Senior GRC Lead - AI Governance & Certifications

Legora; New York (NY); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-person office: Union Square (NYC)

Daily lunch provided

Comprehensive medical, dental & vision

Job summary

Legora is seeking a senior GRC/Security professional to own our assurance program end to end, including certifications, AI governance, and risk leadership. You’ll interface with auditors, regulators, and customer security teams, shaping controls that scale across products and acquisitions.

You’ll drive an evidence-driven program aligned with NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, and various U.S. state laws, ensuring continuous improvement and concrete, auditable controls.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in GRC, security compliance, or IT audit, including at least one B2B SaaS environment where you owned SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 end to end.
• Working knowledge of AI governance frameworks (ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF) and the EU AI Act, or a demonstrated ability to get deep in a new regulatory domain fast.
• A continuous-assurance operating model: you have run (or built toward) monitored controls and pipeline-collected evidence, and treat compliance platforms as plumbing rather than the program.
• Ability to read code and infrastructure-as-code well enough to verify a control yourself.
• Experience running enterprise risk processes that leadership uses to make decisions.
• Clear, precise writing — you will produce policies and risk narratives read by lawyers.
• You use AI tools daily in your own work and have specific, grounded views on which GRC workflows AI can run today and which it cannot.

Responsibilities

• Own our SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and ISO/IEC 42001 certifications: recertification cycles, auditor relationships, and remediation, run off continuously collected evidence — and expand the audit boundary as new products, entities, and acquisitions come into scope.
• Own the AI-agent assurance roadmap: track the emerging agent-certification standards and get us certified for the agents we ship.
• Design and maintain a unified controls library mapped across frameworks so one control satisfies many obligations.
• Be the authoritative source behind the Customer Trust team: your certifications, control descriptions, and evidence feed the trust portal and response library they run.
• Operate the AI governance program: the AI system and agent inventory, risk classification, and alignment to NIST AI RMF.
• Track the AI regulatory landscape (EU AI Act provider and deployer obligations, US state AI laws, bar and professional-responsibility guidance for legal AI) and translate it into concrete controls with Legal.
• Own the enterprise risk register: risk assessments, treatment decisions with system owners, and risk reporting leadership actually uses.
• Own the policy lifecycle, and turn written policies into enforced checks with the AI GRC Engineer wherever a rule can be automated.
• Consume the supply-chain-risk program’s vendor assessments for compliance scope; vendor risk itself is owned by the Supply Chain Risk Lead.
• Own the BCDR program: business impact analysis, recovery objectives with Engineering, and regular tabletop exercises and recovery tests.

Skills

GRC

Security Compliance

IT Audit

B2B SaaS

AI governance familiarity

Tools

SOC 2 Type II

ISO 27001

ISO/IEC 42001

Job description

Legora is seeking a senior GRC/Security professional to own our assurance program end to end, including certifications, AI governance, and risk leadership. You’ll interface with auditors, regulators, and customer security teams, shaping controls that scale across products and acquisitions.

You’ll drive an evidence-driven program aligned with NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, and various U.S. state laws, ensuring continuous improvement and concrete, auditable controls.