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About the Role
Figma's Governance, Risk, and Compliance team is seeking a Director to lead its next phase of growth. This role owns the company's security compliance, risk management, and governance strategy, including setting direction for certifications, building scalable frameworks, and representing GRC to executives, the board, customers, and regulators. It's a hands-on leadership position managing a team while staying involved in programs, infrastructure, audits, and cross-functional relationships.
Responsibilities
- Set the strategy and roadmap for Figma's GRC program, aligning compliance, risk, and governance priorities with company objectives and the Security leadership team
- Own Figma's certification and compliance portfolio, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, SOX ITGC, and GDPR, and expand coverage as Figma enters new markets and customer segments
- Lead and grow a team of compliance, risk, and governance professionals, setting priorities, developing talent, and building a culture of rigor and pragmatism
- Build and evolve enterprise risk and controls frameworks — including AI Governance, Risk and Compliance initiatives and control effectiveness monitoring — that scale across technical and business stakeholders
- Manage relationships with external auditors, assessors, and regulators, and oversee audit cycles from planning through remediation
- Direct the selection and optimization of GRC platforms and tooling, and maintain the lifecycle of security policies, standards, and procedures
- Partner with Sales, Legal, and Customer Trust on security questionnaires, customer audits, contracts, and trust-related communications that support the sales lifecycle
- Scale enterprise risk reporting and report on program health, risk posture, and audit readiness to executive and board-level audiences
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in information security, compliance, or risk management
- At least 4 years leading or managing a GRC, security, or compliance team
- Deep, hands-on experience with frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001, including leading programs through multiple audit cycles
- A track record of building GRC programs from the ground up or scaling them through high-growth stages, ideally at a SaaS or platform company
- Experience operating in a public company environment with SOX ITGC requirements
- Executive presence and exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to build cross-functional partnerships across Security, Legal, IT, Sales, and Engineering
- Ability to translate technical risk into business terms for executives, the board, and customers
- Experience implementing compliance programs for emerging products, including AI-enabled products
- Strong understanding of cloud-based technologies and their GRC implications
- A builder's mindset comfortable with ambiguity as the program scales
Skills
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001
- FedRAMP
- SOX ITGC
- GDPR
- AI Governance
- Risk Management
- Compliance
- Governance
- Cloud-based technologies
- GRC platforms (Vanta, Drata, or similar)
- Global privacy and data protection regulations (GDPR, NIS2)
- CISSP
- CISA
- CISM
- CRISC
Location
- US hubs
- Remotely in the United States
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience in information security, compliance, or risk management
- 4+ years leading or managing a GRC, security, or compliance team
Education Level
- Security or risk certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, or CRISC
Salary/Compensations
- $235,000—$317,000 USD
Benefits
- Equity
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits with company contributions
- Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Holidays
- Other leave benefits
- Exempt employees are eligible for employer-provided paid flexible PTO
- Company recharge days
- Cell phone and home internet reimbursements
- Lifestyle spending accounts
- Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles
- Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
About the Company
- Figma is growing its team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all.
- Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI.
- From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.
- If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
Equal Opportunity
- At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish.
- Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
- We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
- If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com.
- These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
- Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to: Holding interviews in an accessible location, Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing, Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers, Changing the mode or format of interviews.