The Company You'll Join
Carta develops purpose-built software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful growth engine.
Carta's world-class fund administration platform supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under management in venture capital and private equity.
Trusted by more than 40,000 companies, Carta also helps private businesses in over 160 countries manage their cap tables, valuations, taxes, equity programs, compensation, and more.
Together, Carta is setting a new standard as the end-to-end platform for private markets. Our best-in-class solution for fund management seamlessly integrates investor and portfolio company insights via a suite of tools designed ground-up to support the strategic impact of the fund CFO.
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The Problems You'll Solve
At Carta, our employees set out on a mission to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. We believe that the problems we solve today unlock the opportunities of tomorrow.
As a Compliance Officer, you'll work to assess regulatory requirements and accordingly establish governance and risk frameworks. You will build and run security compliance programs to improve risk and compliance metrics. You will also build and manage policies and standards.
Here are some problems we'd love for you to help us solve:
- Build and manage information security compliance program aligned with business objectives
- Develop policies, standards, and guidelines for ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory requirements as well as alignment with security strategy
- Perform security assessments of vendors, third parties, and applications
- Review all technology and service provider contracts for adherence to our security standards
- Partner with cross functional teams including legal and engineering to review existing and new initiatives that could impact data privacy and other compliance requirements
- Manage risk program activities including risk registers, risk identification, tracking, and prioritization
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to assess their risk posture, control breakdowns, and influence them to adhere to security and compliance obligations
- Drive strong risk management practices, corporate resiliency, and regulatory compliance activities
- Review contracts with an information security lens
- Partner with system and process owners to build data maps that incorporate data stores and data flows
The Team You'll Work With
You will be part of a security-minded team that believes in progress over perfection and where security culture and mindset is key. Our team is rethinking how Risk Governance can be accomplished in innovative ways. We do not focus on building processes, but instead how to solve business problems while minimizing and managing risk exposure for Carta.
About You
We are looking for candidates who have:
- At least 3 years of experience in development and execution of governance, risk management, and compliance functions
- A strong understanding of information security and compliance frameworks including SOC 1/2, ISO, NIST, GDPR, CCPA, FINRA, SOX and SEC cybersecurity requirements
- Excellent judgment and the ability to make quick decisions when working with complex situations
- Solid organizational skills and ability to multitask/prioritize workloads
- Proven understanding of public cloud infrastructure and services in AWS and GCP including knowledge of cloud-native security protection measures, tools, and techniques
- The ability to understand and influence cross-functional teams to accomplish goals as well as communicating business risk from cybersecurity issues
We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, please connect with the talent partner via email.
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