Snowflake
Senior Compliance Analyst, Governance Programs
US-CA-Menlo Park, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
You will define and scale governance programs and strengthen compliance architecture. You will partner with leaders across IT, Legal, Product, Security, and Engineering to raise security posture and build customer trust.
What you will do
- Build a deep understanding of regulated-industry compliance requirements and how they apply to Snowflake.
- Establish and run programs that manage Snowflake's compliance posture against requirements.
- Lead customer and regulator audits.
- Become an expert on Snowflake's control environment, security features, and best practices for customer deployments.
- Serve as a trusted advisor on Snowflake's security and compliance obligations and documentation.
- Respond to customer and regulator inquiries.
- Build self-service resources for customers and field teams.
- Join sales conversations to explain Snowflake's security and compliance capabilities.
Required qualifications
- Proven program management experience, including leading cross-functional initiatives without direct authority over contributors.
- Experience writing and maintaining governance artifacts, including policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines.
- Ability to influence stakeholders across Engineering, IT, Legal, and Security to drive control implementation and remediation.
- Solid knowledge of at least one recognized governance or risk framework, such as ISO 27001, SOC 1/SOC 2, or NIST CSF.
- Ability to translate governance requirements into practical controls and processes that operational teams actually adopt.
- Experience using AI to automate or streamline manual compliance workflows.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of experience in risk management, compliance, GRC, or a related governance function preferred
- CISSP, CRISC, CISA, or other information security certifications
- Experience with NIST 800-53 or HIPAA
About the company
Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company is growing fast and scaling its team to enable and accelerate growth.