# Senior Director, GRC

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $264,000-$363,000 USD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Director, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) to lead and scale our world-class GRC Security organisation.

You will operate as a partner to Senior Executives across Okta's workforce, taking direct responsibility for cyber risk, data governance, security compliance, and product certifications.

Key responsibilities:

- Drive AI-first Transformation: Execute a vision to integrate AI and agentic tools into daily GRC operations.

- Enterprise Risk & Governance: Operationalize Okta's AI risk and governance framework.

- Enterprise Cyber Risk Management: Lead enterprise-wide cyber risk identification, prioritization, treatment, and quantification.

- Regulatory & Compliance Assurance: Maintain and expand Okta's global compliance posture.

- Policy & Governance Lifecycle: Ensure corporate information security policies and control standards reflect evolving business priorities and emerging threats.

- Third-Party & SaaS Risk Governance: Direct high-impact vendor risk assessment programs.

- Audit Management & Remediation: Serve as the primary executive lead for internal/external audits.

- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with Product Management, Legal, Privacy, Infrastructure, and Business Technology teams.

Requirements:

- Proven Executive Leadership: 10+ years of progressive leadership in Security GRC.

- AI Governance Expertise: Demonstrated understanding of AI/ML governance challenges.

- Mastery of Security Frameworks: Extensive track record managing compliance for enterprise cloud environments.

- Risk Quantification Skills: Deep knowledge of risk management methodologies.

- Team Scale & Mentorship: Track record of recruiting, mentoring, and retaining high-performing GRC engineering and risk management professionals.

- Education & Certifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

## Skills

### Required
- AI Governance
- GRC Leadership
- Cyber Risk Management
- Compliance
- Risk Quantification
- Team Management

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