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San Francisco Bay Area GRC Jobs
Governance, risk, and compliance jobs in San Francisco Bay Area: frontier AI, technology platforms, and fintech.
Open GRC jobs in San Francisco Bay Area (52)
Lead, Security Controls Assurance - SOX
Governance, Risk, and Compliance Manager - FedRAMP
Governance, Risk, and Compliance Manager - Privacy
Senior GRC Analyst
Product Manager, Multi-Cloud Trust & Safety
KYC Investigator - Ongoing Due Diligence
Senior Manager, IT SOX
Senior Customer Support Controls & Governance Program Manager
Internal Audit Data Analytics Lead
Sanctions Compliance Lead
Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy
Accounting, Revenue Internal Controls
Risk Partnerships Manager, Stablecoin
Regulatory Counsel, AI Regulation, US
Senior Compliance Risk Manager - Prudential
Product Policy Manager, Product Risk
Tax Director, Provision & Compliance
Threat Intel Manager, Model Exploitation & Fraud
Digital Assets Compliance
Senior IT Internal Auditor
Governance, Risk & Compliance Analyst
IT Governance Analyst
Senior Research Lead, AI Security Portfolio
Senior Manager - Data & AI Governance
Director, Compliance & AI Governance
Senior Manager, Data & AI Governance
Legal & Compliance AI Architect
Staff+ Software Engineer, Financial Fraud
Sr Product Manager, Risk Platform
Principal Product Marketing Manager, AI Governance
Security Engineer, GRC
Staff Software Engineer - Data Governance
Account Executive - Fraud
Staff Software Engineer, Financial Crimes
Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering
Research Engineer, Privacy
Security Compliance Analyst, Privacy
Tech Governance - Security Compliance Engineer
Counsel, Product & Regulatory - Payments & AML
Device Safety & Risk Operations Specialist, User Safety & Risk Operations
Staff Software Engineer - Fraud
Sr Data Scientist, Risk Strategy
Senior Fraud Research Analyst
Technical Lead Manager, Data Engineering, Trust & Safety
Security Controls Assurance Lead
Engineering Manager, GRC Platform
Staff+ Software Engineer, GRC Platform
Staff+ Security Engineer, Risk Engineering
Principal Compliance Engineer
Senior Compliance Automation Engineer
Research Scientist, Frontier Risk Evaluations
Data Governance Engineer
The San Francisco Bay Area GRC market
The San Francisco Bay Area is where AI governance is being invented. The concentration of frontier AI labs, platform companies, and venture-backed startups has created demand for responsible AI, model risk, AI compliance, privacy, and data governance roles that barely existed a few years ago. Layer in a large fintech and financial-services presence and the Bay Area becomes the leading market for the newest category of GRC work: governing the AI systems themselves.
Key sectors: frontier AI, technology platforms, and fintech. On the board now: 52 local and 0 remote-eligible jobs.
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
San Francisco Bay Area GRC jobs: what the market looks like right now
A snapshot built from the 52 San Francisco Bay Area GRC roles currently on this page.
What these roles pay by level
| Level | Median midpoint | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | $320k | 10 |
| Senior / lead / manager | $243k | 19 |
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; director is present on this page but below that threshold, so no median is published for that band.
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: 7 remote, 0 hybrid, 45 on-site or unstated.
- Seniority mix: senior (26), mid (24), director (2)
- Employers hiring more than one: Anthropic (15), Mercury (7), Plaid (4), OpenAI (4), OKX (3), Decagon (2)
Skills these postings ask for
- board and committee reporting
- policy lifecycle ownership
- risk appetite and tolerance setting
- three-lines-of-defence 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 San Francisco Bay Area GRC 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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