Compliance Manager

Reflection; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier compensation

Stock options

Health & wellness

Meals

Life & family

Vacation days

Sponsorship support

Team building

Job summary

Reflection AI is seeking a senior compliance generalist to turn ambiguous, cross-cutting regulatory challenges into policies, SOPs, training, and monitoring across AI governance, data governance, privacy, and vendor risk.

You will partner with pillar leads and the Head of Compliance and AI Governance to stand up programs that scale with our growth while maintaining regulatory defensibility and strong stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years in compliance, risk, legal operations, or a related GRC function, ideally in tech or a regulated industry.
• Direct experience with at least one security framework (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST) and with TPRM/vendor risk processes.
• Demonstrated ability to own a problem end to end with minimal supervision across unfamiliar subject matter.
• Strong written communication; comfortable turning ambiguous asks into clear policies and SOPs.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Legal, Security, Privacy, People, and Engineering stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Stand up and maintain compliance processes and SOPs across pillars (e.g., insider risk, background checks, external reporting).
• Support security framework compliance posture (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53/800-171, CMMC) with evidence and audits.
• Own or support day-to-day TPRM operations: vendor questionnaires, risk tiering, onboarding reviews, remediation tracking.
• Respond to inbound customer and partner security/compliance questionnaires with subject-matter inputs.
• Partner with pillar leads to fill gaps, cover surge work, and keep cross-pillar initiatives moving.

Skills

Compliance leadership

GRC

Policy development

Security frameworks

TPRM

Cross-functional collaboration

Communications

Tools

Vanta

Job description

Our Mission

Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use, customize, and build on. We build open models that let anyone control their intelligence and help shape the future of AI. Our mission: make intelligence open and accessible to all.

Role Overview

Reflection AI's Compliance and AI Governance function spans six pillars: AI Governance, Data Governance, Trade Compliance, Privacy Operationalization, Government Contracting Compliance, and Corporate Compliance. The team builds the policies, controls, and operating rhythms that let the company move fast while staying defensible with regulators, customers, and partners.

We're looking for a senior generalist who can flex across multiple pillars rather than own a single lane. You'll take ambiguous, cross-cutting problems (a new regulation, a customer due-diligence request, an internal process gap) and turn them into working programs: policies, SOPs, training, and monitoring. This role is a force multiplier for the pillar leads and a direct partner to the Head of Compliance and AI Governance.

What You'll Do

• Stand up and maintain compliance processes and SOPs across pillars (e.g., insider risk, background checks, external reporting process, vendor/compliance tooling)

• Support our security framework compliance posture (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53/800-171, CMMC) by maintaining evidence, coordinating with control owners, and prepping for audits and assessments

• Own or support day-to-day TPRM operations: vendor security questionnaires, risk tiering, onboarding reviews, and tracking remediation of vendor findings

• Respond to inbound customer and partner security/compliance questionnaires, pulling in subject-matter owners as needed

• Partner with pillar leads (AI Governance, Data Governance, Trade Compliance, Privacy, Gov Contracting) to fill gaps, cover surge work, and keep cross-pillar initiatives moving

• Draft and maintain policies, process documentation, and training materials for internal and external audiences

• Track regulatory developments (AI, data, privacy) and translate them into concrete internal workstreams

• Prepare materials for leadership and cross-functional updates (steering committees, exec reporting, knowledge-share sessions)

• Identify process gaps and build the scaffolding (trackers, templates, intake forms) to close them

What We're Looking for

• 4-7 years in compliance, risk, legal operations, or a related GRC function, ideally in tech or a regulated industry

• Direct experience with at least one security framework (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST) and with TPRM/vendor risk processes (questionnaires, risk tiering, onboarding review)

• Demonstrated ability to own a problem end to end with minimal supervision, across unfamiliar subject matter

• Strong written communication; comfortable turning ambiguous asks into clear policies and SOPs

• Experience working cross-functionally with Legal, Security, Privacy, People, and Engineering stakeholders

• Comfortable context-switching across multiple active workstreams

• Exposure to AI governance, data privacy (GDPR/CCPA), export controls (ITAR/EAR), or federal contracting compliance (CMMC, FAR/DFARS)

• Experience with GRC or compliance tooling (e.g., Vanta or similar platforms)

• Experience responding to customer-facing security questionnaires or supporting enterprise sales/procurement cycles

• Prior experience in a high-growth or startup environment where the compliance function is still being built

What We Offer:

We believe that to make intelligence open and accessible to all, you need to start at the foundation. Joining Reflection means building from the ground up as part of a talent-dense team. You will help define our future as a company, and help define the future of open foundational models.

We want you to do the most impactful work of your career with the confidence that you and the people you care about most are supported.

• Top-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.

• Stock options: Everyone who joins and contributes to Reflection's success gets to share in the upside through stock options.

• Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life, with an annual wellness allowance.

• Meals: Lunch and dinner are provided in the office daily.

• Life & family: 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys.

• Vacation days: Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.

• Sponsorship support: We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long‑term immigration pathways where applicable.

• Team building: We have regular off‑sites, happy hours, and team celebrations.

Export Control Notice: This position may require access to technology or source code subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Any offer of employment for this role may be conditioned on the Company's ability to provide the candidate with access to such technology or source code in compliance with applicable U.S. export control laws, which may require the Company to seek government authorization.

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