Description
Scale seeks a Head of Global Assurance to lead a high-performing team of technical experts advancing Scale’s assurance programs across its Global Public Sector and Commercial business units. This is a leadership role for an experienced assurance, cybersecurity compliance, or GRC professional who can manage a team of senior technical experts, drive execution across complex government and customer requirements, and partner closely with Global Public Sector, Enterprise, Security, Engineering, Product, and the Legal team. You Will - Lead assurance programs across Scale’s Global Public Sector and Commercial businesses, including FedRAMP, NIST frameworks, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other customer, regulatory, and business assurance requirements. - Manage and develop a technical assurance team responsible for public sector authorizations, commercial assurance, audits, customer commitments, control evidence, remediation, and reporting. - Set priorities and operating cadences for assurance workflows, including intake, evidence collection, control owner follow-up, remediation tracking, metrics, and deadline management. - Build the metrics, dashboards, and reporting cadences that give company leadership a clear view of program health, key risks, and strategic priorities. - Partner with Legal on contract-driven assurance obligations, sensitive escalations, external-facing responses, and customer-facing representation issues. - Work closely with Global Public Sector, Enterprise, Security, Engineering, Product, and other control owners to validate evidence, track remediation, and support authorization and audit requirements. - Collaborate across Legal and GRC on a unified controls framework for security and other regulatory requirements. - Manage relationships with external auditors, assessors, and certification bodies. Ideally, You’d Have - 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity compliance, GRC, public and commercial sector assurance, IT audit, cloud security, or related roles. - Active U.S. security clearance, SCI eligible. - Experience leading global or region-specific assurance programs through scalable control frameworks and cross-functional execution. - Experience managing senior technical assurance, cybersecurity compliance, GRC, audit, or control evidence professionals. - Experience managing distributed teams across time zones. - Deep familiarity with FedRAMP, continuous monitoring, authorization packages, and related NIST frameworks. - Experience leading customer assurance, control evidence, remediation, reporting, and audit workflows. - Experience overseeing SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other commercial assurance frameworks. - Experience with external assessors, authorizing officials, government customers, public sector partners, commercial auditors, or certification bodies. - Experience working with legal teams on contract-driven assurance obligations, and strong judgment on when to escalate legal, contractual, technical, security, customer-facing, or privileged issues. - Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical assurance issues cle