Senior Director, GRC (AI)

Location: San Francisco, California, United States; in-person onboarding is required.

Salary: $236,000–$325,000 USD annual base salary for San Francisco Bay Area candidates. Additional regional ranges are listed for California outside the Bay Area, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington.

Company

Okta builds trusted identity infrastructure that helps organizations securely adopt AI and protect workforce and customer identities.

What you will do

• Lead and scale the Security Governance, Risk and Compliance organization.
• Integrate AI and agentic tools into GRC operations, including automated evidence collection, risk scoring, policy mapping, and continuous audit readiness.
• Operationalize AI risk and governance covering training data protection, model risk management, responsible AI, and emerging AI regulations.
• Lead enterprise-wide cyber risk identification, prioritization, treatment, and quantification.
• Manage global compliance programs, audits, customer assurances, regulatory reviews, and engineering-led remediation.
• Partner with Product Management, Legal, Privacy, Infrastructure, and Business Technology to align security requirements with product and commercial objectives.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive Security GRC leadership experience in a high-growth SaaS, cloud-first, or enterprise technology environment.
• Experience with generative and agentic AI security, data lineage, AI/ML governance, and global AI regulations.
• Extensive experience managing compliance for enterprise cloud environments and security frameworks including SOC, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, CSA STAR, and related standards.
• Deep knowledge of risk management methodologies and the ability to communicate technical risks to executives.
• Experience recruiting, mentoring, and retaining technical GRC engineering and risk management teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) and flexible spending account.
• Paid leave, including paid time off and parental leave.
• Equity and bonus opportunities where applicable.
• In-person onboarding focused on connection and accelerated impact.
• Global community spanning more than 20 offices.