Full-Time
Manager – Information Security & GRC
Posted on 9/11/2025
Visier Solutions
501-1,000 employees
Self-service people analytics and workforce planning
Compensation Overview
$110k - $150k/yr
Vancouver, BC, Canada
In Person
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- 8-10 years of relevant experience combined with +1 year of team management.
- Cloud Security Expertise: Deep knowledge of securing cloud environments like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Regulatory and Compliance Acumen: In-depth understanding of the laws, regulations, and standards relevant to the organization's industry and geographic locations.
- Network Security: A strong understanding of firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and secure network architecture.
- Identity and Access Management (IAM): Proficiency with Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
- Endpoint Security: Experience protecting employee devices and servers from threats.
- Audit Management: Proficiency in managing both internal and external audits, from planning and evidence gathering to responding to findings and tracking remediation.
- Vulnerability Management: The ability to identify, assess, and remediate vulnerabilities in corporate systems.
- Leadership and Communication: You can clearly articulate complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, influencing stakeholders across the organization.
- Strategic Thinking: The ability to align security initiatives with broader business objectives.
- Problem-Solving: The capacity to remain calm under pressure and make critical decisions during a security incident.
- Develop and enforce security policies and procedures, establishing clear guidelines for everything from data handling to acceptable technology use.
- Implement and manage data protection and privacy measures to ensure compliance with relevant regulations.
- Align the security program with our overall GRC strategy, ensuring a unified controls framework that efficiently meets multiple compliance and governance requirements (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR).
- Lead the incident response process, from initial detection and containment to eradication and recovery.
- Establish and manage the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) program, including defining the corporate risk appetite, conducting risk assessments, and maintaining a central risk register.
- Educate employees on current threats and best practices to foster a company-wide security-conscious culture.
- Manage vendor and third-party risk, ensuring all external partners meet our security standards.
- Collaborate closely with IT and other departments to ensure security is seamlessly integrated into all corporate systems and processes.
- Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or similar.
Visier provides people analytics and workforce planning via a subscription-based software platform called Visier People. It helps HR teams and business leaders analyze workforce data to improve HR outcomes such as burnout, hiring efficiency, and gender pay equity. The product is a self-service, intuitive analytics platform with dashboards and data visualizations that users can use without deep technical skills to uncover actionable insights from their employee data. Visier differentiates itself by offering an easy-to-use, enterprise-grade SaaS solution focused on people analytics and workforce planning, with added value from the Yva.ai acquisition that deepens understanding of work and team dynamics. The company serves both large enterprises and mid-sized organizations across industries and supported by consulting and support services. Its goal is to help organizations optimize their human capital and make data-driven decisions that lead to better business results.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Series E
Total Funding
$261.5M
Headquarters
Vancouver, Canada
Founded
2010
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Gartner Leader status and IDC recognition drive enterprise adoption and premium pricing power.
- 78% of executives prioritizing skills intelligence fuels demand for Visier's OSI ecosystem.
- Manager Agent and Workforce AI expansion unlock new revenue streams within existing customer base.
What critics are saying
- Workday and SAP embed native workforce planning, directly competing for net-new enterprise deals.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot integration commoditizes Visier's analytics, forcing price compression across SaaS.
- DIY agentic AI agents eliminate need for Visier's governed MCP layer within 18-24 months.
What makes Visier Solutions unique
- Visier's agentic AI and MCP integration embed workforce insights directly into enterprise tools.
- Open Skills Initiative partnerships with TechWolf, Fuel50, Lightcast address AI-driven reskilling urgently.
- 250,000x faster analytics engine processes unlimited data sources versus traditional BI technology.
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↑ 3%Visier launches Global Partner Program to revamp and accelerate ecosystem growth. Vancouver, BC | Mar 17, 2026 VANCOUVER - March 17, 2026 - Visier, the global leader in Workforce Intelligence, today announced the launch of its new Visier Global Partner Program. This program, which already counts some of the world's most trusted HR and business consultancies in its ranks, aims to unlock growth, enhance customer value, promote innovation, and empower partners and customers alike to leverage Visier's Workforce AI solutions to connect talent to outcomes. "Our commitment to building a world-class partner ecosystem is a deep commitment to our customers," said Ryan Wong, CEO of Visier. "By focusing on fostering a culture of partner-led innovation, we are ensuring that our clients have the most sophisticated workforce insights in the industry powered by our world-class Visier Workforce AI. When our partners have a great experience, our customers win." The Visier Global Partner Program is designed to empower partners with the tools, enablement, and incentives needed to help customers unlock the full value of their workforce data. Key elements of Visier's Partner Program include: * New Go-To-Market Programs: Best in class incentives and sales motions that reward partners for helping their customers with Visier. * Partner-Led Innovation: Partners have an opportunity to innovate with Visier by leveraging Visier's Workforce AI platform to curate specialized solutions to meet customers' needs. For customers, this means access to a wider array of industry-specific "plug-and-play" innovations tailored to their unique workforce challenges. * Partner Experience: The Visier Partner program provides partners with the enablement, go to market resources, and tools needed to empower them to support their customers. * Organizational Support: Visier is on a mission to work with its partners to ensure customer success with unparalleled synergy and support in both the sales and implementation phases of the customer journey and lifecycle. "Visier is building a next-generation partner ecosystem, combining the industry's most advanced Workforce AI with a next-generation, partner-led growth model," said Tim Quan, Global Vice President of Partnerships. "Together with our partners, we empower organizations to unlock the full value of their workforce data, generating actionable insights, anticipating future workforce needs, and driving smarter talent and workforce decisions with Visier Workforce AI." To learn more about the Visier Partner Program and apply to join, visit the Visier Partners page, or stop by booth #231 at Unleash America. About Visier Visier is the global leader in Workforce Intelligence, empowering organizations to make every people decision with confidence. Through Visier Workforce AI, its award-winning AI technology delivers actionable insights that help HR leaders plan, decide, and act at the moments that matter most. As the market leader in people analytics, workforce planning, organizational design, and manager effectiveness, Visier Inc. enable companies worldwide to drive smarter workforce decisions, optimize talent strategies, and achieve measurable business impact. Its mission is to help businesses lead with insight at scale while continuously transforming in a rapidly changing workforce landscape. Founded in 2010 by the pioneers of business intelligence, Visier Inc. has over 85,000 customers in 75 countries - including enterprises like Panasonic, Domino's Pizza, Experian, Amgen, eBay, and Ford Motor Company.
JobKred joins Visier's skills OSI to bridge APAC skills gaps and align talent development with tangible business outcomes. News provided by. Talent leaders can now confidently shape an AI-ready workforce with verifiable skills intelligence VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Visier, the globally recognized leader in Workforce Intelligence, and JobKred, a leading provider of skills-based workforce transformation solutions in Asia Pacific, today announced a strategic partnership. This new alliance brings essential skills intelligence and insights, ensuring businesses can quickly address the critical gaps which are accelerated by AI adoption and a retiring workforce. To help navigate talent shortages and the rapid shift to AI, organizations must first build a resilient workforce. That journey starts with clearly mapping existing skills and precisely addressing deficiencies. This new partnership delivers those capabilities to APAC organizations, combining Visier's advanced workforce analytics with JobKred's verified skills platform. Leaders can now gain the clarity to transition to a skills-based workforce model and drive measurable business outcomes. The solution enables the proactive reduction of skills gaps and ensures every talent decision is data-driven, maximizing L&D ROI and boosting employee retention. "The shift to a skills-based organization is a critical competitive advantage in today's dynamic market, and it begins with data-driven clarity," said Lee Boon Huat, SVP, Growth & Strategy, Visier APAC. "Our partnership with JobKred is a direct response to the rising demand in APAC for solutions that bridge people analytics and career growth. By combining Visier's actionable insights with JobKred's skills data, we empower leaders to cultivate a truly adaptable workforce." This integrated solution will enable HR and business leaders to: * Identify Critical Skill Gaps: Use advanced analytics to pinpoint current and future skills shortages based on business strategy and external market trends. * Personalize Employee Growth: Guide employees toward relevant learning pathways and career moves that align with both their aspirations and organisational needs. * Measure Transformation ROI: Quantify the impact of skills development programs on key business outcomes, including productivity and retention. "Asia Pacific is at a pivotal moment. Companies know they need to move to skills-based models but often lack the data and tools to make it happen," said Gary Gan, CEO and Co-Founder, JobKred. "This partnership between JobKred and Visier gives organizations in the region the end-to-end capabilities to make workforce transformation real, measurable, and scalable. By combining JobKred's skills intelligence with Visier's workforce analytics, we're laying the foundation for a skills-first future, where talent decisions are powered by data, and every upskilling investment is linked to tangible business outcome." Discover the types of valuable skill insights that Visier generates from JobKred data at: https://www.visier.com/solutions/skills. About JobKred In an era of accelerating changes and talent shortages, organizations require more than just data - they need verifiable skills intelligence to confidently transform their workforce. JobKred is a Skills Intelligence and Workforce Readiness Platform built to solve the triple challenge of skill gaps, retention, and workforce agility. By delivering credible, evidence-based skills data and powerful AI-driven insights, JobKred enables confident, strategic workforce decisions. Our platform supports a skills-first transformation by precisely mapping workforce capabilities and designing clear career and learning pathways. This is achieved through validated skills frameworks, AI-driven career guidance, and targeted talent deployment, and ensures organizations can proactively develop their people and boost retention - building a workforce prepared for tomorrow's challenges. As a trusted partner to nearly 2,000 enterprises and an official technology partner to the Singapore Government for national workforce initiatives, JobKred brings deep and specialized expertise across the APAC market. To learn more, visit jobkred.com About Visier Visier is the global leader in Workforce Intelligence that powers every people decision. Our award-winning, agentic AI technology surfaces the insights leaders need to plan, decide, and act with confidence in the moments that matter most. As the market leader in people analytics, workforce planning, organizational design, and manager effectiveness solutions, we fuel smarter decision-making for organizations across the globe. Our mission is to help businesses lead with insight at scale as they continuously transform. Founded in 2010 by the pioneers of business intelligence, we have over 65,000 customers in 75 countries - including enterprises like BASF, Panasonic, Domino's Pizza, Experian, Amgen, eBay, and Ford Motor Company.
Visier launches MCP for AI agents, delivering governed people data across the enterprise. News provided by. Visier MCP is an approved listing on the Anthropic MCP directory Announced at Outsmart Brooklyn, Visier is leading the industry with its universal connection for AI, enabling a unified strategy for IT and HR to unlock more value from people data in any system VANCOUVER, BC and NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Today at its Outsmart Local conference, Visier, the globally recognized leader in Workforce Intelligence, announced a significant expansion of its Generative AI strategy with the launch of Visier MCP (Model Context Protocol) server to deliver Visier analytic insights through any preferred agentic workflow. The company is tackling one of the biggest challenges in enterprise AI: the proliferation of one-off, unscalable agent integrations. Visier is launching its MCP which acts as a universal connector for AI agents to discover and invoke governed people functions, delivering trusted people insights directly into the enterprise tools where decisions are made. Anthropic, which launched the open source standard for MCP, has included Visier's MCP as an approved listing in their connectors directory. MCP has been adopted by major AI providers, including OpenAI and Google DeepMind. This announcement addresses a critical intersection of priorities for both Technology and HR leaders. As organizations grapple with the complexity of deploying AI, they face significant risks in ensuring sensitive workforce data is used responsibly. Definitions for metrics like headcount and labor cost must be consistent, and data access must adhere to enterprise security policies which is a core concern for both CIOs, CHROs, and Heads of People Analytics. "The market is quickly realizing that building DIY agents on top of context-poor APIs is a recipe for chaos," said Ike Bennion, Vice President, Product Management, Platform, at Visier. "Our goal is to deliver context-rich Visier analytic insights through our customers' preferred agentic workflows. We are providing the 'USB-C for agents,' a standardized way for IT to connect any agent to a single source of workforce truth that HR trusts. This turns a complex integration problem into a simple, scalable, and secure solution. More than that, it brings together HR and IT teams to work cohesively and seamlessly together, knowing their data has the utmost security while enabling transformation in their organizations through the strategic use of AI agents." A Unified Strategy for IT and People Analytics This open standard for agent connectivity allows customers to extend the power of Visier's analytics engine beyond its native interface and into the systems where work already happens. By connecting Visier's governed people data to other enterprise agents, organizations can now solve complex, cross-functional business problems. For example, business leaders can combine Visier People data with sales pipeline data to identify at-risk top performers, a use case that requires both robust data integration and deep analytical insight. Visier's new innovation acts as a clearing house for agents, providing curated, versioned, and policy-aligned workforce data functions. Key benefits for a joint IT and HR strategy include: * Amplify Business Impact and ROI: Extend the reach of your people analytics investment by embedding trusted, actionable insights directly into any enterprise application or AI agent, driving better, faster business decisions. * Future-Proof Your AI Strategy: Maintain complete flexibility with an agent-agnostic platform that connects to any MCP-capable agent, like Claude. This allows IT to standardize on a single, secure protocol while empowering business units to innovate with the best tools for their needs. * Ensure Consistent, Governed Answers: Guarantee every data call is aligned with existing enterprise entitlements and data masking policies, providing a fully auditable trail with the option for human-in-the-loop oversight. "We are excited to see Visier extend its people intelligence capabilities with the Model Context Protocol, providing a key piece of the enterprise AI ecosystem on AWS," said Rajesh Sheth, VP and GM, Amazon Bedrock. "This new addition is a forward-thinking solution that allows our joint customers to deploy a unified, future-proof AI strategy. By simplifying how agents access secure, consistent people data, Visier is accelerating the ability of organizations to drive transformation through data-informed decisions on our platform." "We are thrilled by the agentic possibilities that MCP unlocks within the HCM landscape," said Sean Sampoyo, Chief Product Officer of Fuel50. "This innovation paves the way for enhanced partnership and collaboration with Visier, as Fuel50 continues to redefine internal mobility and champion the retention of critical skills for our customers." The Visier MCP powered by AWS will be available on November 22, 2025. It is bundled and sold with Visier's Vee agent, part of the Visier Enterprise solution, at no additional license cost. Visier will also showcase the MCP in action at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, taking place December 1-5, as part of its expanding role in the AI ecosystem. About Visier Visier is the global leader in Workforce Intelligence that powers every people decision. Our award-winning, agentic AI technology surfaces the insights leaders need to plan, decide, and act with confidence in the moments that matter most. As the market leader in people analytics, workforce planning, organizational design, and manager effectiveness solutions, we fuel smarter decision-making for organizations across the globe. Our mission is to help businesses lead with insight at scale as they continuously transform. Founded in 2010 by the pioneers of business intelligence, we have over 65,000 customers in 75 countries - including enterprises like BASF, Panasonic, Domino's Pizza, Experian, Amgen, eBay, and Ford Motor Company. SOURCE Visier
* Visier launched People Agent, delivering workforce insights in real time.
VANCOUVER, BC and LAS VEGAS, Sept. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Visier, the globally recognized leader in Workforce Intelligence, today announced the launch of its Manager Agent to scale great management behaviors in enterprises and unlock superhuman potential at work.