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Director, Security Governance Risk & Compliance

Relay
CompanyRelay
CategorySecurity
LocationVancouver
RemoteOn-site (inferred)
EmploymentNot stated
LevelDirector
SalaryNot stated by the employer
Posted8 Jul 2026
Last verified12 Aug 2026
SourceEmployer ATS (greenhouse)
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Description
Who we are: For over 25 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world’s most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations. Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It’s a place where you can genuinely make an impact – and be recognized for it. We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers. Your role: As Director, Governance Risk & Compliance, you are responsible for defining and leading Global Relay’s Governance, Risk & Compliance function. Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, you establish the frameworks, governance structures and operating model that enable consistent security decision-making, transparent risk management and trusted assurance across the organization. You provide strategic leadership for security governance, risk management, assurance, cybersecurity compliance, third-party risk management and security awareness programs. Working closely with executive leadership, business stakeholders and technology teams, you translate complex security and technology risks into business context, influence strategic priorities and ensure the organization maintains a strong and resilient security posture while meeting regulatory, contractual and organizational requirements. You ensure emerging technologies, including AI, are governed in a manner that aligns with organizational objectives, risk appetite and regulatory obligations. Your responsibilities: Define and maintain the enterprise security governance framework, including policies, standards, control frameworks and governance processes. Establish and evolve the security risk management methodology, ensuring risks are consistently identified, assessed, managed and reported. Lead security governance forums and risk committees, ensuring effective oversight, escalation and decision-making. Define and communicate the organization's security risk posture, emerging risks and strategic priorities to executive leadership. Establish and oversee the enterprise security assurance strategy, including control testing, continuous assurance and remediation validation activities. Oversee security audits, certifications and external assessments, including ISO 27001, SOC 2, FedRAMP, ISO 42001 and other applicable frameworks. Establish and oversee governance processes for emerging technologies, including AI, ensuring associated risks, regulatory requirements and control expectations are appropriately integrated into governance, risk management, assurance and compliance activities. Provide strategic oversight of third-party security risk management activities. Establish and oversee the enterprise security awareness and training program. Define security metrics, key risk indicators and reporting requirements to measure program effectiveness and support risk-informed decision-making. Partner with Legal, Privacy, Product, Engineering and Operations leaders to integrate security governance and risk management practices across the organization. Lead, develop and mentor Governance, Risk & Compliance leaders and analysts. Drive continuous improvement and maturity across governance, risk, assurance and security compliance capabilities. Act as a trusted advisor to ex