Vanta

Vanta—the proven leader in automated compliance helping startups…

Hiring — 2 openYC-W18B2B -> SecurityGrowth

What Vanta does

About Vanta Vanta (YC W18) is the leading automated compliance and trust management platform designed to simplify and centralize compliance and security workflows for organizations of all sizes. Why YC Startups Need Vanta As a YC company, proving your security compliance is crucial for hitting new milestones—from finding product market fit, to selling to bigger customers. We would know, we’ve been there—and we’ve helped over 10,000 customers do just that! Vanta's all-in-one solution, combined with expert service partners, helps you quickly and painlessly achieve and maintain compliance with top frameworks—like SOC 2 and ISO 27001—and build a strong security foundation, so you can close bigger deals and scale faster. Learn more at vanta.com. YC Companies get Exclusive Discounts on Vanta’s packages: Vanta’s packages for startups are designed to make security and compliance easier, faster, and more cost-effective. Whether you’re closing your first deal or gearing up for growth, our all-in-one solution provides the tools necessary to become compliant quickly, demonstrate your security posture, and build a strong security foundation. Why Vanta? Built for startups: Vanta knows startups. We went through YC in 2018 and have since helped thousands of startups, including YC companies Supabase (YC S20), Fern (YC W23), and Newfront (YC W18) achieve and maintain compliance quickly. Startups like Charityvest (YC S20), BreachRX, and Flo Health have gone from zero to SOC 2 Type I or ISO 27001 certification in 10 days or less with Vanta. Future-proof, feature-rich, automated platform: Vanta’s modular platform is built for the needs of today and tomorrow, including: * 35+ frameworks spanning security, privacy, industry, geographic, and custom frameworks * 375+ integrations that automate evidence collection for these frameworks * 1,200+ automated, hourly tests to ensure real, continuous security—not just at audit time, but all the time * Pre-built policy templates, lightweight agent for security checks, background checks, cyber insurance, cookie consent management, auditor portal, user access reviews, security awareness training, risk assessments, vendor security reviews, managing vulnerabilities, and more * Tailored support for early-stage companies: Vanta offers internal, no-cost Customer Success and GRC (compliance) experts, robust technical support, detailed documentation, and a 24/7 chatbot for frequently asked questions. * (Optional) Purchase Vanta with auditors experienced in your framework and the Vanta platform, or choose from a range of MSP/consulting partners for additional services like penetration tests and virtual CISO support—some at no cost. We don’t force vendor lock-in. * Transparent pricing and promises: Vanta strives to do what it says on the tin: we believe in setting and meeting customer expectations. We offer flexible contracts, fair and transparent pricing, and publish our support metrics. We prefer to focus on helping customers succeed and let them explain why they chose us over others—check out our G2 reviews and customer case studies! Proven market leader and well-funded: Vanta was founded in 2018 and has raised $350M with over 700 employees. We’ve guided over 10,000 customers through their first or multiple audit cycles for various frameworks. These customer learnings and our funding help drive a fast pace of product development to delight customers and ensure Vanta will be there for you in the future. Interested in seeing why Upflow (YC W20), Tailor (YC S22), and hundreds of other YC companies trust Vanta to automate compliance so they can focus on scaling? Reach out to our team at yc@vanta.com to get started!

2 open roles

Senior Product Designer
Remote US / Remote (US)Full-time3+ years$150K - $170KVisa: US citizen/visa only
What the role involves

Vanta is on a mission to secure the internet and protect consumer data. Before Vanta, companies were stuck in a perpetual cycle of having to make the feature vs compliance and security tradeoff. They had to engage with costly auditors that took hundreds of our of valuable company-building time, spending hours aggregating data instead of working on making their software better.  Our challenge is to enable B2B companies to remain continuously secure and compliant with an ever decreasing amount of effort. That means helping our customers understand what good security looks like, helping them become secure as their business changes, and helping them prove their compliance and security so that they can grow their business. Most importantly, it means designing a product that will change the incentives to make security a no-brainer investment for all companies. You will be responsible for the platform that helps customers build and manage automations that help them stay secure and compliant.  At Vanta, you'll have the opportunity to impact our product and design strategy and spawn entirely new projects that are design-driven. We’re looking for a collaborative teammate capable of delivering and taking feedback. If you are a passionate experienced designer who finds excitement from the possibility of digging deep into customer needs, then this might be the role for you.   What you’ll do as a Product Designer at Vanta: Have 6+ years of experience as a product designer shipping products and delivering customer value Have a passion for tackling complex user problems and shaping them into powerful/simple outcomes. Have strong visual, UI and interaction skills Enjoy spending time understanding users and their problems Have effective written and verbal communication skills Have prior experience in one of the following areas:   How to be successful in this role, you: Dig deep to understand our customers, their challenges, and opportunities to make them more successful Directly contribute to business outcomes through your work Own your design process end to end Contribute to the overall strategy and decision making for Vanta’s product direction Create, collaborate, and iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals Use and evolve our internal design system Work closely with engineers and other partners to ensure a high-quality implementation Help with hiring and establishing a design culture within Vanta   What you can expect as a Vantan: Industry-Competitive Salary and Equity 100% covered Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits with Dependents Coverage 16 Weeks Fully Paid Parental Leave for All New Parents (Moms, Dads, Adoptive, Foster) Health & Wellness Stipend Remote Workspace Stipend 401(k) Matching Plan Flexible Work Hours and Location Open & Encouraged PTO Policy 9 Company Paid Holidays Free Memberships to Online Wellness Platforms (One Medical, Ginger, Headspace, and more!)  Virtual Team Building Activities, Lunch and Learns, and other Company-Wide Events Offices in SF and NYC with Hubs of Vantans forming across the US, including but not limited to, Seattle, Austin, Indianapolis, LA, Boston, and more!  To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. The base pay range for this position is $150,000 - $170,000. This role may also be eligible for commissions/bonus, equity, medical benefits, 401(k) plan, and other company perk programs. At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclu

Senior Software Engineer
Remote US / Remote (US)Full-time6+ years$163K - $223KVisa: US citizen/visa only
What the role involves

Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale. Vanta’s mission is to secure the internet and protect consumer data. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Our product integrates deeply with the services that present security risk to a company, pulls and analyzes data from those sources, and surfaces potential security threats to our customers in real time with guidance to remediate them. Vanta’s team and technology surface are growing quickly, and it’s essential that we invest in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale with our business. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to enable our product and infrastructure to scale with our business, driving complex projects across our technical stack, and mentoring our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth. Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We’d love for you to join us! What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta: Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to deliver significant impact to our business Set direction for critical technical surface areas, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React, Node.js, Golang) Work with talented and kind engineers to make a significant impact on our customer base, enabling them to improve their security and prove it Contribute to building Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow How to be successful in this role: Have at least 5 years of industry experience Have played technical leadership roles for teams or complex projects Have previous startup experience, or worked in an environment that prioritizes a bias for action Have previous experience working on greenfield projects Have an interest in learning about security or prior experience in the space What you can expect as a Vantan: Industry-Competitive Salary and Equity 100% covered Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits with Dependents Coverage 16 Weeks Fully Paid Parental Leave for All New Parents (Moms, Dads, Adoptive, Foster) Health & Wellness Stipend Remote Workspace Stipend 401(k) Matching Plan Flexible Work Hours and Location Open & Encouraged PTO Policy 9 Company Paid Holidays Free Memberships to Online Wellness Platforms (One Medical, Ginger, Headspace, and more!)  Virtual Team Building Activities, Lunch and Learns, and other Company-Wide Events Offices in SF and NYC with Hubs of Vantans forming across the US, including but not limited to, Seattle, Austin, Indianapolis, LA, Boston, and more!  To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below. We hire for this position at multiple levels internally and the base pay range for this position is $163,000 - $223,000. This role may also be eligible for commissions/bonus, equity, medical b

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