Head of GRC

About The Role & Team

As a Senior Staff GRC Engineer, you will report to the CISO and operate as our Governance, Risk & Compliance leader. You will be hands-on and highly influential, executing on GRC goals while enabling GTM and supporting deals. You’ll design and drive governance efforts across the company and mature risk management end-to-end. By balancing strategic governance with time-sensitive deal work, you will elevate Amplitude’s security posture and sales velocity simultaneously. Your engineering skills and experience will enable you to automate and codify GRC solutions in a highly technical environment. As our program scales, you’ll help cultivate a culture of security by advocating and mentoring across the company.

As a Senior Staff GRC Engineer, you will:

• Design and build lean, effective governance, both for traditional security and compliance needs as well as a rapidly evolving landscape of AI risks


• Lead enterprise risk management, evolving our approach, elevating the right risks to the right levels of management, and stewarding the company to continually drive risk down


• Own customer deal support end-to-end, triaging requests, coordinating SMEs, aligning content with Security and Legal, satisfying questionnaires and audits, and continuously shortening our cycle time


• Drive third-party risk management, perform due diligence, collaborate with vendors to perform assessments, provide risk-based recommendations and approvals


• Support our certification and attestation goals, aligning on control design and implementation with Engineering, Security, IT, Legal and HR


• Apply engineering skills and experience to automate GRC controls and risk telemetry, continually reduce manual labor, increase governance efficacy, and achieve continuous compliance


• Maintain customer-facing trust collateral and the Trust Center

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• 10+ years of progressively responsible work experience in GRC, Security, IT, Trust or related roles, accumulating expert-level knowledge of Governance, Risk and Compliance, preferably in a B2B context


• Experience operating as part of a Trust business function or Information Security program, integrating work with Security and collaborating closely with Engineering in a highly technical context


• Modern and technical understanding of best practices for implementing GRC solutions, especially in the context of modern, cloud-based SaaS platform and a fast-based, customer-centric and product-driven environment


• Superb verbal and written communication skills


• Proven ability to influence across dotted lines and at the executive level


• Professional certifications such as CISA, CISM, CRISC, or relevant security credentials

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.

Some of our benefit programs include:

• Excellent ​M​edical, ​D​ental and ​V​ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee ​M​edical, ​D​ental,​ ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans


• Flexible time off, ​p​aid holidays, and more


• Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much more


• Excellent Parental benefits including​:​ 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support


• Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)


• Employee Stock Purchase Program​ (ESPP)​

Other fun facts about Amplitude:

• We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.


• Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 19 quarters in a row on G2.


• We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.


• We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.


• We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.


• We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.


• We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.


• Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.

Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $229,000 - $344,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in New York City, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range: $255,000 - $384,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $255,000 - $384,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $229,000 - $344,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $229,000 - $344,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.