Manager, Security Assurance

Who Are We?

Postman is the world's leading collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API & streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster. More than 30 million developers & 500,000 organizations worldwide use Postman today, and we continue to strive humbly towards our mission of 100 million connected developers & serving companies as they seek to innovate in an API-first world. Our customers are doing more and more astounding things with the Postman product every day, and as a result, we are growing rapidly.

We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture & our vision at Postman.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced GRC leader to build out and scale our governance, risk, compliance, and privacy functions, as well as design and develop the appropriate programs and frameworks to cover Postman’s cyber risk and security assurance obligations. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to lead the operationalization of Postman’s automated governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) programs while also driving efforts to mature and optimize Postman’s security policies, risk management processes, and compliance with standards and regulations such as SOC2, ISO, NIST, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, FedRamp and PCI.

Cybersecurity is essential to what we do at Postman. Postman’s security team is responsible for cybersecurity across the entire organization, from employees to partners to customers. We help Postman design, build, deploy, and maintain secure software to ensure we're protecting every customer’s data and their investment in our products. We also focus on providing security intelligence and building tools to enable all “Postmanauts” (i.e., everyone who works at Postman) to feel a shared sense of responsibility for security and privacy concerns. Finally, we aim to constantly improve the security posture of our organization by iterating on our tooling and process.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and manage Postman’s security governance framework and cyber risk program to maintain the company’s compliance obligations 

• Manage and mature Postman’s security policy framework, vendor risk management, and security assurance programs.

• Recruit and manage a lean team of remote cyber risk professionals to simplify processes and relieve operational burdens

• Partner with business and engineering leaders to identify and evaluate risks/controls and make suggestions on mitigation strategies

• Work with key stakeholders to help guide the program and drive prioritization of risks for the company

• Work with cross-functional teams and leadership to drive organizational adoption efforts

• Implement the use of technology to streamline and automate manual controls 

• Manage legal, regulatory, and contractual compliance obligations

• Create and manage the company’s vendor risk management program

About You:

• 5-7 years of hands-on cyber risk, governance, and compliance leadership

• Proven experience developing or maturing GRC programs, preferably within a high-growth Cloud/SaaS environment

• Passionate and creative in the use of technology to streamline and automate manual processes 

• Experience with—and enthusiasm for—working with global, distributed teams

• Alignment with Postman’s values (you can find them listed on our careers page)

• An innate curiosity about how things work

• Lots of smiles

Our Values

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency & honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.

What Else?

If the role is based in the greater San Francisco area, and the we are offering a base range of $208,000 to 244,000 plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition to our pay-on-performance philosophy, we offer a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Salaries will vary outside of the listed metropolitan areas & the U.S.

Equal Opportunity

Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.