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Compliance automation startups hiring now

The compliance automation startups hiring the most right now are Vanta, OneTrust and Highwire. 40% of their open roles are in sales and gtm. 33% of these companies hire mostly remote. Most are based in San Francisco, Paris and London. Every role here comes from the company’s own careers page and is re-checked daily.

40%

of roles in sales and gtm

15%

of roles in engineering

10%

of roles in ai and ml

7%

of roles in product and design

3%

of roles in operations

Companies

Who is hiring

Vanta

Vanta

San Francisco, US · Series D · YC W18

Vanta provides an AI-powered Trust Management Platform that automates compliance, security, and risk management for businesses. It helps companies achieve and maintain compliance with various frameworks, streamlining the audit process.

81 open roles64% remote

OneTrust

OneTrust

Atlanta, US · Series C

OneTrust provides the AI-Ready Governance Platform that unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows. The platform helps organizations govern AI, protect privacy, and reduce data risk with global compliance at scale.

81 open roles33% remote

Highwire

Highwire

Burlington, US

Highwire is the Contractor Success platform for owners, general contractors, and facilities managers. The platform helps ensure contractors deliver great work by dynamically mitigating safety, financial, quality, and sustainability risks throughout every project lifecycle.

61 open roles43% remote

Globalization Partners

Globalization Partners

Remote First Company, US · Private Equity

G-P Gia is an AI-powered global HR agent that provides instant, expert-reviewed guidance on employment law and HR compliance across 50 countries and all US states.

32 open roles100% remote

Sprinto

Sprinto

San Francisco, US · Series B

Sprinto is an Autonomous Trust Platform that centralizes trust requirements across security frameworks, vendors, and customers.

27 open roles85% remote

Drata

Drata

San Diego, US · Series C

Drata provides a trust management platform that automates security compliance workflows, including continuous control monitoring and evidence collection for frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. The platform is powered by agentic AI to interpret controls, risk, and assurance signals, enabling always-on audit readiness and reducing manual work.

27 open roles48% remote

Numeral

Numeral

San Francisco, US · Seed · YC W23

Numeral is an AI-native indirect tax solution for U.S. and global businesses. It automates sales tax compliance for ecommerce and SaaS businesses, handling registration, monitoring for tax liabilities, rate calculation, collection, exemption certificate management, and filing and remittance of returns.

25 open roles36% remote

EcoVadis

EcoVadis

Paris, FR · Private Equity

21 open roles29% remote

Assent

Assent

ottawa, CA

Assent provides cloud-based SaaS solutions for product compliance, trade compliance and ESG.

19 open roles5% remote

Sphere, Inc.

Sphere, Inc.

San Francisco, US · Series A · YC W22

Sphere automates tax compliance for cross-border goods and services. Its AI engine reads and interprets tax law across 190+ countries to handle sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations.

15 open roles7% remote

Behavox

Behavox

London, GB · Late Stage Venture

Behavox provides an AI compliance and conduct surveillance platform for financial institutions.

15 open roles0% remote

Sphera

Sphera

chicago, US · Private Equity

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) software

15 open roles93% remote

Secfix

Secfix

Munich, DE · Series A

Secfix automates security compliance for small and medium businesses in Europe. The platform integrates with a company's tech stack, automatically extracts compliance evidence, and guides teams to certification.

15 open roles100% remote

Atlas Technology

Atlas Technology

chicago, US

We help companies determine how to engage each member of their workforce and then execute with accountability built in — direct Employer of Record (EOR), Agent of Record (AOR), payroll, and compliance capabilities backed by a decade of practitioner-led expertise.

14 open roles

TaxBit

TaxBit

Draper, US · Series B

TaxBit serves enterprises, financial institutions, and government bodies.

14 open roles0% remote

Middesk

Middesk

San Francisco, US · Series B · YC W19

Middesk provides business identity intelligence that enables companies to verify and onboard other businesses. Its platform aggregates data from 400+ government and authoritative sources into a single source of truth.

13 open roles0% remote

Secureframe

Secureframe

San Francisco, US · Series B

Secureframe is a security and compliance automation platform that helps teams manage security compliance and prepare for audits. The platform uses AI to automatically collect and verify audit evidence, monitor security controls, and generate documentation like SSPs and POA&Ms.

13 open roles15% remote

Ketryx

Ketryx

Cambridge, US · Series B

* Ketryx’s platform includes tools to help with building software as a medical device applications and AI in medical devices while remaining compliant. Ketryx’s platform is intended to help automate software documentation.

13 open roles0% remote

Solstice

Solstice

New York City, US · Series A

Solstice’s platform uses generative AI to streamline regulatory compliance and accelerate content distribution for pharmaceutical marketers.

13 open roles0% remote

Xapien

Xapien

London, GB · Series A

AI for background checks and due diligence

13 open roles0% remote

Zania

Zania

Palo Alto, US

Zania builds agentic AI agents that automate governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) workflows. Its agents execute risk assessments, evidence collection, controls testing, and gap analyses.

12 open roles0% remote

Padoa

Padoa

Paris, FR · Private Equity

Padoa provides a collaborative prevention platform connecting occupational health experts, businesses, and employees. Its products enable appointment scheduling, preventive health measures, and compliance management for occupational health centres.

12 open roles0% remote

EQS Group

EQS Group

Munich, DE · Post Ipo

EQS Group’s products are pooled in the cloud-based software EQS COCKPIT.

12 open roles9% remote

Footprint

Footprint

New York, US · Series A

Footprint is the agentic platform that runs compliance programs end-to-end, from watchlist screening to due diligence and KYC. It builds Percy, an AI agent that automates financial crime investigations by learning each team's procedures and making decisions such as clearing false positives and escalating real risk.

12 open roles0% remote

Gale

Gale

San Francisco, US · Seed

The platform simplifies the visa application process to a web form, streamlines compliance, and can integrate with HR systems.

12 open roles0% remote

Qualifyze

Qualifyze

Frankfurt am Main, DE · Series B

Qualifyze provides a supplier risk management platform for Life Sciences companies.

11 open roles27% remote

DataGuard

DataGuard

Munich, DE · Series B

DataGuard provides an all-in-one security and compliance software platform that helps businesses manage security risks, fast-track certifications, and comply with frameworks such as ISO 27001, TISAX, SOC 2, GDPR, NIS2, and the European AI Act. The platform combines AI-powered automation with expert consultancy to reduce the time and costs of building Information Security and Compliance Management Systems.

11 open roles0% remote

Avetta, LLC

Avetta, LLC

Lehi, US · Private Equity

Avetta provides a cloud-based platform for supply chain risk management and contractor prequalification. Its unified platform streamlines compliance, safety, and performance benchmarking.

11 open roles30% remote

Osano

Osano

austin, US · Series B

Osano provides privacy software that helps businesses manage consent, privacy requests, and compliance risks across their data operations.

11 open roles100% remote

Syndio

Syndio

Seattle, US · Series C

Syndio is a developer of a pay-equity platform that employers use to analyze employee compensation and promote equal pay for equal work.

10 open roles100% remote

Open roles

Newest roles at these startups

What compliance automation startups build

Companies working in compliance automation. Vanta: Vanta provides an AI-powered Trust Management Platform that automates compliance, security, and risk management for businesses. It helps companies achieve and maintain compliance with various frameworks, streamlining the audit process. OneTrust: OneTrust provides the AI-Ready Governance Platform that unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows. The platform helps organizations govern AI, protect privacy, and reduce data risk with global compliance at scale. Highwire: Highwire is the Contractor Success platform for owners, general contractors, and facilities managers. The platform helps ensure contractors deliver great work by dynamically mitigating safety, financial, quality, and sustainability risks throughout every project lifecycle.

The roles they hire for

Across the roles open today, the mix is sales and gtm (40%), engineering (15%), ai and ml (10%), product and design (7%) and operations (3%). Engineering roles here often ask for hands-on work with the product's hardest part, so a portfolio or a shipped project counts for more than a long resume.

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Frequently asked

Which compliance automation startups are hiring the most?

Right now: Vanta, OneTrust, Highwire, Globalization Partners and Sprinto. The list above ranks every company by the roles it has open today.

Do compliance automation startups hire remotely?

33% of the companies here hire mostly remote. Each company page shows its own remote share.

What roles do compliance automation startups hire for?

The most common are sales and gtm, engineering and ai and ml.

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