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San Francisco, California, United States
Source: Zania careers · View original posting
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Why Zania
Every enterprise spends millions of dollars on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). It's one of the most critical, yet universally painful, parts of running a business. For decades, this industry has been dominated by legacy systems with notoriously low NPS scores, making it totally ripe for disruption.
Zania is building agentic AI for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) to solve this massive problem. We are on a rocketship trajectory, creating intelligent agents that automate and augment the most complex risk and compliance workflows. We have found exceptional product-market fit and are scaling our team very quickly. Some reasons to join Zania are:
Our customers are the most notable enterprises in the world, including FAANG, Big 4 firms, and a portfolio of top customers.
Funded by a leading Tier 1 venture capital fund. Series A led by NEA, with Anthropic and Menlo Ventures. $18M raised to build a generational company.
Zania is hiring the best. Our team includes AI and Security leaders from Airbnb, Microsoft, Bain & Company, Deloitte, PwC, Brex, and Instacart.
We have seen 10x ARR growth in the last year and are rapidly expanding.
Competitive Compensation & Equity.
As Director of Engineering, you will lead the teams building the agents that do real GRC work for the world's most demanding enterprises. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will run day-to-day engineering execution, grow and develop engineers and managers, and stay close enough to the code to make the hard architectural calls.
Our agents review evidence, answer security questionnaires, assess vendors, and map controls across frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST, and customers rely on them to be correct and explainable. You will make sure we ship fast without compromising the accuracy, security, and reliability that enterprise GRC demands. You will partner closely with the Head of Engineering, the founders, product, and our GRC experts.
You are a strong engineer who can read a PR, spot an architectural mistake, and fix it yourself.
You have shipped LLM, agentic, or ML systems to production and understand evaluation, context management, and the difference between a demo and a production system.
You have grown engineering teams through a Series A/B and developed engineers into leaders.
You measure engineering health by what's in production and know how to remove process that slows teams down.
You have built in a domain where getting it right matters, such as security, compliance, fintech, or health.
Compensation
Competitive salary + significant equity
Flexible PTO
Zania is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
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