Open GRC roles in San Francisco Bay Area (31)
Compliance Governance & Oversight Lead
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Manager
Senior Director, Privacy, Security & Data Compliance
Senior GRC Lead
Senior Director of Governance, Risk and Compliance
Enterprise Risk Analyst
AI and Agentic AI Risk Management Senior Specialist
Engineering Manager - Privacy Infrastructure
Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy
Director, Compliance Data Science & AI
Associate General Counsel, Product and Privacy
Director and Associate General Counsel, Compliance
Engineering Manager, GRC Platform
Staff+ Software Engineer, GRC Platform
Research Scientist, Frontier Risk Evaluations
Director, Engineering Governance- Bellevue, WA
Director, Engineering Governance- Mountain View, CA
Director, Associate General Counsel, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and AI
Staff+ Security Engineer, Risk Engineering
Data Governance Engineer
HR Compliance, Risk & Policy Lead
Senior HR Compliance Manager
Principal Compliance Engineer
Senior Compliance Automation Engineer
Risk Operations
Head of FX & Risk
Sr. Internal Audit Manager
Chief Audit Officer
Financial Compliance Senior Associate
Staff Analyst, Customer Audit
Auditor - Business
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.
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, ZipRecruiter, 2026, Glassdoor, 2026
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