Technical Risk Manager
Posted 28 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Technical Risk Manager - Sr. Security Engineer I”
BranchFactor Summary
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- Level
- I
- Expected experience
- 4+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
No salary listed for this role.
CertificationsCRISC, CISSP, CISM
For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day.
Smartsheet needs a clear, defensible answer to "how risky is this?" for the risks that live inside our own environment and the risks that come in through every vendor and partner we rely on. We're looking for a Sr. Security Engineer I to own our Security Risk Management program end-to-end—running risk identification, analysis, and quantification; maintaining the enterprise risk register; and driving mitigation strategies that leadership can act on—while also overseeing our Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) function. You don't need to be a hands-on security engineer to succeed here: you need to understand our technology and architecture well enough to have a real conversation with engineering teams about their risk exposure, and you need the judgment and communication skill to turn technical risk into business language that drives decisions. This role sits at the center of how Smartsheet decides what to fix first, what to accept, and what a vendor relationship is actually costing us in risk.
This role reports to the Senior Director, GRC Engineering and can be based in our Bellevue, WA office or remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer.
You Will:
- Own and mature Smartsheet's Security Risk Management program: risk identification, analysis, scoring, and quantification (e.g., FAIR-based or similar) across internal systems, third parties, and emerging initiatives.
- Maintain the enterprise risk register—ratings, ownership, mitigation status, and residual risk—and drive it toward a living, decision-useful tool rather than a static spreadsheet.
- Lead risk analysis and reviews for new initiatives, architecture changes, and significant findings, translating technical exposure into business-relevant risk statements for leadership.
- Develop and drive risk mitigation strategy: work with risk owners across engineering, IT, and business teams to define remediation plans, track them to closure, and escalate what isn't moving.
- Oversee Smartsheet's Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) program: vendor risk tiering, security assessment/questionnaire review, ongoing monitoring, and issue tracking for the vendor and partner ecosystem.
- Build and present risk reporting and KPIs/KRIs to security and business leadership, giving them a clear view of top enterprise risks and where mitigation investment should go.