Security Compliance Lead

About this role

About the team Plaid’s Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team enables the business by proactively managing information security risk and maintaining effective controls. We partner across the company to keep Plaid’s platform secure, resilient, and aligned with industry and regulatory expectations. Our assurance program builds trust with customers, consumers, and data partners. Core compliance is how we prove it.

We run the certifications, audits, and regulatory obligations that let banks, customers, and regulators rely on Plaid, and we keep them aligned with a product that keeps changing. About the role As Security Compliance Lead, you’ll be the single accountable owner of Plaid’s core security compliance program: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and their governance obligations. Banks, enterprise customers, and regulators rely on what you own when they decide to work with Plaid, and your work keeps those certifications and commitments reliable and on time as the business grows.

You will set the program’s structure and direction, with a roadmap and KPIs that turn compliance from a pass/fail event into a program leadership can steer. The control catalog you build will sit behind every audit, so one control and one piece of evidence can satisfy many obligations, from SOC 2 to FedRAMP. Your internal audits will find gaps before an external auditor, customer, or regulator does. You will make sure compliance shapes product decisions before launch instead of reacting to them.

As Plaid expands into new products, markets, and frameworks, you will build a program that keeps pace without adding headcount, using AI and automation. Responsibilities - Own the compliance program and governance calendar: Lead SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 27701 end to end. Run the annual and quarterly governance obligations (policy reviews, access and change-management reviews, security training, vendor reviews, and regulatory, bank, and partner assessments), each with an owner, a date, and evidence of completion.

- Build and own the control catalog: Design and maintain one control catalog mapped across every framework Plaid reports against, built to FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 depth, with clear control owners, quarterly owner certification, and testing. - Run internal audit and policy assurance: Build a risk-based internal audit plan that tests operating effectiveness and whether policies are followed, and own the policy lifecycle.