Sr. Manager of Compliance and Risk Management

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Regular Full-Time Remote, US

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Senior Manager of Compliance and Risk Management

Parallels has an immediate vacancy for this role.

Push the boundaries of tech. In your sweatpants.

Parallels is seeking a Senior Manager of Compliance and Risk Management to support the ongoing maturity of our Governance, Risk, and Compliance program. This role is primarily focused on third-party risk management, responding to customer RFPs and security/vendor questionnaires, ensuing organization-wide compliance to common security, privacy, and AI frameworks, and leading, creating and managing the risk register, and policy development. In addition, this position will lead all infrastructure and product security or privacy incidents ensuring full compliance with required regulations.

This is a blended role: you’ll own audit readiness and control testing for our certifications while also driving enterprise and third-party risk management and compliance. You’ll work directly with external auditors and assessors, and partner closely with Security, Legal, IT, HR, and Engineering to keep the program audit-ready year-round.

The ideal candidate is experienced in third-party risk management, has worked on customer RFPs, security questionnaires, policy development, and is familiar with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and DORA. Must be comfortable working cross-functionally with IT, Legal, and business stakeholders.

The top creative and technical minds could work anywhere. So why are so many of them choosing Parallels? Here are three reasons:

• This is the moment.It’s an exciting time at Parallels, with strong leadership, a refreshed brand, and a whole new approach to changing the way the world works. We’re at the forefront of a movement, and we want you to ride this wave with us.
• We want you to be you.Too often, companies tell you about their culture and then expect you to fit it. Our culture is built from the people who work here. We want you to feel safe to be who you are, take risks, and show us what you’ve got.
• It’s your world.We know you have a life. We want to be part of it, but not all of it. At Parallels, we’re serious about empowering people to work when, how, and where they want. Couch? Sweatpants? Cool with us. We believe that happy employees mean happy customers. That’s why we hire amazing people and get out of their way.

Sound good so far? Awesome. Let’s talk more about the Senior Manager of Compliance and Risk Management role and see if we’re destined to be together.

As a Senior Manager of Compliance and Risk Management, you will:

What YOU bring to the team:

• Monitor organizational compliance with internal policies and external regulations. Track control performance, identify gaps, and prepare regular compliance status reports for leadership.
• Monitor regulatory and framework changes (e.g., EU Data Act) and assess their impact on the compliance program.
• Respond to customer RFPs and security/vendor questionnaires, coordinating with subject matter experts to ensure accurate and timely responses. Maintain a library of standard responses and supporting evidence.
• Work directly with sales to attend customer calls for large enterprise customers.
• Maintain the organization’s Trust Center to enable customers and partners to quickly find compliance, security, and privacy information, with the goal of automating responses for repeat questions.
• Define and manage the third-party risk management program, including vendor security assessments, due diligence reviews, and ongoing monitoring of…