Senior Security Engineer - GRC

ClassPass
United States
On-site

Who this role is best for

Geared toward technical architects comfortable with compliance automation and AI integration, this role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and long-term control environment design across a multi-brand footprint in the United States.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in unifying compliance frameworks and designing control architectures across multiple standards
    — “designing the architecture that lets the team work across multiple compliance frameworks without duplicating effort at every audit”
  • Individuals who have built or operated agentic AI workflows in production environments
    — “Experience building or operating agentic AI workflows (LLM-based pipelines, multi-agent systems, RAG architectures) in a production or near-production context”
  • Professionals adept at translating compliance requirements into actionable engineering guidance
    — “Ability to translate technical control design into clear implementation guidance for engineering and product teams”

Things to consider

  • The role demands active participation in external audits and ongoing compliance monitoring
    — “Experience supporting external audits or assessments as a primary technical”
  • Candidates must be prepared to manage evolving regulatory landscapes and newly acquired brands
    — “Managing the full lifecycle of controls, evidence requirements, and implementation as new standards are adopted”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience with control framework rationalization and reuse across standards
    — “Identify rationalization opportunities across frameworks, so adding a new standard to the portfolio means incremental work”
  • Demonstrate your hands-on work with compliance automation tools like Optro or Vanta
    — “Proficiency with compliance automation tooling (Optro, Drata, Vanta, Hyperproof, Anecdotes, or similar)”
  • Showcase your ability to design control mappings using OSCAL or similar languages
    — “Design and build framework crosswalks and control mappings across PCI DSS, SOC 1 Type II, ISO 27001, HITRUST, and NIST CSF/800-53, using languages such as OSCAL”
  • Emphasize your work with AI-powered GRC tooling and multi-agent systems
    — “Design, build and maintain AI-powered GRC tooling, multi-agent pipelines for risk quantification, evidence automation”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • design and build framework crosswalks and control mappings
  • own the Master Control List end-to-end
  • manage the full lifecycle of controls
  • drive evidence automation in GRC tooling
Typical background
security engineeringrisk managementcompliance

Skills & requirements

Required

GovernanceRisk ManagementComplianceControl ArchitecturePCI DSSSOC 1 Type IIISO 27001HitrustNIST Csf/800-53OscalControl MappingsEvidence RequirementsGRC ToolingAutomation

Preferred

Project ManagementTeam Leadership

Stack & domain

OscalPCI DSSSOC 1 Type IIISO 27001HitrustNIST Csf/800-53LeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingSecurityComplianceRisk Management

About the role

Original posting from ClassPass

At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections.

ClassPass offers thousands of fitness and wellness experiences worldwide, helping people lead active, balanced lifestyles. Our platform makes discovering and enjoying activities simple, personalized, and joyful—whether it's fitness classes, self-care sessions, a healthy lunch, or a new adventure. Join us in shaping healthier, more vibrant communities around the globe.

Who we are

The GRC team at Playlist owns governance, risk, third-party risk, and compliance across a portfolio that spans Mindbody, ClassPass, Booker, Kite, and EGYM, with more brands coming as the company grows. We operate without a playbook, building programs, frameworks, and control architecture in an environment that's complex, not just big. The team works closely with Engineering, Legal, Finance, and product teams to make compliance real rather than ceremonial. If you want to do meaningful work on hard problems with people who take both rigor and pragmatism seriously, we'd love to meet you.

Your role

As a Senior GRC Engineer, you'll own the technical spine of how Playlist manages its control environment. That means designing the architecture that lets the team work across multiple compliance frameworks without duplicating effort at every audit, and making sure control design, evidence requirements, and implementation keep pace with regulatory change and business growth.

You'll be expected to act as a technical leader who can help mature our governance, risk, compliance, in a way that is durable, measurable, and embedded into how our systems operate day to day. Your time will center on two related workstreams. The first is building and maintaining Playlist's Master Control List, a live control architecture mapped across PCI DSS, SOC 1 Type II, ISO 27001, HITRUST, and NIST CSF/800-53 that teams can use and navigate. The second is managing the full lifecycle of controls and evidence requirements as new standards are adopted, updated, or expanded to cover newly acquired brands.

You will

Design and build framework crosswalks and control mappings across PCI DSS, SOC 1 Type II, ISO 27001, HITRUST, and NIST CSF/800-53, using languages such as OSCAL as the translation layer to preserve framework-specific requirements while reducing duplicate audit burden

Own the Master Control List end-to-end, including control nomenclature, relational database architecture, evidence linkages, and the operational model for ongoing maintenance across Playlist's multi-brand footprint

Manage the full lifecycle of controls, evidence requirements, and implementation as new standards are adopted, requirements change, or acquired entities are brought into scope

Drive evidence automation in GRC tooling, building collection workflows that scale without turning every audit season into a manual sprint

Partner with Security Engineering, Legal, and Finance to validate that control design reflects how the business operates, translating compliance requirements into implementation guidance that engineering teams can act on

Design, build and maintain AI-powered GRC tooling, multi-agent pipelines for risk quantification, evidence automation, vendor risk assessment, and compliance monitoring using cloud native tools and APIs, so the team's analytical and operational capacity scales without scaling headcount

Identify rationalization opportunities across frameworks, so adding a new standard to the portfolio means incremental work, not starting from scratch

About the right team member

You think in systems, not checklists. You're the person who looks at five overlapping compliance frameworks and immediately starts sketching how they relate to each other, where the evidence reuse opportunities are, and what a sustainable architecture looks like long-term. You also see AI as a genuine lever, not a novelty, and you know how to wire agentic workflows into compliance programs in ways that hold up under audit scrutiny. You're equally comfortable whiteboarding a control schema, shipping a pipeline, and sitting with an auditor challenging a scope interpretation. You don't wait for someone to hand you the answer; you dig in, form a view, and bring it to leadership with the reasoning laid out. You're precise without being rigid, and you understand that compliance programs have to serve the business, not the other way around.

You'll thrive in this role with experience in:

Must Have:

6+ years of experience in security engineering, GRC, or compliance engineering, with direct hands-on work across multiple regulatory frameworks

Deep working knowledge of PCI DSS, SOC 1 or SOC 2, HITRUST, and at least one of ISO 27001 or NIST CSF/800-53

Experience designing or maintaining control frameworks, crosswalks, or unified control architectures across multiple compliance standards

Hands-on experience managing evidence requirements and control implementation, not just documentation

Proficiency with compliance automation tooling (Optro, Drata, Vanta, Hyperproof, Anecdotes, or similar)

Ability to translate technical control design into clear implementation guidance for engineering and product teams

Experience building or operating agentic AI workflows (LLM-based pipelines, multi-agent systems, RAG architectures) in a production or near-production context

Nice to Have:

Hands-on experience with AWS services (Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, S3, Aurora/RDS) for building and maintaining compliance automation infrastructure

Experience supporting external audits or assessments as a primary technical contact

Exposure to multi-brand or post-acquisition control harmonization

Certifications such as CISA, CISSP, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, CCSFP (HITRUST), or PCI ISA

Experience in a SaaS or consumer marketplace environment

It is the Company's intent to pay all Team Members competitive wages and salaries that are motivational, fair and equitable. The goal of Company's compensation program is to be transparent, attract potential employees, meet the needs of all current employees, and encourage Team Members to stay with our organization. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location.

The base salary range for this position in the United States is $150,000 to $170,000. The total compensation package for this position may also include a performance bonus, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans

Have we piqued your curiosity?

Sound like the role for you? We’d love to hear from you! Even if you’re not 100% sure about potential fit, we still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for the right person, not the perfect series of checkboxes.

The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We highly value diversity at our company and encourage people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other protected characteristics.

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Source: ClassPass careers

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