Hiring: Security Analyst, Third-Party Ecosystem Risk Management Company: Plaid Location: New York City Metropolitan Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:14:35 Target Skills & Keywords : Encryption, Risk Management, SOC 2 About the job Experience: •4+ years of experience in vendor risk management Required Skills: •Run Vendor Security Risk Assessments: Triage inbound vendor requests, run security reviews scaled to risk tier, rate the risk, and document findings and exceptions. Your assessments keep Plaid from inheriting a vendor’s security gaps and give Procurement, Privacy, and Legal a clear risk signal before contracts are signed. •Vet Customer and Partner Security Posture: Review the security practices of customers and partners onboarding to the platform, applying the same standards you use for vendors. Your reviews make sure who connects to Plaid meets the bar before they touch data—protecting consumers and the ecosystem. •Keep the Third-Party Risk Lifecycle Current: Maintain risk tiering, drive reassessments on cadence, chase remediation to closure, and keep the risk register accurate. Your follow-through keeps third-party risk a live, trustworthy picture rather than a point-in-time checkbox. •Mature the Program: Improve questionnaires, tiering criteria, intake, runbooks, and tooling as review volume grows—bringing patterns from third-party risk programs you’ve matured before. Your work moves the function from ad hoc toward fast, consistent, and scalable. •Report on Ecosystem Risk: Track assessment cycle times, backlog, open exceptions, and reassessment coverage, and report program health to stakeholders. Your reporting gives leadership real visibility into where third-party risk concentrates. •Scale Through AI and Tooling: Build and scale AI-assisted workflows for assessment review, questionnaire analysis, and reporting—and share what works. Your approach sets how the team uses AI to handle more reviews without adding headcount. Qualifications: •Operational familiarity with the third-party risk lifecycle: intake, tiering, exceptions and risk acceptance, remediation tracking, and periodic reassessment. •Solid functional working knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, and common control domains (access control, encryption, incident response, BC/DR). •Demonstrated capacity to read a control environment and tell a real gap from an acceptable compensating control. •Track record running assessments at volume without dropping rigor. •Strong analytical and documentation skills: clear findings, clean tracking, and defensible risk decisions others can follow. •Clear written and verbal communication—able to explain a security risk to Procurement, Legal, or a customer without overstating or hand-waving. •Comfortable working across Security, Legal, Procurement, and GTM as the third-party risk point of contact. Compensation: •$118,680 - $175,800 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!