nCino offers exciting career opportunities for individuals who want to join the worldwide leader in cloud banking.
nCino’s Business Information Security Office (BISO) serves as the primary interface between our security posture and the customers who depend on it. As Manager, you will lead a team responsible for maintaining compliance documentation, facilitating customer audits, responding to security inquiries, and supporting vendor assessments across SOC 2, ISO, PCI, and STAR frameworks. This role requires someone equally comfortable managing day-to-day ticketing operations and engaging in compliance-focused customer conversations. The ideal candidate brings experience leading compliance-oriented teams in regulated industries, with a track record of navigating audits and familiarity with AI due diligence frameworks. You lead with a player-coach mentality, translating technical requirements into clear deliverables while empowering your team to own the work.
Essential Functions
Manage day-to-day operations of the team, overseeing administration and continuous improvement of compliance processes, systems, and documentation under your responsibility.
Ensure standard operating procedures, policies, and project guidelines are documented, maintained, and consistently applied across the team.
Support staff development through onboarding, training, coaching, and ongoing feedback; identify growth opportunities and address performance proactively.
Conduct regular performance check-ins and formal reviews; provide constructive feedback, recognize contributions, and escalate compensation or promotion recommendations as appropriate.
Facilitate team meetings, coordinate resources, and track progress against project milestones and compliance commitments.
Manage workload distribution and prioritization to ensure timely response to customer security inquiries, audit requests, and vendor assessments.
Serve as the team’s primary point of coordination for customer audits, third-party risk assessments, and security questionnaire.
Oversee the preparation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of compliance documentation and evidence packages.
Coordinate responses to customer security due diligence requests, including questionnaires and examiner inquiries, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
Assist in the development and review of information security policies, standards, and procedures, ensuring alignment with external regulatory requirements.
Support technical risk assessments of information systems and infrastructure; escalate identified issues with appropriate context and recommended remediation paths.
Coordinate delivery of information security and privacy training for employees and authorized users in partnership with broader security and HR teams.
Maintain current awareness of relevant information security laws, regulations, and frameworks applicable to the financial services industry; communicate updates to the team.
Partner with engineering, product, and legal stakeholders to escalate security improvement needs based on customer and examiner feedback.
Engage with business stakeholders to gather requirements and communicate project status, present team updates, compliance metrics, and risk summaries to management and relevant stakeholders.
Represent the team in customer-facing conversations with financial institution security and IT teams, serving as a knowledgeable point of contact.
Prepare and maintain dashboards and reports tracking compliance activities, open audit items, and team performance against defined service levels.
Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent implementation of security configurations, standards, and controls across business platforms.
Leverage AI tools and techniques to enhance work efficiency and optimize business operations by automating routine tasks to improve accuracy, save time, and minimize errors.
Utilize AI-driven insights to refine decision-making, elevate customer experience, and boost team productivity while ensuring its application provides measurable value, driving innovation and smarter ways of working.
Stay informed on AI advancements to drive continuous learning and scalable growth opportunities.
Qualifications
Required:
Undergraduate degree in computer science, information systems, or a related technology field, or equivalent work experience; advanced degree preferred.
Five or more years of experience in information security, IT compliance, or a related technical discipline, with at least one year in a team lead or people management capacity.
Working knowledge of information security frameworks and standards, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and CSA STAR.
Familiarity with AI risk and due diligence frameworks, including NIST AI RMF or equivalent.
Demonstrated ability to manage compliance documentation, coordinate audit activities, and respond to third-party security inquiries in a regulated environment.
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical security concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders, customers, and examiners.
Experience managing or coordinating distributed teams with the ability to prioritize competing demands and drive accountability across workstreams.
Understanding of cloud security principles and SaaS or multi-tenant environment security considerations.
Desired:
Experience managing vendor risk from the vendor side, including familiarity with how financial institutions evaluate SOC 2 reports, penetration test results, and SIG questionnaires.
Knowledge of financial services regulatory expectations from bodies such as OCC, FDIC, NCUA, or state banking regulators; familiarity with GLBA safeguards requirements.
Exposure to DORA requirements for organizations serving EU-based financial institutions.
Familiarity with secure SDLC practices, vulnerability management, and application security concepts.
Active pursuit of or current holding of relevant professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CRISC.
Experience participating in or supporting a security steering committee or risk committee.
If you thrive in a high-energy, entrepreneurial environment, we invite you to share your passion, ideas and excitement at nCino.
The pay range for this role is based on relative market data and alignment with our compensation philosophy. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum of the pay range for each job posting, which is used to determine new hire rates/salaries and takes into consideration multiple factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills, abilities, proficiencies, experience, education, licensures/certifications, as well as business and organizational needs. nCino reserves the right to modify the posted range consistent with our internal practices and external market movement. The recruiter for this job posting can share more compensation details during the recruitment process, as base salary is only one component of the total compensation package per position posted.
The base salary range for this job is:
$121,900.00 - $213,300.00
nCino provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetics or other protected groups. In addition to federal law requirements, nCino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
nCino is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, nCino will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at [email protected].
Our commitment to inclusion and equality includes a strong belief that the diversity of our team is instrumental to our success. We strive to create workplaces where employees are empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.
