Sr. Staff Risk Management Analyst in New York at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Sr. Staff Risk Management Analyst based in the United States.

This is a senior leadership opportunity to build and operate an enterprise risk management program within a fast-growing, technology-driven healthcare environment.
You will establish the frameworks, processes, and reporting that enable leaders to understand and act on business risk.
The role spans enterprise risk, security governance, compliance, resilience, awareness, insurance, and the broader security program portfolio.
You will work directly with executives and governing committees, translating complex risks into clear insights that support business decisions.
As an early dedicated owner of the function, you will have significant autonomy to design programs, establish accountability, and introduce scalable processes.
The environment is collaborative and relatively flat, with a strong emphasis on ownership, initiative, automation, and continuous improvement.
This is an opportunity to shape a maturing GRC organization while helping a regulated healthcare business scale responsibly.

• Own and mature the enterprise risk management program, maintaining an enterprise-wide risk register that is distinct from the cyber risk register.
• Develop, refine, and operationalize the enterprise risk appetite statement, ensuring it informs business decisions and priority-setting.
• Establish and operate the ERM policy and enterprise risk assessment methodology, conducting assessments across the organization and maintaining accountability among designated risk owners.
• Present enterprise risk posture, emerging risks, and mitigation progress to executives and the Enterprise Risk Committee.
• Produce governance and risk-assessment evidence supporting security and compliance frameworks, including SOC 2, HITRUST, HIPAA, NIST CSF 2.0, and future control frameworks.
• Govern reporting for the security program portfolio, tracking commitments, dependencies, priority initiatives, delivery risks, and progress against strategic objectives.
• Maintain the multi-year security risk-reduction roadmap and provide regular visibility into progress, dependencies, and areas of concern.
• Own the security organization’s OKRs from definition through measurement, reporting, and follow-up.
• Track critical dependencies and drive priority initiatives through completion, influencing stakeholders across teams without direct authority.
• Build and manage the security awareness program, establishing sustainable processes and recurring communications.
• Manage insurance-related responsibilities, including property and casualty renewals, claims, certificates of insurance, carrier audits, and insurance requirements in customer contracts.
• Extend second-line risk coverage into areas such as pharmacy, financial, and clinical risk in partnership with relevant domain owners.
• Partner with third-party risk and business resilience stakeholders to ensure vendor, concentration, and resilience risks are appropriately represented in the enterprise risk view.
• Automate recurring activities across risk-register maintenance, assessment intake, evidence collection, and reporting to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Support first-line teams during cybersecurity compliance audits and contribute to the continued development of the broader GRC program.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen governance, improve risk visibility, and enable the organization to move quickly while maintaining appropriate controls.

• 10+ years of experience in information security, risk management, governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated ownership of a GRC or enterprise risk program, including risk registers, policies, assessment methodologies, and governance processes.
• Hands-on experience conducting risk and control self-assessments (RCSA) or a comparable enterprise risk assessment methodology.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining a multi-year risk-reduction roadmap and reporting progress against strategic objectives.
• Experience preparing and presenting risk reports and recommendations to executive leadership and a board, risk committee, or equivalent governing body.
• Demonstrated ability to establish accountability and drive commitments across teams without relying on direct reporting authority.
• Experience working with security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, HITRUST, HIPAA, NIST CSF, or comparable control frameworks.
• Experience serving as the first dedicated full-time owner of a function, operating independently without an established team or dedicated budget structure.
• Strong understanding of enterprise risk, security governance, compliance, controls, and business risk management.
• Excellent executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex risk information into concise, actionable business insights.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and program management capabilities, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• High degree of autonomy, ownership, and initiative, particularly in ambiguous or evolving environments.
• A continuous-improvement mindset and a demonstrated preference for automating repeatable processes wherever practical.
• Preferred: CRISC, CISA, CISSP, or an equivalent professional certification.
• Preferred: Experience in healthcare or other environments involving highly sensitive or regulated data.
• Preferred: Experience building AI or agentic AI systems to automate governance intake, evidence gathering, reporting, or related GRC activities.
• Preferred: Direct involvement in SOC 2, HITRUST, or HIPAA assurance cycles.
• Preferred: Experience developing a security awareness program from the ground up.
• Preferred: Experience implementing, owning, or administering a GRC platform.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA).
• Flexible paid time off (PTO).
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Life insurance.
• Pet insurance.
• Additional benefits and support designed to promote employee well-being.
• Opportunity to work in a relatively flat organization with significant autonomy and ownership.
• Collaborative environment that encourages employees to bring forward ideas and drive meaningful initiatives.
• Broad exposure to enterprise risk, security, compliance, and business operations within a growing healthcare technology environment.
• Opportunity to build and shape a function with expanding organizational scope.