--- title: 'GRC Program Manager at Palantir Technologies' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/grc-program-manager-palantir-technologies-seattle-esd28dq3z0sh' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # GRC Program Manager at Palantir Technologies - **Company:** Palantir Technologies - **Location:** Seattle, WA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-07-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/palantir/e5869901-d578-4229-a856-47af76a8f39a ## Job description A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. ## The Role As a GRC Program Manager, you are the engine behind Palantir's Governance, Risk, and Compliance programs. You partner with compliance engineers, security teams, and developers to design and scale the processes that keep our Commercial, International, and US Government businesses operating at the highest regulatory standards. You track and stabilize projects, remove roadblocks, and anticipate stakeholder needs to free up our specialists to focus on the problems they are best equipped to solve. Core Responsibilities - Design, document, and continuously improve compliance processes and frameworks to scale GRC operations across Commercial, IG, and USG environments. - Serve as connective tissue across teams, translating regulatory requirements into actionable workflows and ensuring accountability at every stage of the compliance lifecycle. - Coordinate across internal and external audit cycles (FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.), ensuring evidence collection, remediation tracking, and stakeholder communication stay on schedule. - Keep broad and complete state of everything involving or related to your projects, including audit timelines, control implementation status, and continuous monitoring obligations. Pre-empt and resolve any issues that may steer projects off-course. - Enhance cross-team collaboration across engineering, legal, and customer-facing teams to drive key GRC deliverables through the entire software development and compliance lifecycle. - Synthesize concrete compliance goals from product and regulatory vision, mapping global strategy to granular team tasks and issues. This means triaging requests from the field to create maximum focus for the team, while escalating items that need immediate attention. - Work with customer-facing engineering teams on adoption, roll out, and support of compliance-related product features and certifications. ## What We Value - Demonstrated success managing compliance programs for an enterprise software company, startup or other company. - Experience with multiple GRC frameworks and standards, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, IRAP or ENS. Experience in USG-specific frameworks is particularly valuable: FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, DoD CC SRG, FISMA, or CMMC. - Excellent judgment and composure in high-pressure situations, including during active audits or compliance incidents. - A creative approach to project management centered around lightweight frameworks that enable rapid iteration, while operating in harmony with a larger development and compliance organization. - An ability to develop strong relationships with key internal stakeholders (including customer-facing teams), auditors, and regulators, with a high level of empathy for our end-users' needs. - Meticulous attention to detail, including holding tightly to your team's compliance and product quality bar. - A proven track record of building and scaling compliance processes from the ground up, particularly in USG-regulated environments. - Experience with risk management methodologies, including maintaining risk registers, conducting risk assessments, and managing third-party or vendor risk programs. ## What We Require - This role requires that you work from the country listed on this job posting and that you are based within a commutable distance of your local Palantir office. - Willingness and eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance preferred. ## About Palantir Technologies ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Palantir builds software platforms that empower organizations to integrate their data, decisions, and operations at scale. - **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: PLTR) - **Headquarters**: Miami, Florida, United States - **Founded**: 2003 - **Founders**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources (widely reported as Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and Stephen Cohen) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Data integration, artificial intelligence, defense & intelligence, commercial analytics - **Target customers**: Government agencies (defense, intelligence, civil), large commercial enterprises, and regulated industries - **Mission or purpose**: “Build foundational software for tomorrow” and design technology that helps institutions protect liberty while making human‑driven analysis of real‑world data possible [palantir.com/about] ## Products & Services - **Palantir Gotham**: Platform for the intelligence and defense community, enabling counterterrorism investigations and operations. - **Palantir Foundry**: Foundational data operations platform providing data management, logic authoring, ontology development, analytics, and workflow building. - **Palantir Apollo**: Continuous delivery platform that orchestrates upgrades and manages the infrastructure hosting other Palantir platforms. - **Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP)**: Generative AI platform with secure connectivity to third‑party LLMs, development toolchain for AI agents, AI‑enabled end‑user applications, and evaluation frameworks for governing AI workflows. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: $100.6 B (as of the search date, approximate) - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $4.5 B (latest fiscal year); IPO in 2020 - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Public market investors; major U.S. and allied government agencies, commercial clients across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and logistics - **Growth Signals**: 3,843 employees (+20.2% YoY, +998 people); operations in 12 countries; workforce distributed across 49 countries; continued expansion of AIP and commercial customer base ## Competitive Advantages - **Engineer‑in‑the‑field model**: Palantir sends engineers directly to customers to deploy products, integrate data, and produce operational results in weeks, not years. - **Privacy‑by‑design**: Built‑in privacy‑protective capabilities, governance tools, and a strong track record of working with advocacy groups on responsible data use. - **Platform lock‑in**: Deep integration with customer data and workflows through Ontology and custom applications makes switching costs extremely high. - **Long‑term government contracts**: Decades‑long relationships with U.S. and allied defense/intelligence agencies provide stable revenue and high barriers to entry. ## Strategic Focus - **AI leadership**: Making AIP the standard for secure, governed generative AI deployment in regulated industries. - **Commercial expansion**: Growing the commercial customer base beyond government, especially in supply chain, healthcare, and finance. - **Continuous delivery**: Leveraging Apollo to ensure rapid, safe updates across all deployments, reducing maintenance overhead for customers. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Mission‑driven engineering environment where engineers work directly on the hardest problems for critical institutions. “We’re engineers, not academics.” - **Autonomy and impact**: New hires are trusted with responsibility from day one and are paired with a mentor. “Palantir trusts our early talent engineers to make an impact from day one.” - **Flexibility**: Take‑what‑you‑need time‑off policy; offices closed for two weeks in December; flexible working arrangements including remote work when appropriate. - **Benefits**: Generous paid parental leave, fertility services, adoption assistance, equity programs, mental health support (virtual therapy, meditation), and robust healthcare coverage. - **Diversity & inclusion**: Equal Employment Opportunity employer; publishes UK Gender Pay Gap Report; strives for “many pathways to success” beyond traditional career ladders. [palantir.com/careers/life-at-palantir] ## Sources 1. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/palantir-technologies) 2. [Palantir About Page](https://www.palantir.com/about/) 3. [Palantir Careers – Life at Palantir](https://www.palantir.com/careers/life-at-palantir/) 4. [Palantir Careers – Open Positions](https://www.palantir.com/careers/open-positions/) 5. 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