Sierra

Technology

VendorSecurityManager

$165–225k ~AI est. San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Manager candidates.

The Brief

“Vendor Security Manager at Sierra. Skills: Vendor security, Risk management, AI vendor risk. Build vendor security program. Scale vendor security program”

What You'll Achieve.

Meet audit expectations; Meet regulatory expectations

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause 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 vendor security methodology

Improve vendor security tooling

Improve vendor risk tiering

Improve vendor monitoring

Improve vendor response

Manage third-party landscape

Tailor vendor oversight

Review vendor architectures

Review IAM configurations

Review vulnerability assessments

Develop AI vendor assessment frameworks

Develop model provider oversight program

Map supply chain surface

Monitor supply chain surface

Understand data flows

Understand network adjacency

Understand privilege scope

Understand lateral movement paths

Build detection logic

Build automated alerting

Automate evidence collection

Automate control validation

Build tooling integrations

Analyze vendor documentation

Develop leadership dashboards

Develop leadership reporting

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

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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