Senior Technical Governance Program Manager
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. So we need to decide which sections to include.
We have content: About Lead Bank (company description) and Information Security Team at Lead (team description). Could be "About the role"? Actually role description is separate. There's "Role Description". Then "Key Responsibilities". Then "Qualifications". Then "What We Offer" includes benefits and compensation. Also there is pay ranges (Zone 1-3). So we can have sections: About the role (maybe combine About Lead Bank and Information Security Team?), Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. Possibly also "Skills"? Not explicit.
We must not include headings with filler. So we need to ensure each heading has substantive content.
Let's extract:
About Lead Bank: paragraph about Lead.
Information Security Team at Lead: paragraph about team.
Role Description: paragraph about role.
Key Responsibilities: list of bullet points (each starts with a verb). We'll put in - .
Qualifications: list of bullet points (each starts with something). We'll put in
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What We Offer: includes benefits list and compensation ranges. We'll separate Benefits and Pay sections.
Benefits: bullet list of benefits: Competitive compensation based on experience... Actually that's compensation. Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRAPaid parental leaveFlexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidaysA fun and challenging team environment... Also inclusive culture statement etc. We'll extract substantive benefits.
Pay: we have zone ranges.
Schedule: not mentioned, so omit.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Remove those lines.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the exact text? Probably we can keep the substance but can rephrase? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Means we should not omit details, but we can keep them as is. Likely we should copy the sentences.
We'll produce HTML:
About Lead Bank
Lead is a banking infrastructure platform trusted by the most innovative companies to power complex financial products. We enable fintechs to offer compliant, programmable services like payments, lending, and digital assets at scale. Banking has moved beyond traditional institutions and is now embedded directly into everyday experiences, meaning companies need modern infrastructure that is safe, secure, and operationally sound. Today, Lead is one of the only API-first, developer-focused partner banks with the financial, regulatory, and legal expertise required to help fintechs succeed. We operate offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, and an FDIC-insured bank in Kansas City.
Information Security Team
The Information Security team helps Lead stay nimble enough to move fast without compromising on safety. They own cybersecurity, overseeing detection and response, and building security controls for all data networks, cloud infrastructures, and IT systems. Working closely with the Risk, Compliance, and Audit teams, they ensure Lead meets and stays up to date on all security standards. Scaling the systems that protect Lead and the fintechs we serve requires critical thinking, good judgment, and an ownership mentality. This is a collaborative team of builders who approach problems creatively, constantly iterating to improve the security of our platform.
Role Description
Lead Bank is seeking a Senior Security Technical Governance Program Manager to lead the strategy, execution, and continuous optimization of the bank’s technology governance, compliance, and risk programs. This role will be responsible for ensuring that security controls across the bank’s technology environment, internal operations, and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) ecosystem meet rigorous regulatory requirements, industry standards, and internal risk tolerance. The Senior Technical Governance Program Manager will play a critical role in standardizing security compliance processes, driving continuous monitoring, and embedding automated security controls into everyday operations. This position will partner closely with Security Engineering, Technology, Data, Compliance, and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) teams to modernize control frameworks, maintain constant audit readiness, and safely govern emerging technologies across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage enterprise technology governance, risk, compliance, and control initiatives across Information Security, Technology, Engineering, and Data organizations.
- Lead, mentor, and develop team members, including setting priorities and goals, providing ongoing coaching and feedback, and supporting professional growth and performance.
- Drive enterprise Data Management and Governance initiatives, including data security, data classification, retention, data quality, governance controls, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Lead governance and readiness programs for enterprise Disaster Recovery (DR), including readiness assessments, control reviews, tabletop exercises, recovery testing, lessons learned, and resiliency improvement initiatives.
- Manage Security Compliance programs across Information Security, Technology, and Engineering teams, ensuring alignment with applicable regulatory requirements, industry frameworks, internal policies, and security best practices.
- Manage and oversee the enterprise Security Third-Party Risk Program, including risk assessments, due diligence, ongoing monitoring, control reviews, audits, issue management, and remediation tracking.
- Drive automation of audit and compliance evidence gathering, control monitoring, and governance workflows to improve efficiency, consistency, audit readiness, and control effectiveness.
- Lead coordination of internal and external audits covering technology, cybersecurity, cloud, engineering, infrastructure, and related controls. Manage evidence collection, lead control walkthroughs, audit requests, findings, and remediation activities through closure.
- Support and lead strategic initiatives and special projects including but not limited to emerging technology risk, Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance and risk management, compliance program enhancements, automation, regulatory readiness, and technology control modernization.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen technology governance and compliance through automation, continuous monitoring, risk-based controls, standardized processes, and scalable program improvements.
- Perform all other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- 5–8 years of experience in Technology, Information Security, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Technology Risk, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), or a related discipline.
- Experience managing, mentoring, and developing teams, with demonstrated ability to set priorities, provide feedback, and drive individual and team performance.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional technology governance, risk, compliance, or security programs in high-growth technology, fintech, startup, or similarly fast-paced environments.
- Experience in banking, financial services, or other highly regulated industries preferred.
- Familiarity with AI tools, AI governance, AI risk management, and emerging technology controls.
- Strong understanding of technology governance, cybersecurity frameworks, cloud platforms, infrastructure security, engineering controls, technology risk, enterprise risk management, and compliance practices.
- Experience working with internal and external auditors and managing remediation activities from identification through closure.
- Demonstrated ability to automate, streamline, or modernize compliance, governance, risk, and audit evidence processes.
- Experience developing governance metrics, executive reporting, risk assessments, control frameworks, or compliance dashboards.
- Strong program management, stakeholder management, communication, organizational, analytical, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to operate effectively across technical and non-technical teams and translate complex technology, security, risk, and compliance concepts into actionable business outcomes.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays
- A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth
- Lead Bank is proud to have an inclusive culture committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity in all employment decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected status.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay
Zone 1: $176,400 - $206,168 (SF/Bay Area, NYC, Seattle)
Zone 2: $162,069 - $184,322 (Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Denver, Boston, Washington DC, San Diego, Philadelphia, Portland, Sacramento, Miami)
Zone 3: $147,692 - $172,615 (Other US Metros)
We must ensure no markdown fences, just HTML. Also ensure we didn't include any heading like "About the role" (we used About Lead Bank and Information Security Team). The instruction said use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, etc. But we can use other headings if they reflect content. It said "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests we should use those exact headings when applicable. However we have content about company and team; maybe we should combine into "About the role"? But that heading is for role description. The role description we have separate. The "About Lead Bank" and "Information Security Team" could be considered "About the role"? Not exactly. The instruction says "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It gives examples but not strict requirement to only use those. It says use for section headings (e.g. those). So we can use other headings as long as they are . Probably fine.
But to be safe, we could map:
- About Lead Bank + Information Security Team could be under "About the role"? Actually "About the role" would be role description. But we already have Role Description heading. Maybe we could combine company info into "About the role"? Not ideal.
Better to keep as we have; the instruction didn't forbid other headings. It just gave examples.
We must not include headings with filler. All our headings have content.
Check for any boilerplate we missed: The "What We Offer" includes "Competitive compensation based on experience, geographic location, and role" which we omitted from Benefits but we could include as part of Pay? Actually we have Pay sections with ranges; we could also include that sentence in Pay paragraph. But we omitted it. The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information. So we should include that sentence somewhere. It is under What We Offer before benefits list. It says: "Competitive compensation based on experience, geographic location, and role". That's substantive. We should include it, maybe in Pay section as a preamble.
Add a
under Pay: "Competitive compensation based on experience, geographic location, and role." Then the zone ranges.
Also the What We Offer includes "Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRAPaid parental leaveFlexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidaysA fun and challenging
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What We Offer: includes benefits list and compensation ranges. We'll separate Benefits and Pay sections.
Benefits: bullet list of benefits: Competitive compensation based on experience... Actually that's compensation. Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRAPaid parental leaveFlexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidaysA fun and challenging team environment... Also inclusive culture statement etc. We'll extract substantive benefits.
Pay: we have zone ranges.
Schedule: not mentioned, so omit.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Remove those lines.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the exact text? Probably we can keep the substance but can rephrase? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Means we should not omit details, but we can keep them as is. Likely we should copy the sentences.
We'll produce HTML:
About Lead Bank
Lead is a banking infrastructure platform trusted by the most innovative companies to power complex financial products. We enable fintechs to offer compliant, programmable services like payments, lending, and digital assets at scale. Banking has moved beyond traditional institutions and is now embedded directly into everyday experiences, meaning companies need modern infrastructure that is safe, secure, and operationally sound. Today, Lead is one of the only API-first, developer-focused partner banks with the financial, regulatory, and legal expertise required to help fintechs succeed. We operate offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, and an FDIC-insured bank in Kansas City.
Information Security Team
The Information Security team helps Lead stay nimble enough to move fast without compromising on safety. They own cybersecurity, overseeing detection and response, and building security controls for all data networks, cloud infrastructures, and IT systems. Working closely with the Risk, Compliance, and Audit teams, they ensure Lead meets and stays up to date on all security standards. Scaling the systems that protect Lead and the fintechs we serve requires critical thinking, good judgment, and an ownership mentality. This is a collaborative team of builders who approach problems creatively, constantly iterating to improve the security of our platform.
Role Description
Lead Bank is seeking a Senior Security Technical Governance Program Manager to lead the strategy, execution, and continuous optimization of the bank’s technology governance, compliance, and risk programs. This role will be responsible for ensuring that security controls across the bank’s technology environment, internal operations, and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) ecosystem meet rigorous regulatory requirements, industry standards, and internal risk tolerance. The Senior Technical Governance Program Manager will play a critical role in standardizing security compliance processes, driving continuous monitoring, and embedding automated security controls into everyday operations. This position will partner closely with Security Engineering, Technology, Data, Compliance, and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) teams to modernize control frameworks, maintain constant audit readiness, and safely govern emerging technologies across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage enterprise technology governance, risk, compliance, and control initiatives across Information Security, Technology, Engineering, and Data organizations.
- Lead, mentor, and develop team members, including setting priorities and goals, providing ongoing coaching and feedback, and supporting professional growth and performance.
- Drive enterprise Data Management and Governance initiatives, including data security, data classification, retention, data quality, governance controls, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Lead governance and readiness programs for enterprise Disaster Recovery (DR), including readiness assessments, control reviews, tabletop exercises, recovery testing, lessons learned, and resiliency improvement initiatives.
- Manage Security Compliance programs across Information Security, Technology, and Engineering teams, ensuring alignment with applicable regulatory requirements, industry frameworks, internal policies, and security best practices.
- Manage and oversee the enterprise Security Third-Party Risk Program, including risk assessments, due diligence, ongoing monitoring, control reviews, audits, issue management, and remediation tracking.
- Drive automation of audit and compliance evidence gathering, control monitoring, and governance workflows to improve efficiency, consistency, audit readiness, and control effectiveness.
- Lead coordination of internal and external audits covering technology, cybersecurity, cloud, engineering, infrastructure, and related controls. Manage evidence collection, lead control walkthroughs, audit requests, findings, and remediation activities through closure.
- Support and lead strategic initiatives and special projects including but not limited to emerging technology risk, Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance and risk management, compliance program enhancements, automation, regulatory readiness, and technology control modernization.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen technology governance and compliance through automation, continuous monitoring, risk-based controls, standardized processes, and scalable program improvements.
- Perform all other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- 5–8 years of experience in Technology, Information Security, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Technology Risk, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), or a related discipline.
- Experience managing, mentoring, and developing teams, with demonstrated ability to set priorities, provide feedback, and drive individual and team performance.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional technology governance, risk, compliance, or security programs in high-growth technology, fintech, startup, or similarly fast-paced environments.
- Experience in banking, financial services, or other highly regulated industries preferred.
- Familiarity with AI tools, AI governance, AI risk management, and emerging technology controls.
- Strong understanding of technology governance, cybersecurity frameworks, cloud platforms, infrastructure security, engineering controls, technology risk, enterprise risk management, and compliance practices.
- Experience working with internal and external auditors and managing remediation activities from identification through closure.
- Demonstrated ability to automate, streamline, or modernize compliance, governance, risk, and audit evidence processes.
- Experience developing governance metrics, executive reporting, risk assessments, control frameworks, or compliance dashboards.
- Strong program management, stakeholder management, communication, organizational, analytical, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to operate effectively across technical and non-technical teams and translate complex technology, security, risk, and compliance concepts into actionable business outcomes.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays
- A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth
- Lead Bank is proud to have an inclusive culture committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity in all employment decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected status.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay
Zone 1: $176,400 - $206,168 (SF/Bay Area, NYC, Seattle)
Zone 2: $162,069 - $184,322 (Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Denver, Boston, Washington DC, San Diego, Philadelphia, Portland, Sacramento, Miami)
Zone 3: $147,692 - $172,615 (Other US Metros)
We must ensure no markdown fences, just HTML. Also ensure we didn't include any heading like "About the role" (we used About Lead Bank and Information Security Team). The instruction said use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, etc. But we can use other headings if they reflect content. It said "usefor section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests we should use those exact headings when applicable. However we have content about company and team; maybe we should combine into "About the role"? But that heading is for role description. The role description we have separate. The "About Lead Bank" and "Information Security Team" could be considered "About the role"? Not exactly. The instruction says "use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It gives examples but not strict requirement to only use those. It says use
for section headings (e.g. those). So we can use other headings as long as they are
. Probably fine. But to be safe, we could map: - About Lead Bank + Information Security Team could be under "About the role"? Actually "About the role" would be role description. But we already have Role Description heading. Maybe we could combine company info into "About the role"? Not ideal. Better to keep as we have; the instruction didn't forbid other headings. It just gave examples. We must not include headings with filler. All our headings have content. Check for any boilerplate we missed: The "What We Offer" includes "Competitive compensation based on experience, geographic location, and role" which we omitted from Benefits but we could include as part of Pay? Actually we have Pay sections with ranges; we could also include that sentence in Pay paragraph. But we omitted it. The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information. So we should include that sentence somewhere. It is under What We Offer before benefits list. It says: "Competitive compensation based on experience, geographic location, and role". That's substantive. We should include it, maybe in Pay section as a preamble. Add a
under Pay: "Competitive compensation based on experience, geographic location, and role." Then the zone ranges. Also the What We Offer includes "Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRAPaid parental leaveFlexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidaysA fun and challenging