Compliance Operations Lead

ABOUT GOVSIGNALS

We are shaping the future of government contracting with breakthrough AI‑driven solutions. We are disrupting a multi‑billion dollar industry and enabling private‑sector technologies to secure government contracts faster than ever, strengthening national security and driving economic growth.

GovSignals has built the most advanced government‑contracting AI platform available. From small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, our platform multiplies the opportunities contractors can pursue and empowers them to deliver fully compliant, winning proposals in hours instead of months. As one of the largest aggregators of U.S. government data, we set trends rather than follow them.

THE ROLE

In government contracting, compliance is a moat. FedRAMP High, IL5, CMMC Level 2, SOC 2—these are the gates that decide which platforms get to serve the DoD, the Intelligence Community, and the largest agencies in the federal government. We need a Compliance Operations Lead who treats that gate as offense, not paperwork.

This is not a role where you write policy docs, file them in a binder, and chase tickets through a GRC tool. You will own GovSignals' entire security and compliance posture end‑to‑end—architecting the program, automating the evidence, partnering directly with engineering, and standing in front of customers and auditors as the face of our trust story. You'll move at product speed. When a control fails or an auditor flags an exception, you fix it because it's yours.

Compliance at GovSignals is a product. It ships, it scales, and it has to keep up with an aggressive engineering cadence. We want someone who automates evidence collection in CI/CD instead of chasing screenshots. Someone who treats every customer security review as a sales asset, not a tax. Someone who has done this before at a high‑growth defense or dual‑use startup—and knows the difference between checking the box and building something defensible.

This role reports directly into the f...