Governance Consultant – GRC Practice

Artemis Connection•Seattle, WA

2d•Remote

About The Position

In this role, you will help clients strengthen and operationalize governance practices that enable clear decision-making, effective oversight, and risk-informed execution across an organization. You will assess current-state governance, design fit-for-purpose structures — decision rights, forums, and accountability — and then implement the routines, artifacts, and reporting cadences that make governance adoptable and durable. This is a client-facing role that requires comfort navigating ambiguity, facilitating across functions, and producing executive-ready outputs. You should be equally strong at designing the governance model and driving its implementation.

Requirements

Minimum 5+ years of experience in governance, risk, compliance, or a closely related field
Demonstrated ability to assess, design, and implement governance structures, decision rights, and accountability models in complex organizations
Strong facilitation skills and experience producing executive-ready deliverables, including slides, memos, and frameworks
Strong execution discipline: coordinating stakeholders, tracking actions, risks, and dependencies, and driving follow-through
Experience with governance and control frameworks such as COBIT, ISO 27001, or NIST CSF / 800-53

Nice To Haves

Minimum 2+ years of consulting or client-facing advisory experience
Relevant professional certification such as CGEIT, CRISC, CISM, or CISA
Familiarity with regulated or risk-sensitive environments including cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, or government contracting
Experience standing up governance programs in high-growth technology or SaaS environments

Responsibilities

Assess and Improve Current-State Governance
Evaluate decision-making pathways, forums and committees, escalation routes, roles and responsibilities, and how governance artifacts are used in practice. Identify gaps, overlaps, and friction points that slow execution or create risk.
Design Governance Structures, Decision Rights, and Accountability
Design or refresh fit-for-purpose governance models, including decision rights, accountability frameworks such as RACIs, escalation protocols, and role clarity across teams and leadership levels.
Build and Operationalize Governance Artifacts and Routines
Develop and implement the governance documentation and operating mechanisms that make governance real and repeatable, including charters, agendas, decision logs, action tracking, policy and standards structures, lifecycle and exception processes, and lightweight operating guidance.
Drive Adoption Through Implementation Planning and Enablement
Translate governance design into roadmaps and workplans, coordinate stakeholders, manage dependencies, and support change enablement through communications, training, and rollout support to drive adoption and sustained usage.
Establish Metrics and Reporting Cadences
Define governance KPIs and KRIs and reporting cadences. Stand up repeatable reporting that gives leadership visibility into adoption, decision speed and follow-through, open issues, and risk signals.