At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.

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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As a Senior Applied AI Engineer at Vanta, you will play a crucial role in shaping Vanta’s AI offerings, setting technical strategy, and leading projects that leverage AI to deliver smarter, faster outcomes for our customers. You'll be part of a team integrating AI into the Vanta product, working alongside a multidisciplinary group of product engineers, machine learning engineers, product managers, designers, and security and compliance experts to implement, scale, and maintain AI-enabled product experiences. In this role, you’ll build products that enable Vanta’s customers to leverage AI to accelerate their journey towards compliance, managing risk, and earning trust.Visit our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.vanta.com/all-categories/engineering">Vanta Engineering Blog</a> to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as an engineer working on Applied AI at Vanta:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Work cross-functionally to design and implement AI-powered features to deliver customer value and integrate LLMs with Vanta’s existing products and systems. You’ll work with other product engineers across Vanta to understand how AI systems can accelerate product adoption at Vanta</li><li>Instrument evaluations, guardrails, and monitoring, and review customer usage to continually improve quality</li><li>Collaborate with AI Platform engineers shaping foundational AI systems and tooling that accelerate product teams</li><li>Make pragmatic tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation</li><li>Mentor engineers, champion good technical and product instincts, and model a collaborative, high-ownership engineering culture</li></ul>How to be successful in this role:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>At least 7 years of industry experience as a software engineer</li><li>You’ve shipped LLM-backed products and have experience with prompting, RAG, and/or agent frameworks</li><li>You have experience designing, building, and scaling full-stack applications, including backend systems, APIs, and frontend interfaces. You have familiarity with TypeScript, React, and Node.js, or a willingness to learn!</li><li>You have experience improving AI systems, creating eval sets, and driving quality hill-climbing</li><li>You have experience mentoring other engineers and collaborating with product and design</li><li>You have worked at rapidly scaling startups and large companies, especially with environments that prioritize a bias for action</li><li>You are action-driven, willing to roll up your sleeves and engage directly with users. You aren’t afraid to put on your product hat. While you bring strong opinions, you prioritize building a platform that meets users where they are</li></ul>What you can expect as a Vanta'n:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Industry-competitive salary and equity</li><li>100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage</li><li>Pension contribution</li><li>16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents</li><li>Health & wellness stipend</li><li>Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend</li><li>Flexible work hours and location</li><li>21 days of Vacation Time and 80 hours of Sick Leave</li><li>11 company-paid holidays</li><li>Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!</li><li>Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney</li></ul>To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials. #LI-remoteAt Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.About VantaWe started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged. Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.Referral InstructionsIf you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.<div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div>

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Software Engineer, AI Product (Canada)

Vanta is the leading trust management platform that helps simplify and centralize security for organizations of all sizes. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate trust in a way that's real-time and transparent. Founded in 2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin, New York, San Francisco and Sydney.

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International Growth GM

Chief Financial Officer

Created and built out Vanta's first Implementation team. Currently managing a team of 6 Implementation Managers.

Manager, Customer Success

Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

VP, Sales & Partnerships

Full-cycle recruiter leading hiring across the CX, Marketing, Sales, Business/Operations teams

Lead Recruiter

Senior Account Manager

Emerging Products Account Executive

Senior Technical Support Engineer

VP Product

CSM for Vanta’s Vanta

Customer Success, Strategic

Technical Support Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Talent Brand/Ops Specialist

Board Member (Independent)

Our mission at Vanta is to be a layer of trust on top of cloud services, to secure the internet, increase trust in software companies, and keep consumer data safe. Think of us as your automated security and compliance expert.

Account Executive

Partner Program Manager

Vanta automates compliance and simplifies security.

Running the largest revenue organization at Vanta across SMB and MM Sales. Leading a team of 4 Sales Managers and 30 AEsOversaw ARR growth of 150%+ YoY and introduced the below to help scale:---built and launched new sales playbook around Challenger/Value selling---shifted hiring process to test for attributes---developed and implemented quota capacity model---wrote Sales Manager playbook---Built and ran forecasting process, and forecasting stage categories---implemented pipeline hygiene metrics driving stale pipeline < 5%---planned and executed sales enablement programs weekly across a 3.5 month program---created sales leadership development framework based on sales leadership skill competencies---implemented performance management tracking---rolled out and helped design AE Comp plans---partnered with Marketing and Customer success to develop first ever SLAs and collaboration—-participated in the creation/launch of the Value framework through Command of the Message FORCE Management program

Director of Sales

-Looped into 149 competitive deals the last few months. We won 103 of those deals (70%). $1,356,000 Closed Won ARR since November 2022.

Account Executive III

Some highlights/achievements:-Lead product trainings weekly with peers helping them learn the competitive advantages.-Looped into 93 competitive deals to help (11/15-4/11). Win rate over 70% against those competitors. -Part of the team implementing new intelligence tools into Vanta to enable our reps to prospect better.

Account Executive ll

Working on Vanta's new products to help buyers evaluate the security of their vendors.

Senior Product Manager

Software Engineer

Technical Recruiter

Sales Team Lead - EMEA (landing team)

Customer Success Manager

Role Description:Work to support small-medium businesses and growing startups, ensuring they are able to meet compliance standards (SOC II, ISO27001, GDPR, etc.) with the use of a fully integrated web platform. Intaking inbound customer requests utilizing the Zendesk ticketing system. Issues from clients can range from integration questions (task trackers, HRIS Applications, version control systems, and identity providers), documenting and escalating known bugs within the product through…  Role Description:Work to support small-medium businesses and growing startups, ensuring they are able to meet compliance standards (SOC II, ISO27001, GDPR, etc.) with the use of a fully integrated web platform. Intaking inbound customer requests utilizing the Zendesk ticketing system. Issues from clients can range from integration questions (task trackers, HRIS Applications, version control systems, and identity providers), documenting and escalating known bugs within the product through the use of Shortcut and Incident.io, and answering surface-level compliance and standards questions customers have as they head into their audit window.Responsibilities:-Triaging and resolving inbound customer email requests ranging from technical product questions, compliance and standard expectations, and platform issues.-Apply Agile methodologies, cross-collaborating with multiple functional teams within the business organization for incident tracking and resolution, sales solutions, customer onboarding, internal documentation, customer-facing knowledge articles, establishing subject matter expect teams.-Assist in the connection and configuration with various integrations through use of API and scripts. These can vary from assigning IAM policies within AWS, enabling API Permissions with GCP and GCR, and setting vulnerability scanning for version control systems.- Sharing and creating internal documentation for internal processes, support workflows, known issue workarounds, and feature briefs.- Maintaining professional and knowledgeable correspondence to various roles within an organization, breaking down complex technical questions into steps accessible to users at any skill level. 

Product Support Specialist

Senior Customer Success Manager, International Team

Security Lead

Head Of Design

Marketing And Public Relations Specialist

Senior Global Demand Generation Specialist

Securing the internet and protecting consumer data, one company at a time.Vanta offers a trust management platform that enables our customers to get compliant quickly and stay secure over time. 5000+ customers rely on Vanta to improve and demonstrate their security.We've found incredible product-market fit, and our customer base is growing like crazy. We're still at the beginning of our journey, and of course, we're hiring! vanta.com/jobs

Head of Engineering

Building the Data and Analytics function at Vanta.

Head of Data and Analytics

Associate General Counsel

Head of Legal

Lead Vanta's Strategic and Channel partner teams.

Senior Manager, Partner Success

Founding member of Vanta's Channel Partnership Department.2022 Q4 Attainment: 120%2022 Q3 Attainment: 195%2022 H1 Attainment: 185%

Channel Sales Manager

Technical lead for the Automation Platform org.

Staff Software Engineer, Area Tech Lead

Chief People and Legal Officer

Product

Senior Technical Recruiter

Senior Mid-Market Sales Development Representative

Cofounder and CEO

Sr. Product Advisor, Governance Risk Compliance

Leading multiple product teams focused on new 0-1 products, self-service/PLG motions, and product platform

Founding member of Vanta’s Implementation team.Supporting North America & APAC.

Implementation Manager

Founding member of Vanta’s Implementation team. Supporting North America & APAC.

Sr. Implementation Manager

Head of Marketing

[Still] on a mission to secure the internet and protect consumer data!

VP of Product and Corporate Marketing

Growth Operations

Team Member

Software Engineer, AI Product

A team that takes time and effort for its members to develop their skills and knowledge.

A team that prioritizes its members' personal commitments and wellbeing alongside work.

A team that is friendly and enjoys each other's company, chatting, and doing social activities together.

A team that motivates its members through rewards, incentives, and bonuses.

A team that has aggressive goals and motivates its members to achieve their individual goals through competition.