Audit, Security GRC

About the Position

We are looking for an experienced professional to join our Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team. You will help run Anthropic's unified audit program across SOC 2, HIPAA, and the ISO 27000 family, including ISO 42001. This role involves planning new audits, running gap assessments, and driving automation in the audit program.

About the Team

Anthropic's Security GRC team is dedicated to ensuring the company's accountability to its security commitments. We translate regulatory, customer, and voluntary obligations into actionable controls and provide leadership with a comprehensive view of our compliance status.

Responsibilities

• Run the audit program as a program: one integrated plan and calendar across audits and expansions, with milestones, dependencies, risks, and decisions tracked, and regular status to GRC leadership and stakeholders.
• Plan and run the quarterly audits, from scoping through report and findings closeout.
• Run audit readiness ahead of each fieldwork window: control owner prep, evidence pre-checks, and walkthrough dry runs.
• Scope each audit's boundary with Product and Engineering: which products and deployment paths are in scope, and flag when a launch or new platform changes it.
• Help build the audit operating model and runbook for a unified audit program, and keep both current as the program grows.
• Drive automation in the program: evidence collected from source systems, request tracking, and audit reporting, with evidence and walkthroughs reused across frameworks.
• Coordinate audits across frameworks and firms so audit windows line up and control owners are asked for the same evidence once, and drive new ways of automated evidence generation and collection with GRC Engineering.
• Plan new audits and audit expansions as we commit to them.
• Run framework and scope expansion evaluations and gap assessments, with a recommendation and an effort estimate leadership can act on.
• Work closely with control owners and GRC Partners: prepare control owners for audits, get evidence delivered and findings closed, and hand findings that need extended remediation to GRC Partners.
• Manage day-to-day auditor relationships, and report audit status, findings, and program metrics to GRC leadership.

Requirements

• Minimum qualifications

  • Several years of program management: running multi-workstream programs with a plan, milestones, dependencies, risk tracking, and status reporting to leadership.
  • Several years running external security audits (SOC 2 and ISO 27001 at minimum), on the company side or at an audit firm, including seasons with several frameworks at once.
  • Working knowledge of SOC 2, the ISO 27000 family, ISO 42001, and HIPAA, and where their requirements overlap.
  • Experience leading a gap assessment for a new framework or scope change and presenting the result to leadership.
  • Experience building or improving an audit process: calendars, request tracking, runbooks, roles, and responsibilities.
  • Enough technical fluency to understand how evidence is produced in cloud environments and to judge whether a system-generated report is complete and accurate, and to build simple automations with Claude.
  • Clear writing and calm coordination under deadline pressure.
  • Ability to get control owners to deliver on time without authority over them.

• Preferred qualifications

  • Audit firm experience (Big 4 or a SOC 2 or ISO certification body), especially as a senior or manager on technology clients.
  • Experience adding new frameworks such as PCI DSS, ISO 27701 or 27018, CSA STAR, or international schemes (for example IRAP, ISMAP, or C5).
  • Have automated evidence collection or audit reporting, or use Claude or other LLMs day-to-day to plan, track, and report program work.
  • Experience with a GRC platform or building lightweight internal tooling.

We Offer

• Annual Salary: $255,000 - $270,000 USD
• Locations: San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC
• Hybrid Work Policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• Visa Sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

About the Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact - advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI - rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

Apply for this Job

Interested in building your career at Anthropic? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email.