Head of Global Assurance

Scale seeks a Head of Global Assurance to lead a high-performing team of technical experts advancing Scale’s assurance programs across its Global Public Sector and Commercial business units.

This is a leadership role for an experienced assurance, cybersecurity compliance, or GRC professional who can manage a team of senior technical experts, drive execution across complex government and customer requirements, and partner closely with Global Public Sector, Enterprise, Security, Engineering, Product, and the Legal team.

You Will

• Lead assurance programs across Scale’s Global Public Sector and Commercial businesses, including FedRAMP, NIST frameworks, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other customer, regulatory, and business assurance requirements.
  
  
• Manage and develop a technical assurance team responsible for public sector authorizations, commercial assurance, audits, customer commitments, control evidence, remediation, and reporting.
  
  
• Set priorities and operating cadences for assurance workflows, including intake, evidence collection, control owner follow-up, remediation tracking, metrics, and deadline management.
  
  
• Build the metrics, dashboards, and reporting cadences that give company leadership a clear view of program health, key risks, and strategic priorities.
  
  
• Partner with Legal on contract-driven assurance obligations, sensitive escalations, external-facing responses, and customer-facing representation issues.
  
  
• Work closely with Global Public Sector, Enterprise, Security, Engineering, Product, and other control owners to validate evidence, track remediation, and support authorization and audit requirements.
  
  
• Collaborate across Legal and GRC on a unified controls framework for security and other regulatory requirements.
  
  
• Manage relationships with external auditors, assessors, and certification bodies.

Ideally, You’d Have

• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity compliance, GRC, public and commercial sector assurance, IT audit, cloud security, or related roles.
  
  
• Active U.S. security clearance, SCI eligible.
  
  
• Experience leading global or region-specific assurance programs through scalable control frameworks and cross-functional execution.
  
  
• Experience managing senior technical assurance, cybersecurity compliance, GRC, audit, or control evidence professionals.
  
  
• Experience managing distributed teams across time zones.
  
  
• Deep familiarity with FedRAMP, continuous monitoring, authorization packages, and related NIST frameworks.
  
  
• Experience leading customer assurance, control evidence, remediation, reporting, and audit workflows.
  
  
• Experience overseeing SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other commercial assurance frameworks.
  
  
• Experience with external assessors, authorizing officials, government customers, public sector partners, commercial auditors, or certification bodies.
  
  
• Experience working with legal teams on contract-driven assurance obligations, and strong judgment on when to escalate legal, contractual, technical, security, customer-facing, or privileged issues.
  
  
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical assurance issues clearly to legal, business, security, and executive audiences.

• Experience developing compliance or assurance approaches for emerging technologies, including GenAI, AI/ML, data platforms, or cloud infrastructure.
  
  
• Experience advising leadership on assurance, compliance, and risk tradeoffs in fast-moving technical environments.
  
  
• Experience with defense, federal civilian, classified, national security, GovCloud, or JAB authorization environments.
  
  
• Ability to translate new or ambiguous technical issues into practical compliance controls and implementation plans.

Nice to Have

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or similar credentials.