GRC Program Manager

As our GRC Program Manager , you will be the driving force behind vivenu’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance execution. This is fundamentally an execution- and delivery-focused role: you are a true program manager who knows how to get things done yourself while driving cross-functional accountability across Engineering, Product, Legal, and Security teams.

You will lead our GRC initiatives end-to-end, driving audit strategy, owning internal risk workflows, and managing complex compliance projects across the organization. By translating regulatory and framework requirements into actionable, practical business processes, you will ensure vivenu continues to scale securely and responsibly across global markets without sacrificing developer velocity.

Responsibilities:

• Drive Program Execution & Ownership: Take full end-to-end accountability for GRC deliverables, setting timelines, tracking cross-functional dependencies, and orchestrating teams to ensure compliance milestones are hit on schedule.
• Lead Internal Audit Operations: Serve as the primary internal leader and project owner for third party audits (e.g., SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS). Own the process from scoping to successful completion, managing evidence collection, guiding control owners, and leading remediation efforts.
• Build & Scale Compliance Frameworks: Maintain and mature robust compliance frameworks, ensuring continued preparation for evolving global requirements such as GDPR and related security standards.
• Manage Risk & Remediation Workflows: Conduct practical IT, security, and third-party risk assessments. Maintain vivenu’s risk register, ensuring risk treatment plans and corrective actions are actively assigned, tracked, and closed out by control owners.
• Optimize GRC Operations & Tooling: Leverage modern GRC platforms and automation tools to streamline audit tracking, policy administration, vendor risk management and issue remediation workflows.
• Enable Engineering & Product Teams: Partner closely with technical teams to embed security controls, privacy-by-design, and cloud best practices directly into our development lifecycle and API-first platform.
• Support Enterprise Sales Readiness: Assist in answering complex enterprise customer security questionnaires, supporting third-party risk reviews, and demonstrating vivenu's robust compliance posture during high-value sales engagements.
• Governance & Executive Reporting: Translate complex technical and regulatory findings into clear risk posture dashboards, KRIs, and operational updates for leadership.

What you will need to succeed in this role:

• Execution & Program Management: Proven track record of getting things done: driving cross-functional projects, aligning diverse technical and business stakeholders, and holding teams accountable to deliverables.
• Audit Leadership Experience: Hands-on experience leading major compliance audits (e.g., SOC 2 , PCI DSS , ISO 27001) from start to finish as the internal counterpart and owner.
• Domain Context: Prior experience in SaaS , Fintech , or cloud-native technology environments is highly preferred. If your background is from another sector, a strong curiosity and fast-learning mindset toward modern cloud, API, and SaaS architectures is required.
• GRC Experience: demonstrated exposure to GRC and Security processes such as risk assessments, internal audits, policy development, corrective actions management.
• Framework Familiarity: Solid working knowledge of core industry standards and frameworks (e.g., SOC 2 , PCI DSS , ISO 27001 , GDPR , NIST CSF/RMF ).
• Communication & Influence: Outstanding ability to translate regulatory requirements into clear operational steps, communicating effectively with both deep technical experts and business executives.
• Languages: Business fluency in English is required.

Nice to have:

• Technical Aptitude: Basic hands-on technical familiarity (e.g., basic scripting, working with APIs, or reading system logs/configurations) is a big plus.
• Exposure to GRC automation tools (e.g., Vanta, Drata, ServiceNow IRM, or LogicGate).
• Relevant professional certifications such as CRISC , CISA , CISM , CISSP , CSSP or ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor .
• German language proficiency would be a plus.