Founding IT & Compliance Architect

Rilla; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Relocation assistance

Learning stipend

Rent stipend

Gym access

Commuter benefits

Meals in office

Job summary

Rilla, an in-office NYC team advancing AI-enabled compliance and IT infrastructure, seeks a founder-level BizOps leader to own SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001. You’ll automate workflows, design the IT backbone, and align engineering, HR, legal, and leadership to move quickly without breaking things.

You’ll sit on the BizOps team, build trusted systems, and ensure audit readiness as a scalable, AI-driven process from day one.

Qualifications

• A strong technical foundation. A computer science background or equivalent hands-on technical ability
• Genuine fluency with AI tools, and a track record of using them to automate real work
• Excellent written and verbal communication across technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfort shipping in ambiguity, with a bias for driving clarity and removing blockers
• The judgment to operate in regulated systems where the details matter

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain SOC 2, and drive HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001 to completion
• Automate compliance workflows with AI so audit readiness is continuous, not a scramble
• Build the systems, evidence pipelines, and processes that let us operate in regulated environments at speed
• Translate between engineering, HR, legal, and leadership. Turning ambiguous requirements into clear, tracked, delivered work
• Own device management, network troubleshooting, and day-to-day IT operations
• Stand up our IT foundation from scratch and choose the tooling we’ll grow into
• Create clear, trusted visibility into compliance and IT status for leadership
• Hold vendors and auditors accountable to timelines and outcomes

Skills

AI tooling fluency

Automation mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong communication

Regulated systems experience

Education

Computer science background

Tools

IT tooling selection

Job description

Rilla, an in-office NYC team advancing AI-enabled compliance and IT infrastructure, seeks a founder-level BizOps leader to own SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001. You’ll automate workflows, design the IT backbone, and align engineering, HR, legal, and leadership to move quickly without breaking things.

You’ll sit on the BizOps team, build trusted systems, and ensure audit readiness as a scalable, AI-driven process from day one.