Remote is one of the largest GRC job markets there is, and AI governance leads it. Many governance, risk, compliance, privacy, and AI-policy roles are now fully distributed, because the work is framework and oversight driven rather than location bound. If you want the widest possible set of GRC openings without relocating, the remote market is where the volume lives.
Remote GRC at a glance
Key sectors: AI governance, privacy, and policy-driven compliance. On the board now: 148 local and 0 remote-eligible jobs.
Compliance Officer paystats as of Q2 2026
BLS put the 2024 median at $78,420. In 2026, market trackers show averages from roughly $99,000 to $120,000, with the top quartile above $160,000. Financial centers and senior governance roles sit at the top of that range.
Remote GRC jobs: what the market looks like right now
A snapshot built from the 148 Remote GRC roles currently on this page.
What these roles pay by level
Median advertised midpoint, by seniority band. Bars are to scale.
Median advertised salary midpoint by seniority level
Level
Median midpoint
Postings
Mid-level
$96k
17
Senior / lead / manager
$139k
35
Director
$173k
11
Executive / C-suite
$250k
6
How these figures were calculated, and sources
Primary source: our own board. Every figure above is the median midpoint of the salary ranges published in the live postings on this page. Nothing is estimated, modeled, or carried over from a previous month. It is recalculated each time the board refreshes.
What is included. Only postings that publish a salary range. Hourly, weekly and monthly rates are annualised (2,080 hours, 52 weeks, 12 months). Ranges below $20,000 a year are excluded as data-entry placeholders. A seniority band is shown only when at least five postings support it.
What this is not. These are advertised ranges, not accepted offers. Advertised ranges tend to run wider than what is actually paid, and roles that do not publish a range are missing from the calculation entirely, which can bias the result upward.
For an independent benchmark, compare against the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for SOC 13-1041 — Compliance Officers, published annually at bls.gov/oes. BLS reports actual wages across all employers rather than advertised ranges, so its medians normally sit below job-board figures.
Where the work is
Work mode: 148 remote, 1 hybrid, -1 on-site or unstated.
Seniority mix: senior (67), mid (51), director (15), executive (15)
Employers hiring more than one: Pathward (18), Coinbase (16), Mercury (11), Sezzle (11), Affirm (9), Twilio (7)
Skills these postings ask for
board and committee reporting
policy lifecycle ownership
risk appetite and tolerance setting
three-lines-of-defense operating models
ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF fluency
How to get a governance job — the full career guide for this field: entry routes, transferable backgrounds, certifications and salary by level.
Certifications that come up most
None of these are universally required, but they appear often enough in Remote GRC postings to be worth knowing: CGEIT, CRISC, AIGP, CISA. The certification academy covers what each one actually tests and who it is for.
Remote GRC jobs: tools, skills and workflows
What tools do remote GRC jobs use?
Remote changes the tooling emphasis, not the tooling. Everything has to live in a system rather than in someone's head or a hallway conversation, so the GRC platform, the evidence repository and the findings tracker carry more weight than they do in an office. Expect heavy use of a shared control library, ticketing wired into engineering's own queue, async documentation, and evidence collection that runs on a schedule rather than by walking to someone's desk. Our GRC tools and automation skills guide covers configuring that layer.
What skills do remote GRC jobs require that on-site ones do not?
Writing, mostly. In an office you can carry a weak control description with a conversation; remote, the document is the control. Add async stakeholder management across time zones, the discipline to document a decision at the moment it is made, and enough platform skill to build a workflow that chases people for you. Hiring managers screen hard for this because a remote GRC hire who needs supervision costs more than an on-site one.
What does a remote GRC workflow look like day to day?
Intake arrives in a queue rather than by tap on the shoulder. You triage, decide what applies, and either clear it or open an assessment. Assessments produce risks, risks pull controls, controls have owners and test dates, tests produce evidence and findings on a clock. The loop is the same one an on-site team runs. The difference is that every handoff has to be legible to someone who will read it eight hours later in another country.
Are remote GRC jobs actually remote, or hybrid?
Both appear on this page and the listing says which. Fully remote is most common in cloud, SaaS and consulting; hybrid dominates in banking, healthcare and government, where evidence sometimes lives behind a badge reader. Use Super Search to filter by work mode alongside location, function and certification, or see fractional and interim GRC work if you would rather take engagements than a seat.
Hiring for Remote GRC?
We have 148 open Remote GRC roles on the board right now. Reach candidates who are already searching for this role, not a general audience. Your posting appears on this page, in the job alerts, and across the GRC Careers network.
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