Adaptive Insights

Adaptive Insights

Principal Program Manager

USA.VA.Reston · Principal

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Machine LearningComplianceStakeholder ManagementProcurementHRISLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • This broader team is responsible for technology governance, compliance, and risk programs.
  • This is a strategic yet hands-on role that combines program ownership, cross-functional influence, and deep risk expertise.

Responsibilities

  • Third-Party Risk Program Ownership: Own and evolve the Cybersecurity third-party security risk strategy, including risk assessment methodology, vendor tiering, control expectations, procedures, continuous monitoring, and reporting
  • Third-Party Risk Assessments: Lead risk assessments for critical and operationally significant third parties (partners, vendors), identifying, tracking, and due diligence, ongoing monitoring, issue management, and exit.
  • Broader Risk Assessment and Analysis: Perform principal-level risk assessment activities beyond third parties - including security exception management, internal control reviews, and cyber risk assessments - applying qualitative and quantitative techniques to translate risk into business impact and inform risk-based decisions.
  • Stakeholder Engagement and Escalation: Partner with Legal, Procurement, Privacy, ERM and business owners to ensure risks are appropriately documented, accepted, mitigated, or escalated
  • Metrics and Reporting: Establish and maintain key risk and performance metrics, dashboards, and Outcome-Driven Metrics (ODMs) that demonstrate program progress, maturity, and effectiveness, and continuously refine initiatives based on data-driven insights and stakeholder feedback.
  • Automation and Innovation: Drive automation of high-volume, repetitive processes and evaluate AI-enabled tooling to increase efficiency, quality, and speed while scaling the program responsibly.
  • Leadership and Continuous Improvement: Lead large-scale, cross-functional initiatives to mature TPRM and risk capabilities, coach and develop team members, contribute to the evolution of risk and program best practices, and support other risk, governance, and program activities as needed.
  • 12+ years experience in GRC, leading GRC initiatives, developing and maintaining GRC frameworks, and ensuring organizational compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
  • Third-Party Risk Program Ownership: Own and evolve the Cybersecurity third-party security risk strategy, including risk assessment methodology, vendor tiering, control expectations, procedures, continuous monitoring, and reporting; mature the program to keep pace with emerging risk domains such as AI/ML vendors and evolving regulatory expectations.
  • Stakeholder Engagement and Escalation: Partner with Legal, Procurement, Privacy, ERM and business owners to ensure risks are appropriately documented, accepted, mitigated, or escalated; communicate complex vendor and risk landscapes and prioritization decisions clearly to senior leadership.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience implementing and managing modern GRC tools (e.g., ServiceNow GRC, OneTrust, Archer, LogicGate) to automate evidence collection and continuous control monitoring.
  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Information Security, Management Information Systems (MIS), or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Substantial hands-on experience with GRC, TPRM, security-ratings, questionnaire-automation, and workflow-orchestration platforms.
  • Expert-level written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex risk considerations for both technical and non-technical audiences and to present prioritization decisions to senior leadership.
  • We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role).

Nice to have

  • Advanced certifications preferred, such as CTPRP, CRISC, CISM, CISA, CISSP.
  • Preferred: some hands-on automation experience - such as scripting or low-code / no-code workflow tools (e.g., n8n) - used to streamline risk assessments, evidence collection, or reporting.

Skills

  • Your work days are brighter here.

Compensation

  • $170,600 USD - $255,800 USD
  • $154,300 USD - $274,100 USD
  • In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.
  • The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.

Benefits

  • As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants.
  • For more information regarding Workday's comprehensive benefits, please click here.
  • Our Approach to Flexible Work
  • This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together.
  • Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

Company info

  • The Cybersecurity Risk team is responsible for cybersecurity risk assessments, security exception management, TPRM, and partner eco-system security.

Equal opportunity

  • Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
  • If you require assistance or an accommodation at any point, please email accommodations@workday.com.
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