Compliance Analyst

Palantir
Washington +1 more
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for compliance professionals who navigate ambiguity and drive progress in technologically complex environments, particularly those with experience in SaaS security and international compliance frameworks.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in SaaS environments and major compliance frameworks like SOC 2 or ISO 27001
    — “Experience facilitating or being the subject a major compliance framework (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)”
  • Individuals who can translate technical and compliance language effectively for cross-functional teams
    — “Demonstrated communication skills to translate engineering language into compliance language and vice versa.”
  • Professionals who thrive in dynamic, mission-driven environments with evolving compliance needs
    — “Inherent comfort and embracement of continuous change and new challenges.”

Things to consider

  • In-office presence is encouraged, which may limit flexibility for remote-preference candidates.
    — “we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation.”
  • The role demands long-term project management and the ability to handle complex, long-tail objectives.
    — “Demonstrated ability to autonomously project manage and keep oneself on track with long-tail objectives.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in parsing key controls within complex technical and business processes.
    — “Experience with parsing key controls in structurally complex technical and business processes.”
  • Showcase your ability to develop and maintain documentation for compliance reporting.
    — “Technical writing skills to enable the maturation of internal documentation and externally facing reporting.”
  • Emphasize your proactive approach and self-reliance in managing compliance and risk frameworks.
    — “Self-reliance, proactivity, organization, mission-oriented ambition.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • performing security assessments
  • developing and maintaining understanding of control environment
  • articulating understanding to stakeholders
Typical background
information securitycompliance

Skills & requirements

Required

Security ComplianceRisk ManagementTechnical WritingCommunicationProject ManagementCloud InfrastructureEmerging Technologies

Preferred

AI ToolingEvidence AutomationDocumentation Management

Stack & domain

Security AssessmentsTechnical DocumentationOperational ConcernsRisk ManagementInternal Control StructuresAI ToolingEvidence AutomationDocumentation ManagementAgentic IntegrationTechnical WritingCompliance FrameworksSOC 2ISO 27001ISO 9001ENSTisaxIsmapIRAPTeam-focusedMission-orientedNavigate AmbiguityProactiveOrganisedSelf-reliantComfortable With ChangeCommunicationAutonomous Project ManagementSecurityCompliance

About the role

Original posting from Palantir via Lever

A World-Changing Company

Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

The Role

As a member of Palantir's Security Compliance team, you will develop a deep understanding of Palantir's control environment, infrastructure, and products. You will work with information security, business and product development experts, and external parties to navigate and manage commercial and international compliance frameworks (SOC/ISO 27001/17/18, ISO 9001) and geographically strategic compliance frameworks (ENS, TISAX, ISMAP, IRAP) in order to provide practical guidance on technical documentation, operational concerns, and sustainable processes that will allow us to continue to grow quickly & efficiently while also maintaining our current compliance obligations. You will additionally be a co-owner of our holistic internal risk management and internal control structures.

We are looking for a team-focused and mission-oriented compliance professional that can navigate ambiguity and uncertainty, with the ability and desire to achieve goals and drive progress in an environment where outcomes must be achieved through their own resourcefulness and initiative.

Core Responsibilities:

  • Assist in the performance of internal and external security assessments of Palantir products, infrastructure, and processes.
  • Have a interest and general aptitude emerging technologies : from leveraging AI tooling, harnessing the capabilities of evidence automation and documentation management, and a general aptitude for agentic integration within workflows.
  • Develop and maintain an understanding of Palantir’s control environment and articulate this understanding to various audiences, including internal and external stakeholders and auditors.
  • Technical writing skills to enable the maturation of internal documentation and externally facing reporting of Palantir’s security posture across an array of control domains.
  • Partner with thought leaders across the organization to identify and consult on key controls for risk mitigation and externally focused requirements.

What We Value:

  • Self-reliance, proactivity, organization, mission-oriented ambition. We will teach everything that is teachable but you will need to bring the right intangibles and attributes.
  • Inherent comfort and embracement of continuous change and new challenges.
  • Familiarity with basic architecture concepts of distributed cloud infrastructure
  • Demonstrated communication skills to translate engineering language into compliance language and vice versa.
  • Demonstrated ability to autonomously project manage and keep oneself on track with long-tail objectives.

What We Require:

  • 2+ years of experience protecting or auditing modern and technologically complex SaaS environments.
  • Experience facilitating or being the subject a major compliance framework (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
  • Experience with parsing key controls in structurally complex technical and business processes.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $90,000 - $150,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.

Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.

Benefits

  • Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
  • Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
  • Commuter benefits
  • Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
  • 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
  • 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
  • Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
  • Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
  • Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
  • Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
  • Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan

Life at Palantir

We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.

In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.

If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.

Please note that you will never be asked to submit a payment or share financial information to participate in our interview process. If you suspect that you've been contacted by a scammer, we recommend you cease all communication with the individual and consider reporting them to the relevant authorities, such as the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

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Source: Palantir careers (Lever)

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