturing programs across multiple frameworks
• Strong experience across FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, CMMC, DoD Impact Levels (IL4/IL5), FISMA, CJIS, and stateRAMP, with a clear understanding of how these frameworks are applied in practice
• Experience translating these requirements into real-world architecture, control implementation, documentation, and operational processes, including system boundary definition, inheritance models, and shared responsibility considerations
• Strong understanding of how public sector requirements intersect with technical architecture, security controls, legal commitments, customer expectations, and commercial constraints
• Working knowledge of the broader public sector regulatory and procurement landscape, including familiarity with DFARS, GSA schedules, agency procurement processes, and customer-specific flowdown requirements
• Understanding of how legal, regulatory, contractual, and security requirements move through public sector environments, with the ability to identify issues early and partner effectively with Legal and other stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to operate with a broad, systems-level perspective, ensuring decisions scale across frameworks and use cases
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across Security, GRC, Engineering, Product, Legal, and Sales
• Exceptional program leadership skills, including roadmap development, dependency management, risk identification, prioritization, and executive communication

Target Annual Compensation: $245-260k + equity

Applicants for this opportunity must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

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At Tines, we’re all about trying new things and taking the leap. If you’re second-guessing your application, we hope you’ll trust your gut and take the leap too! Applying for a new job isn’t always easy, especially if you’re thinking of a career pivot – but we’re big believers in learning and growth here at Tines, so you’ve nothing to worry about. A variety of experience, perspectives, and voices makes us the company we are. We’d love to hear from you.

Tines provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation.

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