Federal Compliance Manager

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Requirements:

• 7+ years in compliance, risk, and security, with deep experience in FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, or federal contracting
• Proven success achieving FedRAMP certification and ongoing Continuous Monitoring —especially in a fast-paced startup
• Clear communicator who can influence without authority and move work forward through ambiguity
• Familiarity with modern SaaS environments (cloud-native, remote-first, fast-paced) and the compliance challenges they bring
• Past experience standing up a compliance function from scratch

Responsibilities:

• Drive our FedRAMP Moderate ATO, coordinating across Security, Compliance, Product, Engineering, Legal Support, and external partners (3PAO, agency sponsors)
• FedRAMP ConMon and related activities for ATO maintenance
• Build and maintain FedRAMP-aligned documentation (SSP, policies, procedures, etc.), adapting enterprise-grade expectations to a fast-moving startup
• Own the Compliance project plan—milestones, risks, dependencies, and communication—while course-correcting as needed
• Translate control language into practical implementation guidance for engineering, operations, and other non-technical teams
• Help define and operationalize controls efficiencies across NIST 800-53, FISMA, ISO 27001, SOC 2 and other compliance frameworks
• Support customer-facing security conversations, audits, and questionnaires related to our federal offering
• Collaborate closely with Security leadership and Engineering Program Management to scale our internal compliance capability for federal opportunities