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Governance, risk, and compliance roles in California: technology, financial services, healthcare, entertainment, and the AI labs defining the field.
Open GRC roles in California (67)
AI Governance Lead
AI Strategy & Operations Advisor
Compliance Governance & Oversight Lead
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Manager
Senior Privacy Counsel
Policy Design Manager, Age-Appropriate Design
Senior GRC Analyst
Governance, Risk, and Compliance Analyst
Senior GRC Lead
Security GRC Manager: Customer Trust Enablement
Senior Workforce Governance Program Manager
Senior Compliance Engineer
Senior Model Risk Manager - AI/ML
Director, Compliance Data Science & AI
Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy
Security Controls Assurance Lead
Internal Audit Manager
Head of Insurance and Risk Management
Associate General Counsel, Product and Privacy
Director and Associate General Counsel, Compliance
Governance Risk and Compliance
Senior Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) Analyst
Engineering Manager, GRC Platform
Staff+ Software Engineer, GRC Platform
Research Scientist, Frontier Risk Evaluations
Risk Operations
Senior Engineering Manager, Privacy Security
Supply Chain Compliance Program Manager
Staff+ Security Engineer, Risk Engineering
Sr. Staff Security Assurance Engineer
Internal Audit Lead, Stablecoins & Digital Assets
Data Governance Engineer
Senior HR Compliance Manager
Privacy and Security Counsel
Senior Privacy Software Engineer
Staff Product Manager, Risk Product Experience
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Responsible AI– Applied Research Science
Staff Technical Program Manager, SOX Compliance
Senior Software Engineer - Fraud
Principal Compliance Engineer
Senior Compliance Automation Engineer
Counsel, Product & Regulatory - Payments & AML
Staff Software Engineer - Fraud
Data Scientist, Risk
Sr Data Scientist, Risk Strategy
Fraud and Abuse Operations Analyst
Senior Fraud Research Analyst
Staff Product Manager, Risk Modeling
Machine Learning Engineer - (Payment Risk/Fraud) - Embedded Insights
Senior Data Scientist - (Payment Risk/Fraud) Embedded Insights
Product Manager, Fraud Data
Staff Product Manager, Risk Platform
Director of Quality Assurance
Senior Counsel, Sanctions and Trade Compliance
Strategic Operations Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations
Analytics & Automation Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations
Technical Lead Manager, Data Engineering, Trust & Safety
Agentic Risk Analyst
Device Safety & Risk Operations Specialist, User Safety & Risk Operations
Senior Product Manager, Risk Platform
Chief Audit Officer
GRC Engineer
Product Marketing Manager, Privacy and Video Security
Head of Product, Assurance
Senior Director, CISO Healthcare West
Senior Manager, Financial Risk Management
Associate Director, Data Governance
The California GRC market
California is the epicenter of AI governance hiring. The state pairs the world’s leading AI labs and platform companies with a deep bench of banks, insurers, health systems, and entertainment giants, all of which now need governance, risk, and compliance leaders who understand machine learning. From San Francisco and Silicon Valley to Los Angeles and San Diego, demand spans responsible AI, model risk, privacy under CCPA and CPRA, and traditional GRC. If a role is defining how AI gets governed, odds are it was written in California.
Key sectors: technology, financial services, healthcare, entertainment, and the AI labs defining the field. On the board now: 67 local and 0 remote-eligible roles.
BLS put the 2024 median at $78,420. In 2026, market trackers show averages from roughly $99,000 to $120,000, with the top quartile above $160,000. Financial centers and senior governance roles sit at the top of that range.
Sources: BLS, 2024 median
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