[Hiring] Director, Security Compliance and Trust @Motive

Role Description

As Director, Security Compliance and Trust, you will build and lead the function that earns and sustains customer, regulator, and partner confidence in Motive. Reporting to the CISO, you will own governance, risk and compliance; audit and certification across ISO 27001/27701, SOC 1 and SOC 2, PCI DSS and the path to FedRAMP; privacy and data protection; customer trust; security policy; training and human risk; and AI governance.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will lead a small, senior, globally distributed team and you will also:

• Write policy, design controls, sit in audit fieldwork, and answer the hardest customer questions yourself.
• Build AI-first functions with automation designed into the operating model from day one.
• Facilitate global expansion into Canada, the EU, Mexico, and South America.

What You’ll Do

• Own the compliance, privacy and trust function end-to-end.
• Build a single integrated control framework across multiple standards.
• Manage the annual audit calendar and auditor relationships.
• Oversee privacy compliance operations, treating driver data as sensitive.
• Ensure regulatory readiness for new markets.
• Be the face of Motive's security and privacy posture to customers.
• Architect the AI-first operating model for the function.
• Own the security policy and standards library.
• Establish Motive's AI governance program.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security compliance, GRC, privacy, audit or risk management.
• 5+ years in leadership roles managing both people managers and senior individual contributors.
• Demonstrably hands-on experience in writing policies and designing controls.
• Proven ownership of multi-framework compliance programs in a cloud-native SaaS environment.
• Deep operational privacy experience across GDPR and CCPA/CPRA.
• Experience standing up compliance and privacy in new international markets.
• Experience with FedRAMP and leading organizations through authorization.
• Concrete use of AI in compliance work.
• Demonstrated ownership of customer-facing trust functions.
• Working fluency in AI governance frameworks.
• Experience supporting IPO readiness and handling sensitive personal data.

Benefits

• Health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits.
• Paid time off and sick time off.
• Short term and long term disability coverage.
• Life insurance.
• 401k contribution (subject to eligibility requirements).

Pay Transparency

Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For this role, the compensation range is:

• United States: $225,000 — $305,000 USD