Workplace
remote
Employment
Full-Time
Published
Aug 11, 2026
Closes
No date supplied
The role
The Assurance, Risk and Compliance (ARC) Initiatives team at MongoDB owns the governance and delivery of key cross-functional security risk and compliance initiatives. The team designs and executes programs that support compliance audits, risk assessments, common control frameworks, operating cadences, and executive reporting that strengthen the organization’s assurance, risk management and compliance objectives.
The policy and controls governance pillar is responsible for the structure, standards and operating mechanisms that keep MongoDB’s security policies, standards, procedures, and controls governance processes current, aligned, auditable and scalable across the organization. This includes ownership of the policy lifecycle, common controls framework governance, issue management, and the review cadences and cross-functional coordination needed to maintain strong governance maturity and audit readiness.
This role sits under the Assurance, Risk and Compliance function within the Global Security Office and reports to the Director of ARC Initiatives.
This role will be based remotely in the United States
Responsibilities:
Scope of Ownership
• Policy governance program ownership, including policy lifecycle management, documentation standards, review and approval cadences, change tracking, and exception governance
• Controls governance ownership, including common controls framework lifecycle management, control harmonization, framework mapping, and processes that support audit readiness and scalable control oversight
• Governance over supporting systems and workflows, including Jira, GRC tooling, documentation repositories, and reporting structures, that enable consistent execution and visibility
• Issue management and remediation governance, including intake, triage, tracking, and reporting for timely closure of findings
• Executive-ready reporting and metrics for policy health, contr
Requirements
Department: Assurance, Risk & Compliance