Senior Security Assurance Manager

About Trase

Co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig, Trase Systems is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the “last mile” of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings. Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation, topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, ahead of industry giants such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. We are leveraging our cutting-edge technologies to develop mission-critical agentic applications in complex industries such as Healthcare, Oil & Gas, and National Security. 

About the Role

As the Senior Security Assurance Manager, you will own the strategic governance backbone of Trase's Security and Compliance program, implementing and overseeing the processes, policies, and controls that allow us to operate safely and credibly in highly-regulated markets.

You will define and steward Trase's security policies and procedures, lead internal and external audits, and conduct comprehensive risk assessments across the organization. You will be the primary owner of our SOC 2 and HIPAA programs and champion of our broader GRC functions (e.g., risk management, policy documentation, control design, continuous monitoring, etc.).

This is a player-coach role. You will operate hands-on across contexts and stakeholder groups while building the team, processes, and tooling that allow Trase's governance capabilities to scale alongside the business.

Why This Role Exists

Trase is rapidly solving mission-critical challenges in some of the most highly regulated markets in the world, where customer trust and assurance are non-negotiable. As we grow our global footprint and our compliance landscape evolves, we need a senior leader who can scale our security and compliance posture so that it is always a core tenet of who we are and what we deliver.

This role is an investment in the next chapter of Trase security assurance. It is aimed at maturing our continuous monitoring and control frameworks, sharpening how we manage enterprise risk, and ensuring that our combined security capabilities continue to build trust and unlock net-new opportunities.

Responsibilities

Compliance Program Ownership

• Own and operate Trase's SOC 2 and HIPAA programs end-to-end, including scoping, control design, evidence collection, and remediation tracking.
• Lead readiness and execution for additional frameworks as Trase enters new markets, including ISO 27001, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, CMMC, and ISO 42001.
• Manage the full lifecycle of internal and external audits, serving as the primary point of contact for auditors, assessors, and regulators.

Governance, Risk & Control Design

• Maintain Trase's enterprise risk register, conducting recurring risk assessments across people, process, and technology.
• Design, document, and operationalize security policies, standards, and procedures aligned to industry frameworks and Trase's risk appetite.
• Own our common control framework in Drata, monitoring and refining controls across overlapping regimes to minimize duplication and audit burden.

Continuous Monitoring & Control Assurance

• Shift Trase's compliance posture from reactive to proactive by implementing continuous control monitoring, automated evidence collection, and recurring control testing.
• Define KRIs, KPIs, and reporting cadences that give leadership real-time visibility into the health of the security program.
• Identify control gaps, perform root cause analysis, and drive remediation in partnership with control owners across the enterprise.

Vendor & Third-Party Risk

• Enhance and operate Trase's third-party risk management program, including vendor security reviews, ongoing monitoring, and contractual security requirements.
• Partner with Legal to ensure DPAs, BAAs, and security addenda meet regulatory and customer requirements.

Customer Trust & Sales Enablement

• Serve alongside other subject matter experts or leaders, as a senior representative in customer security reviews, RFPs, and prospect-facing trust conversations.
• Maintain trust collateral (SOC 2 reports, security questionnaires, trust portal content) and reduce friction in customer due diligence.
• Translate customer and regulator expectations into actionable program requirements.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner closely with peers within Trase Security and Compliance, Engineering, and across the enterprise to ensure controls are operating effectively, as designed.
• Collaborate with Legal, HR, IT, and Finance on shared control ownership and program execution.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in security assurance, GRC, controls engineering, or information security audit roles, including several years in a senior or program-owning capacity.
• Deep, hands-on experience owning or supporting SOC 2 and HIPAA programs end-to-end, including managing external auditors or internal assessors.
• Strong working knowledge of additional frameworks including ISO 27001, FedRAMP (Moderate/High), NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, and CMMC, preferably with experience mapping or consolidating their underlying requirements within common control frameworks (CCF).
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating continuous control monitoring programs to achieve situational awareness before issues materialize as findings in external contexts (e.g., audits).
• Proven ability to author clear, defensible security policies, standards, procedures, and memoranda.
• Strong risk management foundation, including hands-on experience conducting risk assessments and maintaining a risk register.
• Experience leading customer-facing security reviews, RFP responses, and trust conversations with sophisticated enterprise buyers or partners.
• Track record of partnering effectively with engineering and product teams to design controls into systems rather than around them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between auditors, executives, customers, and engineers.
• Strong affinity and practical skill for working with LLMs and AI agents as part of your own workflow—clear judgment on when and how to deploy them to move quickly, orchestrate work, and operate with confidence.

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling a compliance program inside a high-growth startup or scale-up.
• Experience with FedRAMP authorization (3PAO assessment, ATO process), DoD RMF, HITRUST, or StateRAMP.
• Familiarity with ISO 42001 or other emerging AI governance frameworks.
• Industry-recognized certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, or HCISPP.
• Experience supporting customers in healthcare, defense, energy, or other regulated verticals.
• Familiarity with modern GRC platforms (e.g., ServiceNow IRM, Vanta, Drata, Hyperproof, OneTrust) and a clear point of view on the tradeoffs between them.

Salary Range: $170,000-$230,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.

Trase-Specific Benefits:

For full-time roles only 

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows 
• 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
• Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.