Compliance Operations Lead

About Gov Signals

We are shaping the future of government contracting with breakthrough AI‑driven solutions. We are disrupting a multi‑billion dollar industry and enabling private‑sector technologies to secure government contracts faster than ever, strengthening national security and driving economic growth.

Gov Signals has built the most advanced government‑contracting AI platform available. From small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, our platform multiplies the opportunities contractors can pursue and empowers them to deliver fully compliant, winning proposals in hours instead of months. As one of the largest aggregators of U.S. government data, we set trends rather than follow them.

In government contracting, compliance is a moat. FedRAMP High, IL5, CMMC Level 2, SOC 2—these are the gates that decide which platforms get to serve the DoD, the Intelligence Community, and the largest agencies in the federal government. We need a Compliance Operations Lead who treats that gate as offense, not paperwork.

This is not a role where you write policy docs, file them in a binder, and chase tickets through a GRC tool. You will own Gov Signals' entire security and compliance posture end‑to‑end—architecting the program, automating the evidence, partnering directly with engineering, and standing in front of customers and auditors as the face of our trust story. You'll move at product speed.

When a control fails or an auditor flags an exception, you fix it because it's yours.

Compliance at Gov Signals is a product. It ships, it scales, and it has to keep up with an aggressive engineering cadence. We want someone who automates evidence collection in CI/CD instead of chasing screenshots. Someone who treats every customer security review as a sales asset, not a tax. Someone who has done this before at a high‑growth defense or dual‑use startup—and knows the difference between checking the box and building something defensible.

This role reports directly into the founding team. You will have full company support to hit our compliance milestones, and you'll be expected to prioritize compliance as a means to an end—shipping product and unlocking customers.

Compliance Program Ownership

• Build and run the master compliance program covering FedRAMP High, IL5, CMMC Level 2, SOC 2, and adjacent public‑sector frameworks.

• Drive the FedRAMP High ATO roadmap end‑to‑end, including 3
  
  PAO coordination, agency sponsorship navigation, and continuous monitoring once authorized

• Maintain a forward‑looking compliance roadmap that anticipates new frameworks, customer requirements, and regulatory changes—we shouldn't be reacting; we should be ahead

Evidence Automation & Audit Readiness

• Own evidence management end‑to‑end: gather, organize, and automate collection so we are audit‑ready every day, not the week before fieldwork

• Stand up automated policy checks, control evidence capture, and continuous monitoring tooling—if it can be scripted, it should be

• Lead quarterly and annual security documentation cycles, coordinate penetration tests and red‑team engagements, and track remediation through to closure

Customer Trust, BD & Sales Enablement

• Be the primary voice on enterprise security questionnaires and customer trust calls—we win deals when buyers trust our posture

• Partner directly with Sales as a front‑line credibility asset—join customer pitches and discovery calls, brief prospects on our compliance roadmap, and close the trust gap that often decides seven‑figure deals

• Help represent Gov Signals at industry conferences, customer events, and federal/defense forums—build relationships with security leaders at target accounts and bring back signal that shapes our roadmap

• Translate complex compliance posture into clear narratives for both technical security teams and non‑technical executives

• Build and maintain a customer‑facing trust center, security collateral, and reusable response library that compresses sales cycles

Engineering Partnership

• Embed secure‑by‑design practices alongside engineering—policy checks in CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code guardrails, hardened deployment pipelines

• Identify smart, outside‑of-the‑box…