GRC Program Manager (d/f/m)

As a GRC Program Manager (d/f/m) your responsibilities will include:

• Drive Program Execution & Ownership: Take full end-to-end accountability for GRC deliverables, setting timelines, tracking cross-functional dependencies, and orchestrating teams to ensure compliance milestones are hit on schedule.
• Lead Internal Audit Operations: Serve as the primary internal leader and project owner for third party audits (e.g., SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, ). Own the process from scoping to successful completion, managing evidence collection, guiding control owners, and leading remediation efforts.
• Build & Scale Compliance Frameworks: Maintain and mature robust compliance frameworks, ensuring continued preparation for evolving global requirements such as GDPR and related security standards.
• Manage Risk & Remediation Workflows: Conduct practical IT, security, and third-party risk assessments. Maintain vivenu’s risk register, ensuring risk treatment plans and corrective actions are actively assigned, tracked, and closed out by control owners.
• Optimize GRC Operations & Tooling: Leverage modern GRC platforms and automation tools to streamline audit tracking, policy administration, vendor risk management and issue remediation workflows.
• Enable Engineering & Product Teams: Partner closely with technical teams to embed security controls, privacy-by-design, and cloud best practices directly into our development lifecycle and API-first platform.
• Support Enterprise Sales Readiness: Assist in answering complex enterprise customer security questionnaires, supporting third-party risk reviews, and demonstrating vivenu's robust compliance posture during high-value sales engagements.
• Governance & Executive Reporting: Translate complex technical and regulatory findings into clear risk posture dashboards, KRIs, and operational updates for leadership.

What you will need to succeed in this role:

• Execution & Program Management: Proven track record of getting things done: driving cross-functional projects, aligning diverse technical and business stakeholders, and holding teams accountable to deliverables.
• Audit Leadership Experience: Hands-on experience leading major compliance audits (e.g., SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001) from start to finish as the internal counterpart and owner.
• Domain Context: Prior experience in SaaS, Fintech, or cloud-native technology environments is highly preferred. If your background is from another sector, a strong curiosity and fast-learning mindset toward modern cloud, API, and SaaS architectures is required.
• GRC Experience: demonstrated exposure to GRC and Security processes such as risk assessments, internal audits, policy development, corrective actions management.
• Framework Familiarity: Solid working knowledge of core industry standards and frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR, NIST CSF/RMF).
• Communication & Influence: Outstanding ability to translate regulatory requirements into clear operational steps, communicating effectively with both deep technical experts and business executives.
• Location: Must be currently residing in and authorized to work in Germany. 
• Languages: Business fluency in English is required. 
Nice to have: 
Technical Aptitude: Basic hands-on technical familiarity (e.g., basic scripting, working with APIs, or reading system logs/configurations) is a big plus.
Exposure to GRC automation tools (e.g., Vanta, Drata, ServiceNow IRM, or LogicGate).
Relevant professional certifications such as CRISC, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CSSP or ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor.
German language proficiency would be a plus.