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Governance, risk, and compliance jobs in Legal: law firms, in-house legal, and legal technology.
Open Legal GRC jobs (51)
Sales Compensation Policy and Governance Principal
Head of Ethics and Employment Law
Compliance Innovation & AI Lead
Audit Manager - Finance & Pricing Directorate
Auditor
DBMN - Senior Principal Auditor, Validations - VP
Auditor
Data Privacy and Security Counsel (US Federal)
Senior Privacy Counsel - APAC
Compliance Director
Privacy Legal Counsel
Legal Counsel, Supply Chain and Government Contracts Compliance
Sanctions Compliance Lead
Auditor
General Attorney (Information and Privacy Law)
Supervisory Auditor (Performance)
Counsel - Third Party Risk Management
Senior Compliance Officer, Japan
Interim General Counsel
VP, Compliance & Risk
Sr. Counsel, Privacy Compliance
Regulatory Counsel, AI Regulation, US
Director, Compliance Business Partner
Senior Privacy Counsel
Senior Vice President, Head of Compliance
Senior Privacy and AI Counsel
Product & Privacy Counsel
Director of IT Governance
Director, Privacy Counsel
Senior AI Governance Counsel
Senior Director of Information Risk & Governance
Risk Partner
Assistant General Counsel, AI, Emerging Technologies & Strategic Agreements
Director of IT Governance
Senior Director of Compliance & Regulatory Affairs
Legal & Compliance AI Architect
Paralegal, Compliance
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Manager
IT Enterprise Risk Analyst
Director Risk Management
VP, Chief Risk Officer
Contract Manager - Legal & Compliance
Director of Compliance & Risk Management
Counsel, AI Risk & Compliance
Director, AI Governance Attorney
Director, Global Enrollment Management and Student Success Compliance
Counsel, Product & Regulatory - Payments & AML
Attorney (Privacy and Civil Liberties)
Corporate Counsel, Spacecraft Licensing
Director of Healthcare Risk Management
Senior Privacy Counsel
The Legal GRC market
Where GRC ends and the law begins is a blurry line, and a lot of the best governance work lives right on it. Privacy counsel, compliance counsel, AI and regulatory attorneys, and legal-operations professionals sit at the heart of how companies read the rules and build to them. Law firms, legal-tech companies, and in-house legal teams hire steadily for people who can turn a statute into a working control. If you came up through the law and think in obligations, this is your lane.
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
Legal GRC jobs: what the market looks like right now
A snapshot built from the 51 Legal GRC roles currently on this page.
What these roles pay by level
| Level | Median midpoint | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | $171k | 11 |
| Director | $166k | 5 |
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, modelled, 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; senior / lead / manager and executive / c-suite are present on this page but below that threshold, so no median is published for those bands.
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: 5 remote, 4 hybrid, 42 on-site or unstated.
- Seniority mix: mid (21), director (13), senior (12), executive (5)
- Employers hiring more than one: Workday (2), Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys (2), Adyen (2), Anthropic (2), Penn State University (2)
Skills these postings ask for
- policy and procedure writing
- control testing and evidence collection
- regulatory change management
- SOX and SOC 2 readiness
- issue management and remediation tracking
How to get a compliance 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 Legal GRC postings to be worth knowing: CCEP, CRCM, CAMS, CIPP/US, AIGP. The certification academy covers what each one actually tests and who it is for.
Hiring for Legal GRC?
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