Security Risk and Compliance Analyst

Asana•San Francisco, CA

51d•$130,000 - $160,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At Asana, security is foundational to our mission of helping teams work together effortlessly. Our security team protects Asana's employees, users, and customers by proactively addressing threats, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and fostering a culture of security throughout our product and operations. We are a team of security engineers and risk and compliance practitioners who build innovative safeguards and collaborate across the organization to build and maintain trust at scale. As a Security Risk and Compliance Analyst at Asana, you'll play a critical and high-impact role in building and maintaining trust with Asana's global customers. You will be responsible for initiatives that continuously improve our vendor risk assessment and security risk management programs, ensuring we maintain a strong security posture and meet both compliance requirements and customer expectations. This is a highly cross-functional role where you'll partner closely with Legal, Privacy, Finance, R&D, and other key stakeholders. You'll help evolve our programs with a strategic, risk-based mindset-balancing operational excellence with agility as we grow and scale. This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in Governance Risk and Compliance, with a focus on risk assessments and security risk management.
Demonstrated understanding of security compliance frameworks and audits (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, NIST, HIPAA, FedRAMP, etc.).
Experience with enterprise SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure, modern software engineering practices and tools, databases, operating systems, secure network design, and public cloud models such as AWS
Experience performing third-party vendor security reviews and due diligence processes
Proven ability to drive operational process improvements and develop metrics for tracking success.
Excellent communicator and influencer, with the ability to translate complex security and compliance requirements to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.

Responsibilities

Vendor Risk Management: Own and operate Asana's vendor risk management program, including performing due diligence for new vendors, managing ongoing monitoring and reporting, and reviewing vendor contracts for security and compliance requirements.
Security Risk Management: Support the execution of periodic assessments across the organization to identify, evaluate, and track risks-driving mitigation and treatment efforts with business and technical owners.
Risk Register Maintenance: Assist in maintaining the central security risk register to promote and drive accountability across the organization.
FedRAMP Compliance: Support FedRAMP continuous monitoring activities to ensure ongoing compliance with FedRAMP moderate requirements.
Compliance Audit Support: Partner with internal teams to support external compliance audits such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, providing evidence and program documentation as needed.
Policy Management: Help to draft, update, and maintain security policies, standards, and procedures that align with evolving business needs and industry best practices.