Job Description
The Governance, Risk, and Compliance Analyst at Samsara is responsible for assessing third-party risks, automating workflows to support vendor risk management, and collaborating with various teams to ensure security and compliance across the company's systems and operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess third-party risk across Samsara's systems and build automated workflows to support vendor risk management.
- Collaborate with legal, procurement, and engineering teams to review and mitigate vendor risks throughout the vendor lifecycle.
- Provide programmatic updates on security, third-party, and technical risks to the Information Security leadership team.
- Drive automation and efficiency in the third-party risk management program using tools like Zip and Vanta.
- Coordinate with external auditors, internal teams, and stakeholders on procurement activities, audit controls, and compliance requirements.
Requirements
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in the governance, risk, and compliance space.
- Experience implementing or maintaining vendor-risk programs.
- Experience performing security and maturity assessments.
- Supporting the creation or maintenance of risk registers, compliance inventories, and control mappings across internal and external systems.
- Ability to work with systems teams to collaboratively implement security controls across a diverse range of systems, such as Okta, Slack, Salesforce, and internal tooling.
- Professional experience coordinating and interacting with external auditors, internal engineering teams, business stakeholders, senior leadership, and security operations teams on procurement activities, audit controls, and compliance requirements.
- Experience conducting vendor risk assessments, including reviewing security certifications, penetration tests, and policies.
- Strong understanding of vendor integration risks and permission scoping across SaaS platforms such as Slack, Google Workspace, and Salesforce.
- Ability to translate complex technical findings and requirements into clear business risks and requirements to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working with NIST Cybersecurity Framework profiles, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar frameworks (preferred).
- Experience creating workflows through automation and AI assistance.
- Experience working within common GRC and procurement platforms such as Zip and Vanta.
- Experience managing high volumes of vendor requests and competing priorities.
Benefits & Perks
Above-market total compensation including base salary, performance-based bonus, and equity
Flexible, employee-led remote work model
Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
Professional development stipend
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