Senior Technical Compliance Analyst

About Snorkel

Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine technology with research-driven AI data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes.

Job Description

We are seeking a hands-on, builder-minded Senior Technical Compliance Analyst to serve as the operational engine behind our Trust & Security program.

You will maintain our SOC 2 Type II posture, drive our second entity from Type I to Type II, and act as the bridge between compliance requirements and engineering & delivery execution. You will also lay the technical groundwork to evolve us toward **CMMC 2.0**, ensuring we are ready for federal contracts without slowing down our product velocity.

**This is not a "compliance cop" role.** We practice **"Yes, if..."** security—you will influence architecture, automate policy enforcement, and unblock enterprise sales by ensuring the Security team has pristine, verifiable evidence at their fingertips.

What You will Do

Powering Customer Trust & Revenue Enablement

• The Engine Behind Revenue: Help drafting accurate, technically precise responses to RFPs, security questionnaires (CAIQ, SIG, custom risk assessments), and customer portals.
• Repository Stewardship: Own and continuously update the "Library of Truth"—a pristine repository of pre-vetted security evidence, technical configurations, and policy documents. By keeping this repository audit-ready, you enable the Security team to respond to enterprise prospects in hours, not days.
• Technical Depth on Demand: When a customer asks about AWS KMS encryption, logging pipelines, or IAM privilege escalation paths, you retrieve the granular evidence and draft the written narrative the Security and Legal Team needs to confidently close the deal.

Building Compliance into the DNA

• Compliance Partner: Partner with IT, Security, Product, Engineering, and Delivery early in the development lifecycle. Review new features, infrastructure changes, and vendor integrations to influence architectural decisions that bake in compliance by design—without creating friction or slowing sprints.
• Policy as Guardrails: Write, update, and operationalize security policies that accelerate delivery. Translate abstract SOC 2 and NIST controls into clear, developer-friendly tasks (e.g., IAM hardening, log retention, Zero Trust implementation).
• Compliance-as-Code: Where possible, automate policy enforcement in CI/CD pipelines so that security checks are invisible, automated, and frictionless for engineering teams.
• Enablement, Not Enforcement: Conduct lightweight compliance enablement sessions with engineering teams—showing them how to self-serve evidence collection and interpret compliance requirements—so security becomes everyone's responsibility, not just yours.

Operational GRC & Audit Excellence

• Audit Lifecycle Management: Drive and coordinate the end-to-end SOC 2 Type I and Type II audit cycles across our business entities. Manage audit schedules, coordinate with external auditors, and drive remediation of findings to keep us perpetually audit-ready.

• GRC Automation: Be the power-user of our modern GRC stack (Vanta, Drata). Automate evidence collection, continuously monitor technical controls, and eliminate manual spreadsheet tracking.
• Operational Cadences: Manage the compliance ticketing queue in Jira. Execute routine mandates including quarterly User Access Reviews (UAR), security awareness training, phishing simulations, and managing the Risk Acceptance/Exception process.
• Metrics & Reporting: Build and maintain compliance dashboards (KPIs/KRIs) for the Security Lead and executive team. Track audit readiness scores, remediation SLAs, and control health trends to provide clear visibility into our posture.
• Policy Governance: Manage the annual policy review and attestation cycle—ensuring process owners review, sign off, and update documentation on schedule, keeping our policies evergreen.

Future Federal & Supply Chain Roadmap

• Foundation for Federal Growth: Assist the Security Team in aligning current controls with federal standards—specifically NIST SP 800-53 , NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 , FedRAMP , and CMMC 2.0 . Help draft early System Security Plans (SSPs) and Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&Ms).
• Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM): Own the third-party vendor review process, assessing critical partners (Cloud, HRIS, CRM) to meet strict federal supply chain requirements and offload this operational work from the Security Lead.
• Incident Readiness: Support the Security Team during security incidents by preserving audit-relevant evidence, documenting the chronology of events, and drafting post-incident reports to satisfy regulatory and audit requirements.

Who You Are

• Experience: 7+ years of experience in technical compliance, IT audit, or GRC within a SaaS or fast-paced startup environment.
• Audit Mastery: Proven end-to-end experience supporting external SOC 2 Type I and Type II audits—with specific expertise auditing IT General Controls (ITGC) (Change Management, Logical Access, System Operations). You know how to manage auditors and translate their requests into actionable developer tasks.
• Technical Acumen: Strong understanding of modern cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), IAM, CI/CD pipelines, encryption standards, and vulnerability management. You can read a Terraform plan or an AWS Config rule and interpret its compliance impact.
• Tooling: Experience operating automated compliance platforms (Vanta, Drata), tracking work in Jira, and security awareness platform (KnowBe4)
• Mindset: You are a business enabler . You practice "Yes, if..." security—you negotiate secure alternatives rather than blocking releases or ignoring risks. You thrive in a partnership role, ensuring IT, Security, Engineering, and Delivery teams have everything they need to succeed.
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical controls to customers and business risks to engineers.

Why Join Us?

• Direct Revenue Impact: Your work directly correlates to revenue. By building the "Library of Truth," you ensure the Security team can close enterprise deals faster and more confidently.
• Be a Builder, Not a Bureaucrat: You won't just check boxes. You will build automated, scalable compliance programs that enable the business to engineer quicker and sell faster.
• Modern, Automated Tooling: Say goodbye to manual spreadsheet tracking. We leverage continuous-monitoring GRC tech so you can focus on technical risk and architecture, not admin overhead.
• Future-Proof Career Growth: Gain rare, hands-on exposure to evolving a commercial SaaS startup into a federal-ready entity (FedRAMP/CMMC), highly accelerating your market value in the GRC space.

**This role is Hybrid Only. 3 days a week in our SF or NYC office.**

Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Salary range(s) for this role

$150,000—$220,000 USD

Be Your Best at Snorkel

Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you’re fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.

Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.

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