Strategic Controls Program Manager — Compliance & Risk

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Program Manager for Controls Management to own the end-to-end control lifecycle across privacy, security, and integrity domains. You will translate regulatory obligations into defensible controls, partner with product, engineering, and data teams, and drive governance, assurance, and audit readiness.

With 6+ years in compliance/risk, you will lead cross-functional workstreams, shape control frameworks, and advance automated and AI-enabled workflows to reduce duplication and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in compliance, risk management, audit, privacy, information security, trust and safety, program management, or related field.
• Experience designing, implementing, or evaluating control frameworks in a complex, cross-functional environment.
• Experience translating regulatory or policy requirements into operational processes or controls.
• Experience communicating risk findings and recommendations in writing to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams by prioritizing based on impact, urgency, and stakeholder needs.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end control lifecycle for the controls in scope (intake, design, documentation, activation, change management).
• Translate regulatory obligations, legal interpretations, and risk findings into control objectives and evidence expectations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to design and document defensible, testable controls.
• Map controls to obligations and risks, maintaining traceability as regulations and products evolve.
• Govern changes to controls, assessing impact on coverage and assurance.
• Maintain the control inventory in compliance systems with metadata, ownership, and linkages.
• Drive control rationalization to reduce duplication and raise standards across domains.
• Support onboarding of new compliance domains into the shared lifecycle.
• Prepare controls and owners for assurance and audit with ready narratives and evidence.
• Maintain understanding of evolving regulatory landscape and translate changes into framework updates.
• Define and monitor metrics showing control health, throughput, and remediation progress.
• Identify deviations and drive corrective actions.
• Develop communication plans to keep stakeholders aligned on status and risks.
• Produce analyses and presentations for senior leadership.
• Identify gaps in processes/tools and drive scalable improvements, including automation and AI-enabled workflows.
• Represent Controls Management in cross-organizational initiatives with design expertise.

Skills

Compliance program management

Risk assessment

Regulatory requirements

Control design

Audit readiness

Job description

Meta is seeking a Program Manager for Controls Management to own the end-to-end control lifecycle across privacy, security, and integrity domains. You will translate regulatory obligations into defensible controls, partner with product, engineering, and data teams, and drive governance, assurance, and audit readiness.

With 6+ years in compliance/risk, you will lead cross-functional workstreams, shape control frameworks, and advance automated and AI-enabled workflows to reduce duplication and