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San Francisco Bay Area GRC Jobs
Governance, risk, and compliance roles in San Francisco Bay Area: frontier AI, technology platforms, and fintech.
Open GRC roles in San Francisco Bay Area (28)
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Tech Governance - Security Compliance Engineer
AI Governance Analyst
Policy Design Manager, Age-Appropriate Design
Senior GRC Analyst
Governance, Risk, and Compliance Analyst
Manager of Risk & Governance (AI Safety)
Agentic Risk Analyst
Senior Workforce Governance Program Manager
Security Controls Assurance Lead
Internal Audit Manager
Senior Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) Analyst
Safeguards Policy Analyst, Fraud & Scams
Sr. Staff Security Assurance Engineer
Internal Audit Lead, Stablecoins & Digital Assets
Staff Product Manager, Risk Product Experience
Counsel, Product & Regulatory - Payments & AML
Staff Software Engineer - Fraud
Data Scientist, Risk
Sr Data Scientist, Risk Strategy
Fraud and Abuse Operations Analyst
Senior Fraud Research Analyst
Strategic Operations Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations
Analytics & Automation Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations
Technical Lead Manager, Data Engineering, Trust & Safety
Device Safety & Risk Operations Specialist, User Safety & Risk Operations
Head of Product, Assurance
Compliance Manager, Marketing
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: 28 local and 0 remote-eligible roles.
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