Vice President, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)

Versant Media; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 210,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant Media, LLC seeks a senior Vice President of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) to shape and mature the Cyber organization. You will drive risk evaluation, control frameworks, and policy management, reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer with a focus on strategic growth.

You will lead a team across governance, risk, and compliance, coordinate with business leaders, and ensure risk ownership and remediation across Versant’s brands and platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in leadership across cyber security disciplines including audit, governance, risk and compliance.
• Experience leading external audits and regulatory reviews across complex business workflows.
• Developing governance policies, compliance programs, security training, and board reporting.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic direction for the GRC organization aligned with Cyber partner teams.
• Lead risk management lifecycle and policy management across the enterprise.
• Oversee security risk assessments for technology implementations and business units.
• Direct outsourced services and staff for efficient operation and delivery.
• Drive cross-business engagement and prioritize security requests across GRC.
• Engage executives and stakeholders to communicate risk and mitigation plans.
• Collaborate on transforming the GRC function and sustaining maturity.

Skills

Leadership

Cyber security

Risk management

Audit & regulatory

Policy & governance

Communication

Executive briefing

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in IT

Master’s Degree in IT

Tools

COSO

ISO 31000

SOX

Job description

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description

The Vice President, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) will be a key senior leader within the new Versant Cyber organization and will make an impact by leveraging their technical experience with strong business acumen to build and expand on core capabilities while modernizing the team’s approach to risk. This individual reports directly to the Chief Information Security Officer and will set the strategic direction of the organization’s security evaluation program, control frameworks, and risk management processes while ensuring their effective operation.

Responsibilities

Key areas of focus for the VP, GRC include managing the organization’s governance program, risk management and trending lifecycle, compliance and policy management, corporate audit liaison functions and leading cybersecurity assurance responsible for risk evaluation and remediation. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following activities:

• Setting the strategic direction of the GRC organization with alignment across key Cyber partner organizations and the overall Cyber strategy.
• Transforming the maturity of existing functions including ownership of the risk management lifecycle and operational processes.
• Directing cross business engagement, interactions, intake of security requests and prioritization across GRC services.
• Directing multiple outsourced services and staff to support operational efficiencies.
• Evaluating security risk of technology implementations across all brands and business units and establishing appropriate accountability within business leadership for accepted risk.
• Crossing business lines, forging key stakeholder relationships, and driving an inclusive cyber defense mission applicable to Versant and its business areas.
• Maintaining an effective feedback loop with business partners – seeking and integrating business area feedback into daily operations and strategic growth.
• Influencing the Versant Cyber Organization, executing its strategic and tactical mission, and being a leader of its transformation, maturity, and sustainability.
• Managing, developing, and supporting staff across a wide range of experience levels and maintaining a high bar for effectiveness and inclusion on the team.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years working in a leadership position across cyber security disciplines to include but not limited to Cyber-focused security assurance, governance, risk, compliance, audit, and business facing assessment/risk/resolution lifecycle management.
• Hands on experience leading external audits and regulatory reviews involving multiple, complex business workflows.
• Prior experience creating and maintaining governance policies, compliance programs, security training, and board reporting formats.
• Prior experience developing internal testing and control frameworks to ensure operational efficiency and compliance.
• M&A experience driving security evaluations and providing comprehensive risk evaluations.
• Prior experience leading functions and staff defending large, complex global computing enterprises and understanding strategic and tactical requirements to transform and maintain key security functions.
• Expert knowledge of risk frameworks (e.g., COSO, ISO 31000), industry-specific regulations (e.g., SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA), risk assessment, and mitigation strategies.
• Knowledge of the cyber threat landscape including different types of adversaries, campaigns, and the motivations that drive them and the ability to translate this to defending Versant.
• Strong and proven communication (both verbal and written) and customer engagement skills with experience briefing corporate executives and professionals.
• Strong leadership skills, social and business acumen, and proven results working with leaders across organizational and business lines to solve complex problems.
• Experience providing direct support and input to business executives and taking a lead role in driving the strategic direction of the organization’s mission.

Desired Characteristics

• Previous experience working in multiple large complex environments and specifically within the Governance, Risk, and Compliance functions.
• Previous experience leading Governance, Risk, and Compliance functions in the media, entertainment, and/or advanced technology industries.
• Previous experience building, maintaining, or transforming a risk management program.
• Bachelor’s Degree in an IT related field and/or equivalent work experience
• Master’s Degree in an IT related field

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [e-mail].

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.