Director, Security Compliance
About The Position
The Director, Security Compliance will lead CLEAR’s security certification portfolio and help earn the trust of travelers, enterprise customers, and government partners. The role will move compliance from document-heavy processes to evidence-backed systems across CLEAR’s commercial and federal products and the Enterprise. The Director will lead certification and assurance programs, translate requirements into reusable and testable controls, partner with technical teams to embed evidence and control requirements into systems, and set direction for CLEAR’s compliance platform and infrastructure. The role will also ensure external security claims are accurate and evidence-backed, lead customer security responses, support responsible use of AI in compliance work, and coordinate with business and cross-functional partners on regulations needed to enter new markets. Success includes completing certification milestones on schedule, maintaining continuous readiness, keeping control evidence complete and reusable, resolving audit findings and control gaps within agreed timelines, and responding accurately to customer security questions within service levels.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in security compliance, audit, or GRC, including team leadership.
- Direct FedRAMP experience and credibility working effectively with assessors and auditors.
- Working fluency in cloud environments and technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, APIs, and infrastructure as code.
- Ability to interpret a Terraform plan or Kubernetes policy and explain what it demonstrates to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- A record of leading change and communicating clearly with executives, engineers, customers, and cross-functional partners.
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing controls that auditors relied on.
- Experience owning a modern GRC platform, modernizing a multi-framework program, or applying AI to compliance work.
Responsibilities
- Lead CLEAR’s certification and assurance portfolio, including FedRAMP Rev. 5, TSA programs, SOC 2, PCI, SOX IT controls, and customer frameworks.
- Build trusted relationships with auditors, assessors, and customers.
- Translate requirements into reusable, testable controls; map controls across applicable frameworks and define their intended outcomes and supporting evidence.
- Partner with Engineering and other technical teams to embed evidence and control requirements into systems and platforms at design time.
- Assess evidence and resolve disagreements using sound judgment.
- Set the direction for CLEAR’s compliance platform and infrastructure, including capabilities and workflows for compliance, engineering, and other users.
- Keep external security claims accurate and evidence-backed.
- Lead customer security responses and help the team use AI responsibly, with human review of claims and outputs.
- Work with the business and cross-functional partners to align on regulations needed to enter new markets.
- Maintain continuous readiness across the certification and assessment portfolio, track audit findings and control gaps through resolution, and support timely customer responses.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare plans.
- Family-building benefits, including fertility and adoption/surrogacy support.
- Flexible time off.
- Annual wellness stipend.
- Free OneMedical memberships for employees and dependents.
- CLEAR Plus membership.
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Annual bonuses, commission, and Restricted Stock Units may be included as other rewards.
- Stipends and reimbursement programs for well-being and learning and development.
- Catered lunches every day and fully stocked kitchens.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
