Automattic
Director of Compliance
Automattic
$190k - $260k
Worldwide (Remote)
Kubernetes

Director of Compliance

Overview

Automattic is seeking a Director of Compliance for its WordPress VIP (WPVIP) division to lead and establish a world-class Compliance function, focusing on public sector expansion and regulatory compliance.

Job Description

Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, and more. It’s a mission-driven, distributed company committed to democratizing publishing and commerce.

Responsibilities

  • - Ensure attainment of FedRAMP Moderate ATO and lead and execute ongoing processes such as ConMon, Annual Assessments, and SCR (Significant Change Request) activities.
  • - Collaborate with stakeholders to define a quarterly roadmap for the Compliance function to help address two key areas: (1) output activities to ensure certifications (such as FedRAMP) and customer commitments are assured and (2) foundational activities to improve Compliance related operations with measurable impact.
  • - Develop and maintain documentation for all Compliance-related activities.
  • - Work across product, engineering, systems, and legal teams to identify and manage privacy, data protection risks, and compliance requirements to help meet business needs.
  • - Select and implement appropriate systems and reporting protocols to support multiple sets of certifications, documentation requirements, control families on one side, and to support provision of appropriate documentation to auditors, sponsoring agencies, customers, etc. on the other side.
  • - Engage and consult with executive and senior leaders to align Compliance and Security programs with business goals.
  • - Participate in customer stakeholder calls to understand new customer requirements and to guide these interactions to help balance commitments to ability to deliver.
  • - Build, scale, and manage our compliance team to support our needs as an enterprise-focused, distributed company.
  • - Promote a culture of compliance throughout the organization.
  • - Triage and manage all compliance-related priorities including support for RFPs.

Required Skills

  • - Domain expertise in public sector related compliance, possessing deep understanding of federal regulations and frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST, and FISMA.
  • - Deep experience with FedRAMP processes for AR, OR, and SCR; and when to leverage each.
  • - Experience in successfully obtaining and/or maintaining FedRAMP Moderate (or higher) certifications for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS solutions or experience working at an accredited 3PAO and having structured and performed assessments for multiple CSPs within the past three years.
  • - One or more relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISA, or CRISC.
  • - Experience working with sales teams to respond to RFPs, VSQs, and other questionnaires from prospects and customers.
  • - Experience leading and motivating cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams and scaling compliance-related operations.
  • - Experience engaging with Compliance and Info Security teams at Enterprise customers to understand requirements and to co-develop solutions.
  • - Experience with Cloud computing and containerization tools (eg. Kubernetes).
  • - Understanding of international, federal, state, and local laws concerning data acquisition, protection, and transmission.
  • - Must be a resident of the contiguous United States.

Benefits

  • - Competitive salary ranging between $190,000 and $260,000 USD, paid in local currency.
  • - Learn more about compensation philosophy and benefits on Automattic's website.

About the company

We are the people behind WordPress.com, Woo, Jetpack, WordPress VIP, Simplenote, Longreads, The Atavist, WPScan, Akismet, Gravatar, Crowdsignal, Cloudup, Tumblr, Day One, Pocket Casts, Newspack, Beeper, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.