📋 Job Overview
At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections.
🏢 About Playlist
The GRC team at Playlist owns governance, risk, third-party risk, and compliance across a portfolio that spans Mindbody, ClassPass, Booker, Kite, and EGYM, with more brands coming as the company grows. We operate without a playbook, building programs, frameworks, and control architecture in an environment that's complex, not just big. The team works closely with Engineering, Legal, Finance, and product teams to make compliance real rather than ceremonial. If you want to do meaningful work on hard problems with people who take both rigor and pragmatism seriously, we'd love to meet you.
🎯 The Role
As a Senior GRC Engineer, you'll own the technical spine of how Playlist manages its control environment. That means designing the architecture that lets the team work across multiple compliance frameworks without duplicating effort at every audit, and making sure control design, evidence requirements, and implementation keep pace with regulatory change and business growth.
✅ Key Responsibilities
- Design and build framework crosswalks and control mappings across PCI DSS, SOC 1 Type II, ISO 27001, HITRUST, and NIST CSF/800-53, using languages such as OSCAL as the translation layer to preserve framework-specific requirements while reducing duplicate audit burden
- Own the Master Control List end-to-end, including control nomenclature, relational database architecture, evidence linkages, and the operational model for ongoing maintenance across Playlist's multi-brand footprint
- Manage the full lifecycle of controls, evidence requirements, and implementation as new standards are adopted, requirements change, or acquired entities are brought into scope
- Drive evidence automation in GRC tooling, building collection workflows that scale without turning every audit season into a manual sprint
- Partner with Security Engineering, Legal, and Finance to validate that control design reflects how the business operates, translating compliance requirements into implementation guidance that engineering teams can act on
- Design, build and maintain AI-powered GRC tooling, multi-agent pipelines for risk quantification, evidence automation, vendor risk assessment, and compliance monitoring using cloud native tools and APIs, so the team's analytical and operational capacity scales without scaling headcount
- Identify rationalization opportunities across frameworks, so adding a new standard to the portfolio means incremental work, not starting from scratch
📌 Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in security engineering, GRC, or compliance engineering, with direct hands-on work across multiple regulatory frameworks
- Deep working knowledge of PCI DSS, SOC 1 or SOC 2, HITRUST, and at least one of ISO 27001 or NIST CSF/800-53
- Experience designing or maintaining control frameworks, crosswalks, or unified control architectures across multiple compliance standards
- Hands-on experience managing evidence requirements and control implementation, not just documentation
- Proficiency with compliance automation tooling (Optro, Drata, Vanta, Hyperproof, Anecdotes, or similar)
- Ability to translate technical control design into clear implementation guidance for engineering and product teams
- Experience building or operating agentic AI workflows (LLM-based pipelines, multi-agent systems, RAG architectures) in a production or near-production context
⭐ Desirable Experience
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, S3, Aurora/RDS) for building and maintaining compliance automation infrastructure
- Experience supporting external audits or assessments as a primary technical contact
- Exposure to multi-brand or post-acquisition control harmonization
- Certifications such as CISA, CISSP, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, CCSFP (HITRUST), or PCI ISA
- Experience in a SaaS or consumer marketplace environment
🎁 Benefits
The base salary range for this position in the United States is $150,000 to $170,000. The total compensation package for this position may also include a performance bonus, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We highly value diversity at our company and encourage people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other protected characteristics.
