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Lead product strategy and roadmap for core AI foundations: agent harness and AI quality/evaluation stack. Build golden datasets, automated evaluators, observability, and self-serve tooling to improve trust, reliability, cost, latency, and safety across Vanta's AI products, partnering with engineering, product, and design teams to drive adoption.

As a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer at Vanta, you will lead complex projects, set technical direction, design and develop new functionalities, and contribute to the engineering culture while mentoring other engineers.

Partner with Upmarket AE leadership to design and deliver enterprise sales enablement programs, build playbooks and account planning tools, embed methodologies like MEDDPICC, and use data from Gong and Salesforce to measure impact on ramp, quota attainment, and pipeline. Collaborate cross-functionally to provide timely content and continuously assess field needs to improve AE effectiveness.

Design and build scalable shared platform systems and libraries used across product teams, define APIs and standards, influence cross-team architecture, perform code reviews, and maintain documentation to improve developer experience and platform reliability.

Lead development of Vanta's business analytics function: build scalable product data assets, define measurement frameworks, use AI-assisted analytics, partner with cross-functional teams, and deliver executive-level recommendations to drive product and business decisions.

Lead Vanta's integrated external and internal communications program; craft corporate narratives and thought leadership around AI, security, and trust; manage PR agency relationships; amplify brand through earned media, events, and data-driven storytelling; partner cross-functionally to align messaging and scale efforts using AI.

Lead and grow a systems engineering team owning identity, device, and ITSM platforms. Deliver joiner/mover/leaver automation in Okta Workflows, device assurance for macOS/Windows, rationalize ITSM, govern SaaS procurement and the AI tooling stack, and partner with Security, GRC, Finance, and Engineering to enable safe self-service.

Lead a small senior team to build and operate Vanta's internal AI platform: identity and access for AI tools, cost attribution and controls, MCP lifecycle and governance, deployment golden-paths, enablement and registries, and a cross-functional charter to coordinate safe, cost-effective AI adoption across the company.

Build and lead Vanta's internal communications function: define strategy, channels, and cadence; own company-wide moments (all-hands, major announcements); advise leadership; partner with People, Marketing, and stakeholders; measure impact and iterate; protect culture and morale as the company scales.

Own month-end general ledger tasks including journal entries, reconciliations, and analyses for cash, prepaids, fixed assets, AP, leases, investments, payroll, and intercompany. Partner with FP&A and cross-functional teams, support close and audits, perform variance/flux analyses using data analytics and AI tools, and lead process improvements and automation to strengthen controls and scalability.