GRC Manager Jobs 2026 15 Open Roles

The GRC manager is the engine room of the whole field, the person who actually builds and runs the program: the frameworks, the audits, the third-party risk, the SOC 2 and ISO and NIST work that keeps a company defensible. It is the role that scales fastest across tech, financial services, and security companies, and the most common on-ramp to the senior GRC seats above it.

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.

Sources: BLS, 2024 median

GRC Manager jobs: what the market looks like right now

A snapshot built from the 15 GRC Manager roles currently on this page.

What these roles pay

Of the 15 open GRC Manager roles on this page, 5 publish a salary range. Across those:

Median advertised midpoint: $215k
Middle half of the market: $170k to $255k
Full advertised range: $139k to $255k

Computed from the live postings on this page, not from survey data, and recalculated every time the board refreshes. Roles without a published range are excluded.

Where the work is

Work mode: 2 remote, 0 hybrid, 13 on-site or unstated.
Seniority mix: mid (9), senior (6)
Employers hiring more than one: Anthropic (3), Stripe (2)

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

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Certifications that come up most

None of these are universally required, but they appear often enough in GRC Manager postings to be worth knowing: CGEIT, CRISC, AIGP, CISA. The certification academy covers what each one actually tests and who it is for.

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