Technical GRC Analyst (Compliance & Assurance)

Role Summary

Technical GRC Analyst (Compliance & Assurance)

As part of the Tessera Lab Compliance & Assurance team, you'll help build and maintain trust by partnering across the business to provide practical, risk-based compliance and assurance that enables the company to scale with confidence.

As a Technical GRC Analyst, you'll partner with Security, Engineering, Product, and business teams to evaluate technical controls, validate evidence, assess risk, and continuously improve the organization's compliance and assurance program.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys understanding how technology works, asking thoughtful questions, solving problems, and helping build a modern compliance program that scales with the business.

Your Focus Areas

• Technical Control Assurance and Risk Assessments
• AI Governance & Emerging Technologies (ISO 42001)
• Technical Customer Assurance
• Program Intelligence, Metrics & Analytics
• Compliance Automation & Continuous Improvement

Working knowledge in several of the following areas

• Cloud and security architecture concepts
• Vulnerability and risk management
• Secure software development and DevSecOps concepts
• Data protection and encryption
• AI governance and emerging technologies
• Dashboard development, reporting,analytics and automation

You're someone who

• Enjoys understanding how technology works and asking thoughtful questions.
• Can translate technical concepts into practical compliance conversations
• Exercise sound judgment when evaluating controls, validating evidence, and balancing compliance requirements with practical business needs.
• Builds trusted relationships across teams.
• Takes ownership and enjoys improving processes.
• Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment.

What Success Looks Like

• Technical controls are consistently evaluated and continuously improved.
• Leadership has meaningful visibility into technical risks and control effectiveness.
• Dashboards and metrics support informed business decisions.
• Customer and audit activities are well supported through high-quality evidence and strong technical assurance.

Salary: $50K – $60K

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of technical controls.
• Review and validate evidence to assess whether controls are implemented, operating effectively, and appropriately documented.
• Perform technical risk assessments for new technologies, systems, and business initiatives.
• Partner with Engineering and Security to ensure technical controls align with compliance requirements and industry best practices.
• Support and continuously improve the company’s AI governance program — AI policies, acceptable-use standards, risk assessments, vendor evaluations, and security controls aligned with ISO 42001.
• Transform compliance data into meaningful insights that support business decisions and program maturity.
• Identify opportunities to automate compliance activities and improve operational efficiency.
• Support internal assessments, customer due diligence, and external audits.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in technical security, Security GRC, regulatory compliance, or a related discipline.
• Experience evaluating technical controls and validating supporting evidence.
• Experience performing technical risk assessments and working with cross-functional teams.
• Experience working in technology organizations with modern cloud and enterprise environments.
• Exposure to FedRAMP authorization activities including NIST 800-53 control implementation, SSP development, evidence collection, POA&M management, or readiness assessments is highly desirable.

About the Company

ABOUT TESSERA LABS

Tessera Labs is a new category of enterprise software: an AI platform that changes how the world's largest companies run.

Every large enterprise carries the same weight — decades of accumulated process, data, and code that no longer match the business it has become. Changing any of it is a program measured in years and hundreds of millions of dollars, staffed by armies of consultants, and it fails more often than anyone admits. Most companies have quietly accepted this as the cost of being large.

We don't. Tessera is a transformation engine: a governed, multi-agent platform that understands an enterprise's process, data, and code as one connected system and changes it in weeks rather than years. We're vendor-agnostic by design — SAP, Salesforce, Workday, Oracle, Snowflake, MuleSoft — and tied to none of them.

Two things make this hard, and they're the reason the job is interesting. Governance: every action is logged, traceable, and reversible, because our customers are regulated and these are the systems that close their books. And generality: the platform has to work on landscapes it has never seen, at companies whose complexity is genuinely unique to them.

We sell a product, not a service. Our people are here to make the product successful, not the other way around. If you've watched enterprise AI companies quietly become consultancies, that distinction is the one to press us on.