Head of GRC

Amplitude is the leading Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform, helping over 4,300 customers-including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, Square, and Under Armour-build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories by G2, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com.

As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do.

Amplitude's Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI) : Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion-one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection-that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

About The Role & Team

As a Senior Staff GRC Engineer, you will report to the CISO and operate as our Governance, Risk & Compliance leader. You will be hands-on and highly influential, executing on GRC goals while enabling GTM and supporting deals. You'll design and drive governance efforts across the company and mature risk management end-to-end. By balancing strategic governance with time-sensitive deal work, you will elevate Amplitude's security posture and sales velocity simultaneously. Your engineering skills and experience will enable you to automate and codify GRC solutions in a highly technical environment. As our program scales, you'll help cultivate a culture of security by advocating and mentoring across the company.

As a Senior Staff GRC Engineer, you will :

• Design and build lean, effective governance, both for traditional security and compliance needs as well as a rapidly evolving landscape of AI risks
• Lead enterprise risk management, evolving our approach, elevating the right risks to the right levels of management, and stewarding the company to continually drive risk down
• Own customer deal support end-to-end, triaging requests, coordinating SMEs, aligning content with Security and Legal, satisfying questionnaires and audits, and continuously shortening our cycle time
• Drive third-party risk management, perform due diligence, collaborate with vendors to perform assessments, provide risk-based recommendations and approvals
• Support our certification and attestation goals, aligning on control design and implementation with Engineering, Security, IT, Legal and HR
• Apply engineering skills and experience to automate GRC controls and risk telemetry, continually reduce manual labor, increase governance efficacy, and achieve continuous compliance
• Maintain customer-facing trust collateral and the Trust Center

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have :

Who We Are

The Company : Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work : we're tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.

The Product : Amplitude is a digital analytics platform-we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We're super proud of what we've built and continue to expand : a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

We care about the well-being of our team : We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.

Some of our benefit programs include :

Other fun facts about Amplitude :

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.

Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range : $229,000 - $344,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in New York City, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range : $255,000 - $384,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range : $255,000 - $384,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range : $229,000 - $344,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range : $229,000 - $344,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only : unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.

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