{"id":3843686,"url":"https://alion.io/job/mixpanel-grc-specialist","title":"GRC Specialist","company":{"id":1658,"name":"Mixpanel","domain":"mixpanel.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/mixpanel","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Security","role_family":"Security","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":116000,"max":140000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":140000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":1,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"ISO 27001","optional":false},{"name":"SOC 2","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":true},{"name":"Zapier","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-05T21:37:51Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-05","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T03:31:39Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"About Mixpanel\nMixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at mixpanel.com.\nAbout the Role\nSecurity at Mixpanel is not a \"check-the-box\" exercise. Our growing team is dedicated to understanding and managing security risks while enabling our engineering and product design partners to continue making world-class software.\nMixpanel's Information Security & Risk Management (ISRM) team is hiring a GRC Specialist to own the day-to-day operations of our GRC function. You'll be the first line of response for customer security requests and third-party risk work, keeping our pipeline moving so senior analysts can focus on risk judgment. This is a growth role with a defined path to GRC Analyst.\nResponsibilities\nCustomer security questionnaires: Partner with teams across the company to complete customer security questionnaires, and keep stakeholders informed of progress.\nThird-party risk management: Support our third-party risk management program by running vendor intake, gathering and verifying security documentation, and tracking each vendor's status as it moves through review, remediation, and renewal.\nRequest management: Serve as the first point of contact for incoming GRC requests, triaging them and escalating items that need deeper review.\nCompliance operations: Follow up with control owners, vendors, and internal teams on open remediation and compliance items until they're closed, and triage alerts from our compliance monitoring platform.\nContent accuracy: Keep the information we share with customers current by flagging outdated or inconsistent content and driving the corrections.\nAutomation and improvement: Use AI tools to streamline repetitive GRC workflows, proactively identify improvement opportunities, and document your work so the team can reuse it.\nWe're Looking For Someone With\n1-2 years of experience in GRC, security compliance, vendor risk, or a related role\nHands-on experience using AI tools (e.g. Claude Code, Claude Cowork) to automate repetitive GRC workflows \nSelf-directed, resourceful, and comfortable with ambiguity, with the ability to make progress on incomplete requests with little direction, find information (documentation, tooling, internal teams)ask the right follow-up questions, and know when to escalate.\nSound judgment and initiative, including using autonomy to make decisions within your scope, spotting areas for improvement, proposing solutions, and running with them while escalating larger changes.\nUnderstanding of risk management processes, including how risks are identified, assessed, and tracked, and how they apply across the third-party lifecycle (due diligence, risk assessment, remediation tracking, and ongoing monitoring)\nBaseline understanding of security systems and processes (e.g., access management, logging, encryption, vulnerability management) and of audit processes and frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001, including how evidence and control testing work\nAbility to understand what a customer is asking in a security request and respond accurately, including interpreting intent behind loosely worded or unfamiliar questions\nAbility to translate audit and compliance requirements into clear, actionable asks for engineering teams\nMotivation to learn and grow with curiosity about security and compliance, and a desire to build a career in the GRC space.\nComfort with scrutiny, including explaining and defending your work with evidence when customers, vendors, engineers, or auditors challenge it, and treating review feedback as input for improvement\nStrong written communication and follow-through, with the ability to coordinate across teams, manage many concurrent items, and work independently across time zones\nNice to Have\nExperience with Vanta or another GRC platform\nExperience with Freshservice or another ticketing system\nExperience with third-party risk management tools\nScripting or no-code automation experience (e.g., Python, Zapier)\nCompTIA Security+, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, or similar entry-level certification\nWhat Success Looks Like\nFirst 3 months: You make independent decisions on routine requests, understand our vendor intake and questionnaire processes end-to-end, and know when to escalate.\nBy 6 months: You own the vendor intake pipeline and coordinate questionnaire responses with minimal oversight, and customers and vendors in your time zone get faster responses. \nBy 12 months: You've automated at least one recurring workflow with AI tools, documented it for the team, and are ready to take on more, such as vendor risk reviews, as you grow toward GRC Analyst.\nGrowth Path\nThis role is the entry point of a defined GRC career path. As you build experience, you can grow into GRC Analyst, where you'll complete customer questionnaires and vendor risk reviews, review vendor renewals, support audits, and maintain customer-facing security information. From there, the path continues to Senior GRC Analyst.\nCompensation\nThe amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings here.\nOur salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information.\nMixpanel Compensation Range\n$116,000—$140,000 USD\nBenefits and Perks \n\nComprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care\nMental Wellness Benefit\nGenerous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays\nEnhanced Parental Leave\nVolunteer Time Off\nAdditional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break\n*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*\nCulture Values\nMake Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.\nInnovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.\nOne Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.\nCandor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.\nChampion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.\nPowerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.\nWhy choose Mixpanel?\nWe’re a leader in analytics with over 29,000 customers and $277M invested from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.\nMixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter-our people, our customers, our partners-out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. 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