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Governance, risk, and compliance jobs in San Francisco Bay Area: frontier AI, technology platforms, and fintech.

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Open GRC jobs in San Francisco Bay Area (69)

GRC Program Manager, Audit & Controls

OpenAI
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Audit Sep 3, 2026

Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy

Anthropic
On-site · San Francisco, CA, NY Seattle · Full-time
$405k Featured Privacy Aug 31, 2026

Audit, Technology

Column
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
$150k to $200k Featured Audit CISA CISM CRISC Aug 31, 2026

Finance & Operations Audit Leader

OpenAI
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Audit Aug 31, 2026

Consumer Device Safety & Risk Operations Specialist, User Safety & Risk Operations

OpenAI
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Risk Aug 31, 2026

Accounting, Revenue Internal Controls

Anthropic
On-site · San Francisco, CA, WA · Full-time
$300k Featured Governance Aug 31, 2026

Technology Risk Audit Manager

Discord
On-site · San Francisco Bay Area · Full-time
$180k to $203k Featured Audit CISA CISSP Aug 30, 2026

Senior Privacy Counsel

Sierra
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Featured Privacy CIPP Aug 30, 2026

Risk Partnerships Manager, Stablecoin

Stripe
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Risk Aug 30, 2026

Regulatory Counsel, AI Regulation, US

Anthropic
On-site · San Francisco, CA, NY · Full-time
$335k Featured AI Governance Aug 30, 2026

Program Manager, Compliance

Scale AI
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Featured Compliance Clearance required CCEP Aug 30, 2026

Head of Risk

Modern Treasury
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Risk Aug 30, 2026

Product Policy Manager, Product Risk

Anthropic
Remote · Friendly Travel-Required San Francisco, CA, WA New York City · Remote · Full-time
$245k Featured Risk Aug 30, 2026

Product Marketing Manager, IT Admin and Governance

OpenAI
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Governance Aug 30, 2026

Senior Counsel, AI & Product Compliance

OpenAI
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured AI Governance Aug 30, 2026

Senior Operations Analyst, User Safety & Risk Operations

OpenAI
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Risk Aug 30, 2026

Federal Compliance Manager

Figma
On-site · San Francisco, CA, NY • · Full-time
$153k Featured Compliance Aug 30, 2026

Tax Director, Provision & Compliance

Anthropic
Remote · Friendly Travel Required San Francisco, CA · Remote · Full-time
$230k Featured Compliance Aug 30, 2026

Senior Compliance Risk Manager - Prudential

Mercury
Remote · San Francisco, CA, New York · Remote · Full-time
Featured Compliance Aug 30, 2026

Digital Assets Compliance

Column
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
$130k to $170k Featured Compliance Aug 22, 2026

Senior IT Internal Auditor

Okta
On-site · San Francisco, California · Full-time
$117k Featured Audit CISA CISM CISSP Aug 22, 2026

Governance, Risk & Compliance Analyst

Perplexity
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Compliance Aug 22, 2026

Threat Intel Manager, Model Exploitation & Fraud

Anthropic
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
$375k Featured Governance Top Secret Aug 22, 2026

IT Governance Analyst

TabaPay
On-site · Palo Alto, CA · Full-time
Featured Governance Compliance Aug 20, 2026

Senior Research Lead, AI Security Portfolio

RAND Corporation
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
$167k to $261k Featured AI Governance Cybersecurity Aug 19, 2026

Senior Strategist, AI Governance Field Coordination

Future Matters
On-site · San Francisco OR Washington DC, California · Full-time
$133k to $163k Featured AI Governance Aug 18, 2026

Senior Manager - Data & AI Governance

Mercury
Remote · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Featured AI Governance Aug 18, 2026

Director, Compliance & AI Governance

AKASA
On-site · South San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Featured Governance Aug 17, 2026

Senior Manager, Data & AI Governance

Mercury
Remote · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
$203k to $282k Featured AI Governance Aug 14, 2026

AI Engineer, Legal & Compliance

Gusto
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
$221k Featured AI Governance Aug 11, 2026

VP, Product Management - AI Governance

OneTrust
On-site · San Francisco, California · Full-time
$255k Featured AI Governance Aug 11, 2026

Security Engineer, GRC

Plaid
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Governance Aug 11, 2026

Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Data Governance & Privacy

SoFi
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Featured Data Governance Aug 11, 2026

Staff Software Engineer - Data Governance

Plaid
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Data Governance Aug 11, 2026

Staff+ Software Engineer, Financial Fraud

Anthropic
On-site · San Francisco, CA, NY Seattle · Full-time
$320k Featured Governance Aug 11, 2026

Sr Product Manager, Risk Platform

OKX
On-site · San Jose, California · Full-time
$223k to $268k Featured Risk Aug 11, 2026

Account Executive - Fraud

Plaid
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Governance Aug 11, 2026

Staff Software Engineer, Financial Crimes

Ripple
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
$212k Featured Governance Aug 11, 2026

Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering

OpenAI
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Privacy Aug 11, 2026

Research Engineer, Privacy

OpenAI
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Privacy Aug 11, 2026

Principal Product Marketing Manager, AI Governance

Databricks
On-site · San Francisco, California · Full-time
$194k Featured AI Governance Aug 11, 2026

Director of Compliance

Commure
On-site · Mountain View, CA · Full-time
Featured Compliance Aug 11, 2026

Cybersecurity & Technology Audit Leader

OpenAI
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Featured Audit Aug 10, 2026

Security Compliance Analyst, Privacy

LangChain
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Featured Privacy Aug 10, 2026

Governance, Risk & Compliance

Runway
On-site · San Francisco, CA, WA · Full-time
Featured Compliance Jul 27, 2026

Tech Governance - Security Compliance Engineer

OKX
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Featured Compliance Jul 27, 2026

Manager of Risk & Governance (AI Safety)

Reflection AI
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Featured AI Governance Jul 27, 2026

Compliance Manager, Marketing

Brex
On-site · San Francisco, California · Full-time
$159k to $198k Featured Compliance Jul 5, 2026

Counsel, Product & Regulatory - Payments & AML

Mercury
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Featured Financial Crime Jul 3, 2026

Device Safety & Risk Operations Specialist, User Safety & Risk Operations

OpenAI
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Risk Jun 28, 2026

Senior Workforce Governance Program Manager

Crusoe
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
$160k to $190k Featured Governance Jun 28, 2026

Staff Software Engineer - Fraud

Mercury
Remote · San Francisco, CA, New York · Remote · Full-time
Featured Governance Jun 22, 2026

Sr Data Scientist, Risk Strategy

OKX
On-site · San Jose, California · Full-time
$224k to $268k Featured Risk Jun 22, 2026

Senior Fraud Research Analyst

Plaid
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Governance Jun 22, 2026

Technical Lead Manager, Data Engineering, Trust & Safety

OpenAI
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Governance Jun 22, 2026

Agentic Risk Analyst

OpenAI
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Featured Risk Jun 20, 2026

Fraud Operations Specialist

Wealthfront
On-site · Palo Alto, CA · Full-time
$81k to $90k Featured Governance Jun 20, 2026

Security Controls Assurance Lead

Anthropic
On-site · San Francisco, CA, NY Washington · Full-time
$270k Featured Governance Jun 20, 2026

Strategic Operations Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations

OpenAI
On-site · San Francisco · Full-time
Featured Risk Jun 20, 2026

Head of Product, Assurance

Drata
On-site · Hybrid - San Francisco · Full-time
$208k to $281k Featured Governance Jun 20, 2026

Security GRC Manager: Customer Trust Enablement

Sierra
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Featured Governance CISA CISM CRISC Jun 13, 2026

Engineering Manager, GRC Platform

Anthropic
On-site · San Francisco, CA, NY Seattle · Full-time
$320k Featured Governance Jun 13, 2026

Staff+ Software Engineer, GRC Platform

Anthropic
On-site · San Francisco, CA, NY Seattle · Full-time
$320k Featured Governance Jun 13, 2026

Research Scientist, Frontier Risk Evaluations

Scale AI
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
Featured Risk Jun 13, 2026

Staff+ Security Engineer, Risk Engineering

Anthropic
On-site · San Francisco, CA, NY Seattle · Full-time
$320k Featured Risk Jun 13, 2026

Senior Software Engineer, Data Governance

Chime
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
$160k Featured Data Governance Jun 13, 2026

Principal Compliance Engineer

True Anomaly
On-site · Denver, CO, CA or SF Bay Area or Washington D.C. · Full-time
$185k to $270k Featured Compliance TS/SCI CISSP Jun 13, 2026

Senior Compliance Automation Engineer

True Anomaly
On-site · Denver, CO, CA or SF Bay area · Full-time
$140k to $195k Featured Compliance TS/SCI CISA CRISC CISSP Jun 13, 2026

Risk Operations

Column
On-site · San Francisco, CA · Full-time
$125k to $150k Featured Risk Jun 13, 2026

The San Francisco Bay Area GRC market

The San Francisco Bay Area is where AI governance is being invented. The concentration of frontier AI labs, platform companies, and venture-backed startups has created demand for responsible AI, model risk, AI compliance, privacy, and data governance roles that barely existed a few years ago. Layer in a large fintech and financial-services presence and the Bay Area becomes the leading market for the newest category of GRC work: governing the AI systems themselves.

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San Francisco Bay Area GRC at a glance

Key sectors: frontier AI, technology platforms, and fintech. On the board now: 69 local and 0 remote-eligible jobs.

Compliance Officer paystats as of Q2 2026

BLS put the 2024 median at $78,420. In 2026, market trackers show averages from roughly $99,000 to $120,000, with the top quartile above $160,000. Financial centers and senior governance roles sit at the top of that range.

Sources: BLS, 2024 median

San Francisco Bay Area GRC jobs: what the market looks like right now

A snapshot built from the 69 San Francisco Bay Area GRC roles currently on this page.

What these roles pay by level

Median advertised midpoint, by seniority band. Bars are to scale.
Median advertised salary midpoint by seniority level
Level Median midpoint Postings
Mid-level $300k 12
Senior / lead / manager $214k 18
How these figures were calculated, and sources

Primary source: our own board. Every figure above is the median midpoint of the salary ranges published in the live postings on this page. Nothing is estimated, modelled, or carried over from a previous month. It is recalculated each time the board refreshes.

What is included. Only postings that publish a salary range. Hourly, weekly and monthly rates are annualised (2,080 hours, 52 weeks, 12 months). Ranges below $20,000 a year are excluded as data-entry placeholders. A seniority band is shown only when at least five postings support it; director and executive / c-suite are present on this page but below that threshold, so no median is published for those bands.

What this is not. These are advertised ranges, not accepted offers. Advertised ranges tend to run wider than what is actually paid, and roles that do not publish a range are missing from the calculation entirely, which can bias the result upward.

For an independent benchmark, compare against the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for SOC 13-1041 — Compliance Officers, published annually at bls.gov/oes. BLS reports actual wages across all employers rather than advertised ranges, so its medians normally sit below job-board figures.

Where the work is

  • Work mode: 6 remote, 0 hybrid, 63 on-site or unstated.
  • Seniority mix: senior (35), mid (28), executive (3), director (3)
  • Employers hiring more than one: OpenAI (13), Anthropic (11), Mercury (5), Plaid (4), Column (3), OKX (3)

Skills these postings ask for

  • board and committee reporting
  • policy lifecycle ownership
  • risk appetite and tolerance setting
  • three-lines-of-defence operating models
  • ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF fluency

How to get a governance job — the full career guide for this field: entry routes, transferable backgrounds, certifications and salary by level.

Certifications that come up most

None of these are universally required, but they appear often enough in San Francisco Bay Area GRC postings to be worth knowing: CGEIT, CRISC, AIGP, CISA. The certification academy covers what each one actually tests and who it is for.

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