Security and Compliance Manager

About us

• At Sierra, we’re creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in‑person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, France, Singapore, and Japan.

• We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture:
  Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.

• Our co‑founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co‑CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google’s earliest product managers and co‑creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs.
  
  Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.

• Act as a primary point of accountability for customer trust enablement, including participation in customer meetings, security reviews and AI governance.

• Contribute to AI Governance including building guardrails to align with AI regulations (EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF and local EU laws).

• Partner closely with Legal and Privacy to interpret regulatory requirements and support complex, security‑sensitive contractual discussions, escalating risks and tradeoffs appropriately.

• Collaborate with Engineering and Product to ensure expectations are reflected in system design and operational effectiveness.

• Translate regulatory and privacy expectations into scalable, region‑aware technical controls across model governance, agent security and safety, and data handling.

• Own and evolve customer‑facing trust materials and narratives related to AI, privacy, and security.

• Represent Sierra in customer audits and formal assessments, clearly explaining security posture, governance decisions, and risk management approaches.

• Support resilience and response expectations as part of broader governance, with an emphasis on learning and continuous improvement.

• Continuously improve trust by identifying opportunities to streamline workflows, increase automation, and improve signal quality, while maintaining a high bar for accuracy and quality.

You will act as a strategic partner to Platform, Security, Product, Agent Development, Legal, and GTM, ensuring security and compliance requirements are embedded into architecture decisions, product roadmaps, and go‑to‑market execution while supporting product velocity and technical complexity.

• 8+ years of experience in security compliance, privacy, or regulatory roles in SaaS, fintech, or AI companies.

• Deep experience with EU regulatory frameworks, including GDPR, DORA, EU AI Act and emerging AI regulations, paired with strong awareness of US and APAC regulatory norms.

• Demonstrated ability to operate globally understanding where requirements must diverge and where alignment is possible.

• Experience engaging directly with enterprise and regulated customers as a trusted representative of security, privacy, and compliance.

• Ability to translate abstract or evolving regulatory requirements into defensible, real‑world practices.

• Comfort operating in ambiguity, making reasoned judgment calls, and clearly articulating rationale and tradeoffs.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including close collaboration with Legal and external stakeholders.

• Direct experience preparing for or operationalizing DORA, EU AI Act or ISO/IEC 42001.

• Experience working in and/or supporting fintech or AI companies globally

• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks such as NIST AI RMF or CSA AI controls.

• Experience navigating cross‑border data transfer, residency, and localization consideration in a multi‑cloud environment.

• Prior experience in customer‑facing, sales‑adjacent, or deal‑support contexts.

• Experience automating global security and compliance workflows.

• Trust: We build trust with our…