Avanti Recruitment
Information Security & Compliance Lead
Job Description
Salary: £65,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong practical experience across information security, governance, risk and compliance, with significant hands-on ISO 27001 experience.
- Experience managing a multi-framework compliance environment, including at least one additional framework or standard such as ISO 27701, ISO 42001, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials, NIS2 or DORA.
- Experience within SaaS, technology or another relevant product-led environment.
- A track record of making compliance simpler and more accessible to non-specialists.
- A pragmatic approach to governance, avoiding unnecessary process and bureaucracy.
- Confidence working with senior stakeholders and teams outside compliance.
- An understanding of how good compliance and governance can create wider business and customer value.
- Working knowledge of the UK and EU regulatory landscape.
- Experience with AI governance or ISO 42001 would be a major advantage.
- Previous exposure to AI governance, an understanding of the differences from traditional information security, or a genuine interest in developing knowledge in this area.
- Own and continually improve our multi-framework compliance programme.
- Lead internal and external audit cycles.
- Maintain the risk register, Statement of Applicability and supporting compliance documentation.
- Simplify internal governance processes and embed them into everyday ways of working.
- Become one of our platforms most knowledgeable internal users and feed practical compliance experience back into the Product team.
- Work with Customer Success and Professional Services to turn internal best practice into approaches customers can use.
- Show customers and prospects what effective modern governance looks like in practice.
- Advise senior leadership on governance, risk and compliance.
- Keep up with emerging standards and regulatory developments.
- Represent our business through customer conversations, conferences, LinkedIn, podcasts, industry reports and other thought-leadership activity.
- AI
- Support
- Security
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We are a fast-growing, well-invested B2B SaaS company specialising in business resilience and modern compliance across information security, data privacy and AI governance. Our global platform is used by more than 65,000 people and helps organisations manage standards and regulations including ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, NIS2 and other increasingly complex governance requirements. This full-time, permanent role sits within our Product team and is fully remote within the UK. We offer 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with service, along with a NEST pension, Perkbox benefits, development and training support, and company events with opportunities to collaborate with the wider team. We want compliance to be light-touch, accessible and commercially valuable, and this role gives you the opportunity to shape how modern governance is done while influencing a SaaS product used globally.
last updated 36 week of 2026
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