Principal – Public Sector Compliance Program Manager

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and lead Tines' compliance program for federal and public sectors across U.S. federal, DoD, and SLED environments.

• Establish and implement the program's roadmap, governance framework, and operational cadence, ensuring stakeholder alignment and progress towards key milestones.

• Convert regulatory, security, contractual, and customer mandates into clear, actionable workstreams across Security, GRC, Engineering, Product, IT, Legal, Sales, and partner teams.

• Collaborate with Security and Engineering to ensure compliance requirements align with system architecture, environment design, control implementation, boundary definition, inheritance models, and shared responsibility frameworks.

• Act as a strategic ally to Legal, Sales, Security, and GRC, assisting in navigating complex compliance issues while ensuring coherence between technical execution, contractual obligations, and go-to-market strategies.

• Proactively identify and manage program-level risks, gaps, dependencies, and trade-offs, providing clear, actionable recommendations for escalation.

• Leverage knowledge of the broader public sector landscape, including DFARS, GSA schedules, agency-specific requirements, and flowdown obligations, to connect these needs with compliance, product, and commercial decisions.

• Remain updated on changes in federal and public sector regulatory, security, and procurement requirements, translating new developments into practical guidance for internal teams.

• Work closely with Tines' public sector legal team, which offers expertise in legal interpretation, contractual obligations, procurement requirements, and regulatory positioning, ensuring these factors are integrated into program implementation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive, hands-on experience managing federal and public sector compliance programs and enhancing or scaling programs across various frameworks.

• Strong familiarity with FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, CMMC, DoD Impact Levels (IL4/IL5), FISMA, CJIS, and stateRAMP, along with a solid understanding of their practical applications.

• Experience in translating compliance requirements into tangible architecture, control implementations, documentation, and operational processes, including system boundary definitions, inheritance models, and shared responsibility considerations.

• In-depth understanding of how public sector requirements integrate with technical architecture, security controls, legal commitments, customer expectations, and commercial limitations.

• Familiarity with the broader public sector regulatory and procurement landscape, including knowledge of DFARS, GSA schedules, agency procurement processes, and customer-specific flowdown requirements.

• Ability to comprehend how legal, regulatory, contractual, and security requirements traverse public sector environments, with a knack for identifying potential issues early and collaborating effectively with Legal and other stakeholders.

• Proven capability to operate with a comprehensive, systems-level viewpoint, ensuring decisions are scalable across frameworks and use cases.

• Demonstrated success in leading intricate, cross-functional initiatives across Security, GRC, Engineering, Product, Legal, and Sales.

• Exceptional program leadership abilities, encompassing roadmap creation, dependency management, risk identification, prioritization, and communication with executives.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity