Head of Global Assurance

Scale seeks a Head of Global Assurance to lead a high-performing team of technical experts advancing Scale’s assurance programs across its Global Public Sector and Commercial business units.

This is a leadership role for an experienced assurance, cybersecurity compliance, or GRC professional who can manage a team of senior technical experts, drive execution across complex government and customer requirements, and partner closely with Global Public Sector, Enterprise, Security, Engineering, Product, and the Legal team.

You Will

Ideally, You’d Have

• Lead assurance programs across Scale’s Global Public Sector and Commercial businesses, including FedRAMP, NIST frameworks, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other customer, regulatory, and business assurance requirements.
• Manage and develop a technical assurance team responsible for public sector authorizations, commercial assurance, audits, customer commitments, control evidence, remediation, and reporting.
• Set priorities and operating cadences for assurance workflows, including intake, evidence collection, control owner follow-up, remediation tracking, metrics, and deadline management.
• Build the metrics, dashboards, and reporting cadences that give company leadership a clear view of program health, key risks, and strategic priorities.
• Partner with Legal on contract-driven assurance obligations, sensitive escalations, external-facing responses, and customer-facing representation issues.
• Work closely with Global Public Sector, Enterprise, Security, Engineering, Product, and other control owners to validate evidence, track remediation, and support authorization and audit requirements.
• Collaborate across Legal and GRC on a unified controls framework for security and other regulatory requirements.
• Manage relationships with external auditors, assessors, and certification bodies.
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity compliance, GRC, public and commercial sector assurance, IT audit, cloud security, or related roles.
• Active U.S. security clearance, SCI eligible.
• Experience leading global or region-specific assurance programs through scalable control frameworks and cross-functional execution.
• Experience managing senior technical assurance, cybersecurity compliance, GRC, audit, or control evidence professionals.
• Experience managing distributed teams across time zones.
• Deep familiarity with FedRAMP, continuous monitoring, authorization packages, and related NIST frameworks.
• Experience leading customer assurance, control evidence, remediation, reporting, and audit workflows.
• Experience overseeing SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other commercial assurance frameworks.
• Experience with external assessors, authorizing officials, government customers, public sector partners, commercial auditors, or certification bodies.
• Experience working with legal teams on contract-driven assurance obligations, and strong judgment on when to escalate legal, contractual, technical, security, customer-facing, or privileged issues.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical assurance issues clearly to legal, business, security, and executive audiences.
• Experience developing compliance or assurance approaches for emerging technologies, including GenAI, AI/ML, data platforms, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience advising leadership on assurance, compliance, and risk tradeoffs in fast-moving technical environments.
• Experience with defense, federal civilian, classified, national security, GovCloud, or JAB authorization environments.
• Ability to translate new or ambiguous technical issues into practical compliance controls and implementation plans.

Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant. You'll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is: $287,200—$359,000 USD

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• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or similar credentials.

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