Director of Product, Governance & Compliance

Vanta; United States; Hybrid; USD 286,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Remote workspace stipend

401(k) with matching

Flexible PTO

11 holidays

Office presence in SF and NYC

Job summary

Vanta is seeking a Director of Product to lead the evolution of agentic, AI-powered audit workflows and trust-related features for enterprise customers. You will own the strategy, roadmaps, and cross-functional execution across governance, compliance, and trust domains.

You will hire and grow a high-performing PM team, partner with GTM and engineering, and drive multi-entity deployments for Fortune 500 customers. A culture of shipping and learning fast is essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of Product Management experience with enterprise product instincts.
• 5+ years of hiring, managing, and growing high-performing teams.
• Experience scaling B2B SaaS products for SMB and enterprise customers.
• Ability to set clear product vision and business strategies for complex areas.
• Experience in fast-growing environments or large enterprises with fast-moving units.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and roadmap for autonomous audit agents powered by AI.
• Own Questionnaire Automation and Trust Centers to drive enterprise deals.
• Architect multi-entity, multi-region structures for Fortune 500 deployments.
• Own product strategy across trust, audit, and segmentation.
• Lead and grow PMs, mentoring strong product thinking and execution.
• Evolve strategy to an AI-first approach enabling agentic workflows.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to balance innovation, scalability and impact.

Skills

Product Management

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

B2B SaaS

Hiring & mentoring

Job description

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.

Vanta is the AI-powered Trust Management platform redefining how businesses earn and prove trust. As a Director of Product, you will lead Vanta’s expansion of agentic workflows, focused on audit and proof outcomes. You will own the strategy and vision for how agentic features and products can accelerate and simplify earning trust through audits, trust centers, questionnaires and more. You will drive an opinionated vision for how LLMs and agentic workflows are natively embedded into enterprise software and own the product strategy and deliver key capabilities that enable Vanta’s GRC product to meet the needs of our largest enterprise customers.

You will drive company-wide initiatives requiring deep partnerships across PMM, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams. You will help scale Vanta’s capabilities alongside our rapidly growing customer base and shape the culture and processes of the product team, all while growing the talented PMs you lead. This role reports directly to the VP of Product for Governance and Compliance.

What you’ll do as a Director of Product at Vanta:

• Set the vision and product roadmap for autonomous audit agents—transforming manual internal/external audit workflows into automated workflows, powered by AI
• Own Questionnaire Automation and Trust Centers, turning customer security postures into a competitive growth driver while partnering directly with EPD and GTM leadership to unblock enterprise deals.
• Architect the multi-entity, multi-region, and complex organizational structures (business units, divisions, subsidiaries) required to support Fortune 500-level enterprise deployments.
• Own the product strategy and roadmap for across trust, audit, and segmentation
• Inherit, lead and grow a product team: Hire and mentor product managers while establishing strong product thinking and execution.
• Evolve your area’s product strategy to an AI-first approach, enabling agentic workflows within the product and with the outside ecosystem
• Be accountable for critical business metrics, including:
• Revenue from products and add-ons under your purview.
• Enterprise customer adoption and satisfaction metrics.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define a vision and roadmap that balances innovation, scalability, and customer impact.

How To Be Successful In This Role

• 12+ years of Product Management experience with deep enterprise product instincts, having built for complex organization structures and B2B workflows.
• 5+ years of experience hiring, managing, and growing high-performing teams.
• A passion for scaling B2B SaaS products that serve SMB and enterprise customers alike.
• A track record of setting clear product vision and business strategies for complex product areas.
• Proven experience in a high-growth environment similar to Vanta’s size or larger; if coming from a large enterprise incumbent, must have experience leading a fast-moving business unit.
• A bias toward shipping and learning quickly
• A deep commitment to building high-quality products and fostering that culture across the organization.
• Strong decision-making skills, effectively balancing ambiguity, data, speed, and iteration.
• Experience with security or compliance products is helpful but not required.

What You Can Expect As a Vanta’n

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.

Compensation Range: $286K - $336K