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About the role
Most third-party risk roles hand you a mature program and ask you to keep the queue moving. This is the opposite.
What they're looking for
- 4+ years in third-party/vendor security risk or security assessment — real assessment reps, not just program administration
- Working fluency across SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR, plus enough command of the EU AI Act to reason about it rather than recite it
- Technical literacy — cloud architecture, access models, encryption, data flows — enough to know when a vendor's answer doesn't hold up
- Comfort with DPAs, BAAs, and security exhibits, and judgment about which clauses actually matter
- A bias toward shipping. You'll pitch solutions and drive implementation yourself, nobody is going to manage your day
- Clear writing and a high tolerance for ambiguity. When the precedent doesn't exist, you write the memo
More about this role
OpenRouter is the AI routing and infrastructure layer that AI builders, AI-native startups, and enterprises use to access, manage, and optimize their AI usage through a unified API, billing interface, and analytics platform. We route billions of tokens every month and sit at the center of how organizations operationalize LLMs across research, product, and production workloads.
We are a small team that punches above its weight. Every person here has direct impact on the product and our users.
Most third-party risk roles hand you a mature program and ask you to keep the queue moving. This is the opposite.
You'll be the first security risk analyst at OpenRouter, building the vendor risk function from a blank page. The vendors you assess aren't the usual SaaS sprawl — they're the model providers and subprocessors sitting directly in our customers' data path. And you'll do it in a regulatory environment still being written: there's no playbook for how the EU AI Act applies to an AI routing layer and its supply chain. You'll help write ours.
If you've ever finished a vendor review and thought this should take a third as long and catch twice as much — and wanted to be the one to fix it —...
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