Sierra
Technology
VendorSecurityManager
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“Vendor Security Manager at Sierra. Skills: Vendor security program, AI vendor risk, Third-party security. Build vendor security program. Scale vendor security program”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting; Risk analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years vendor security, Hands-on technical depth, Form credible point of view with incomplete information
Nice to Have
Experience with AI governance frameworks
What You'll Do.
Build vendor security program
Scale vendor security program
Conduct technical assessments
Develop AI vendor risk frameworks
Drive security decisions
Manage vendor security risk
Document risk acceptance
Document mitigation plans
Improve program methodology
Improve program tooling
Manage third-party landscape
Develop assessment frameworks
Address AI vendor risks
Develop model provider oversight
Understand data handling
Understand inference security
Understand model update practices
Map supply chain surface
Monitor supply chain surface
Think in blast radius
Build detection logic
Build automated alerting
Automate evidence collection
Automate control validation
Build tooling integrations
Analyze vendor documentation
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Interface between Security and teams; Partner with Platform Engineering; Partner with Security Engineering; Partner with Legal; Partner with Operations; Partner with Finance
Communication Scope
Risk conversations; Reporting
Process & Methodology
Program ownership
Full Job Description
ABOUT US - At Sierra, we’re creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Singapore, Japan, and Sydney. - We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do. - Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace. THE ROLE We're looking for a Vendor Security Manager to join Sierra's Security team. The security of our Conversational AI Platform depends on the security of everything connected to it, the vendors, model providers, infrastructure partners, and supply chain dependencies that enable how Sierra operates and scales. You'll build and scale Sierra's vendor security program from the ground up, conducting deep technical assessments, developing frameworks purpose-built for AI vendor risk, and driving security decisions across all of Sierra's third-party security relationships. This is a hands-on role that requires both technical depth and strong judgment. You’ll help Sierra make informed trade-offs between speed, scale, and security in a business that moves fast and operates in regulated industries. We value peop
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