Governance Risk and Compliance Lead

Owner; Remote; CAD 215,000 - 313,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions company is seeking a highly skilled GRC Specialist to help navigate the complexities of Risk, Compliance, and Vulnerability Management. This remote role can be located anywhere in the U.S. or Canada. Responsibilities include driving compliance, advising leadership, and enhancing system security. The estimated salary is $155,000 to $225,000 with a pre-IPO equity package and additional benefits like comprehensive health coverage and unlimited PTO.

Benefits

Comprehensive health coverage

Unlimited PTO

Pre-IPO equity package

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience working with compliance frameworks.
• 5+ years of experience in Cyber Security.
• Demonstrated success running a complex security program.

Responsibilities

• Drive compliance efforts to unlock business capabilities.
• Secure the company by helping teams prevent and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Advise leadership on handling security risk.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Experience with compliance frameworks (PCI / ISO)

Cyber Security expertise

Technical understanding with development teams

Job description

About

Owner.com is the AI growth system for local restaurants.

Owner is the AI growth system for local restaurants.

Our AI continuously improves SEO, marketing, and online ordering to grow first-party orders. Unlike other companies that force small business owners to master their software to drive sales, Owner gives them a proven system run by experts.

Owner is like having an army of engineers and marketers on your side, just like the big chains.

Our vision

We’re starting by helping independent restaurants succeed online.

But it’s not just restaurants that need our help. Most local businesses are struggling with these same problems. Huge technology corporations are taking their customers, bleeding their profits, and making it hard for them to survive.

Once we nail the solution for restaurants–we’ll scale it into every other local business type.

In the future we envision, tens of millions of local business owners will use our technology to succeed in the digital age.

Read our Series C memo here →

Our traction

Since 2020, we\'ve generatedtens of millions in revenue and processed over half a billion dollars of online orders. 1 in 5 Americans have used an Owner.com website.

More importantly, we’ve helped over 20,000 restaurant owners, and saved them nearly $200 million in fees.

Our team

Our team is now in the low hundreds. We’ve got top talent from the most successful companies in SMB software, including: Shopify, HubSpot, DoorDash, ServiceTitan, Rappi, Faire and Stripe.

We’ll be scaling even faster in 2026 to keep pace with our customer growth.

Where we work

Owner is a remote-first, global company headquartered in San Francisco, with a sales hub in Toronto. For a few of our roles we prioritize in-person collaboration at one of our office locations. Most of our teammates are distributed throughout the globe. Please review the role description and discuss with your recruiter for more details on location!

Why we’re looking for you

Owner is seeking a highly skilled GRC Specialist with great energy and experience working with modern software development companies to help us navigate the ever increasing complexity of Risk, Compliance and Vulnerability Management that come along with our rapid growth.

This role is 100% remote and can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada

The impact you will have

• Drive compliance efforts to unlock business capabilities
• Secure Owner by helping teams successfully prevent and remediate vulnerabilities
• Help teams build better and more secure systems by avoiding pitfalls of risk.
• Advise senior leadership in regards to handling security risk at Owner.

Who you’ll work with

• You will work cross functionally with every corner of the business supporting our security journey.
• You will work closely with security leadership to drive major initiatives around around GRC at Owner.

What we’re looking for

• Strong communication and problem solving skills
• 3+ Years experience working with compliance frameworks like PCI / ISO
• 5+ Years experience in Cyber Security
• Technical understanding and experience working with development teams.
• Demonstrated track record of success running a complex security program at a start up

Pay and benefits

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $155,000 to $225,000, plus a generous pre-IPO equity package
• Other benefits include comprehensive health coverage, remote-first workplace, unlimited PTO - plus extra fun perks!
• This range can fall within several levels from Senior to Principal depending on experience

$155,000 - $225,000 a year

This range can fall within several levels from Senior to Principal depending on experience.

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