Director, Security Compliance

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier-physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences.

The Director, Security Compliance will lead CLEAR’s security certification portfolio, helping earn the trust of travelers, enterprise customers, and government partners. You’ll move compliance from document-heavy processes to evidence-backed systems across CLEAR’s commercial and federal products and the Enterprise.

What you'll do:

• Lead CLEAR’s certification and assurance portfolio, including FedRAMP Rev. 5, TSA programs, SOC 2, PCI, SOX IT controls, and customer frameworks; build trusted relationships with auditors, assessors, and customers.
• Translate requirements into reusable, testable controls, mapping each control across applicable frameworks and defining what it must achieve and what evidence demonstrates it.
• Partner with Engineering and other technical teams to embed evidence and control requirements into systems and platforms at design time; use sound judgment to assess evidence and resolve disagreements.
• Set the direction for CLEAR’s compliance platform and infrastructure, defining the capabilities and workflows needed by compliance, engineering, and other users.
• Keep external security claims accurate and evidence-backed; lead customer security responses and help the team use AI responsibly, with human review of claims and outputs.
• Work with the business and cross-functional partners to align where necessary when new regulations are required to enter new markets.

How you'll measure success:

• The compliance program not only satisfies audit requirements but ties into the maturity of CLEAR’s security program and risk management.
• Certification and assessment milestones are completed on schedule, with continuous readiness maintained across the portfolio.
• Control evidence is complete, current, reusable across frameworks, and available to support audits and assessments.
• Audit findings and control gaps are tracked through resolution within agreed timelines.
• Customer security questions and framework requests are answered accurately and within agreed service levels.

What you're great at:

• 10+ years of experience in security compliance, audit, or GRC, including team leadership.
• Direct FedRAMP experience and the credibility to work effectively with assessors and auditors.
• Working fluency in cloud environments and technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, APIs, and infrastructure as code; able to interpret a Terraform plan or Kubernetes policy and explain what it demonstrates to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Experience designing controls that auditors relied on and owning a modern GRC platform, modernizing a multi-framework program, or applying AI to compliance work.
• A record of leading change and communicating clearly with executives, engineers, customers, and cross-functional partners.

How You'll be Rewarded:

At CLEAR, we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our offices are bright and energetic with an open concept and plenty of conference rooms and casual co-working spaces. We also offer catered lunches every day and have fully stocked kitchens. Outside of the office, we invest in your well-being and learning & development with stipends and reimbursement programs. 

We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, a CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The base salary range for this role is $225,000 - $275,000, depending on levels of skills and experience.

The base salary range represents the low and high end of CLEAR’s salary range for this position. Salaries will vary depending on various factors which include, but are not limited to location, education, skills, experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of CLEAR’s total compensation package for employees and other rewards may include annual bonuses, commission, Restricted Stock Units. 

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

CLEAR provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or protected needs. Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include, but are not limited to, time off, extra breaks, making a change to the application process or work procedures, policy exceptions, providing documents in an alternative format, live captioning or using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity.