Manager, Security Controls & Compliance

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined.

In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.

We’re looking for a Security Controls & Compliance Manager to own the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of our security control and compliance framework.

This role sits at the intersection of security, IT, and business systems, ensuring that controls are not only well-designed, but consistently executed, evidenced, and audit-ready.

You will work closely with internal teams across infrastructure, data, legal, and security to ensure we can continuously demonstrate compliance across frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, C5, and emerging standards like ISO 42001.

This is a hands-on role with management responsibility, suited to someone who enjoys turning complex operational environments into clear, measurable, and auditable systems.

What you’ll do

• Own and operate Algolia’s security compliance programmes (SOC 2, ISO 27001, C5, ISO 42001)
• Maintain and evolve a unified control framework mapped across multiple standards
• Manage the full audit lifecycle, including preparation, coordination, and remediation
• Design and run a risk-based internal audit programme
• Ensure controls are continuously evidenced and audit-ready, leveraging automation wherever possible
• Own and optimise compliance tooling (e.g. Vanta), ensuring it accurately reflects operational reality
• Translate operational signals (e.g. from Jira, endpoint tooling, and internal systems) into reliable control evidence
• Oversee vendor assurance processes, including due diligence and ongoing monitoring
• Track and report on control effectiveness, risks, and remediation progress
• Manage and develop a small team of compliance and assurance analysts

How you’ll work

• Partner with infrastructure, IT, and data teams to ensure controls are implemented and operating effectively
• Collaborate with security and engineering teams to align control requirements with technical capabilities
• Work closely with legal and procurement on vendor assurance and compliance obligations
• Act as a trusted point of contact for auditors and internal stakeholders

What we’re looking for

• Experience managing security compliance programmes such as C5, SOC 2 and ISO 27001
• Strong understanding of security controls and how they operate in real-world environments
• Experience working with compliance/GRC tooling (e.g. Vanta, or similar)
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams
• Ability to translate operational processes and technical signals into clear, auditable evidence
• Experience coordinating audits and working with external auditors
• Strong organisational skills with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset

Nice to have

• Experience with additional frameworks such as ISO 42001
• Familiarity with SaaS environments and cloud-native tooling
• Exposure to vendor risk management programmes
• Experience building or improving compliance processes in a scaling organisation

Why this role matters

This role is key to ensuring that Algolia’s security controls are not just defined, but consistently operating and provable. You’ll help build a system where compliance is continuous, efficient, and aligned with how the business actually runs.

FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:

Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when. 

We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES:

• GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment.
• TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership.
• CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
• CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
• HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.

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READY TO APPLY?

If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!