Full-Time

GRC Analyst

Posted on 8/21/2026

Explorance

Explorance

201-500 employees

Provides people insights and AI recommendations

No salary listed

Montreal, QC, Canada

In Person

Applicants must reside in Montreal or the surrounding area and work on-site.

Bachelor's

Category
IT & Security (1)
Required Skills
Incident Response
SOC 2
JIRA
Penetration Testing
HIPAA

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Requirements
  • Three to five years of relevant experience in governance, risk and compliance, information security compliance, technology risk, information technology audit, privacy operations, security assurance, or a related field.
  • Post-secondary education in cybersecurity, information technology, audit, risk management, privacy, business, law, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
  • Practical experience with control testing, audit evidence, compliance monitoring, risk registers, issue management, remediation tracking, customer assurance, or vendor reviews.
  • Working knowledge of one or more recognized frameworks, such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, HIPAA, or a comparable framework, including its control and evidence requirements.
  • Experience drafting or maintaining policies, standards, procedures, control descriptions, audit documentation, and reusable response materials.
  • Strong analytical, documentation, organizational, prioritization, and follow-up skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple concurrent activities, deadlines, and stakeholders with limited supervision.
  • Ability to distinguish matters that can be handled operationally from those requiring escalation, regulatory interpretation, legal review, or material-risk approval.
  • Professional proficiency in French and English, spoken and written, to support global customers, auditors, and business stakeholders.
  • High integrity, discretion, sound judgment, and respect for confidential information.
  • Applicants must reside in Montreal or the surrounding area and be interested in an on-site workplace culture.
Responsibilities
  • Coordinate and execute day-to-day governance, risk, compliance, information security assurance, and operational privacy program activities.
  • Maintain compliance documentation.
  • Coordinate control testing and internal and external audits.
  • Administer risk and remediation records.
  • Manage customer assurance requests and support sales.
  • Support third-party risk reviews.
  • Provide privacy and regulatory support.
  • Support security awareness and operational resilience activities.
  • Produce GRC metrics, reporting, and reliable audit evidence.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Information Technology, Security, Human Resources, Sales, Support, Finance, and other teams.
  • Maintain continuous audit readiness, customer trust, security and privacy compliance maturity, and operational resilience.
  • Escalate material risks, nonstandard commitments, regulatory interpretations, significant exceptions, and time-sensitive concerns promptly.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in a SaaS, cloud software, technology, education technology, or data-intensive organization.
  • Direct experience supporting a SOC 2 audit or comparable assurance program.
  • Familiarity with PIPEDA, GDPR, Quebec Law 25, privacy impact assessments, and data-protection requirements.
  • Experience with third-party risk management, penetration-test remediation, vulnerability governance, business continuity, disaster recovery, or incident-response exercises.
  • Experience with GRC platforms, compliance automation tools, privacy-management tools, Jira, or structured workflow systems.
  • Exposure to AI governance, data residency, responsible AI assessments, or governance of AI-enabled SaaS services.
  • Professional proficiency in French, spoken and written.
  • A relevant certification or progress toward one, such as CISA, CRISC, CISM, Security+, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, or a comparable credential.

Explorance provides People Insight Solutions to help organizations and institutions understand how people experience work and grow in their roles. It connects moments that matter—covering needs, expectations, skills, knowledge, and competency—into a unified view that informs talent decisions. The product relies on measurement expertise and AI-enabled recommendations to move from insight to action, supporting faster, more informed decisions. Unlike general analytics vendors, Explorance focuses on the convergence of people experiences and talent effectiveness, serving 25% of the Fortune 100 and top higher education institutions through a global footprint and trusted culture. The company’s goal is to accelerate the insight-to-action cycle, enabling organizational agility and individual success.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$25M

Headquarters

Montreal, Canada

Founded

2003

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What believers are saying

  • Explorance added Swinburne, Ivy Tech, and Goethe Business School in 2026.
  • Explorance World 2026 awarded 23 customers, signaling sticky enterprise and university adoption.
  • Updated 2026 site claims 1,000+ organizations and 30% of top universities.

What critics are saying

  • Qualtrics and Watermark compress course-evaluation budgets by bundling broader experience-management suites.
  • Explorance still depends heavily on higher education; enrollment shocks hit renewal pipelines fast.
  • If AI feedback tools commoditize, Explorance becomes a niche automation vendor with shrinking pricing power.

What makes Explorance unique

  • Explorance Blue automates institution-wide course evaluations across Canvas, Moodle, and SIS workflows.
  • MLY uses AI to analyze open-ended feedback for universities like UWE Bristol.
  • MTM 9.5 and 9.4 deepen multilingual L&D measurement for enterprise training teams.

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The significance of these awards was further highlighted through two keynote addresses at Explorance World. Steve Lange, General Manager of the Metrics That Matter business unit, delivered a compelling keynote entitled "The MTM Vision & Roadmap: Optimizing the Value of Learning Investments." Lange emphasized the rising pressure on L&D teams to go beyond program delivery to build critical skills, show business value, and make smarter investments. He showcased how MTM is evolving from traditional measurement tools toward predictive intelligence, prescriptive guidance, and continuous optimization to help organizations surface insights faster and embed learning intelligence into business decision-making. Complementing this forward-looking vision, Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer at Brandon Hall Group, delivered a keynote titled "Performance or Irrelevance: The Moment of Truth for L&D and Talent." 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"Together, these awards and keynotes highlight that the future of learning measurement lies in the learning organization becoming a strategic partner to the business. To be a strategic partner, learning organizations need to predict business outcomes, guide business actions, and drive continuous workforce performance improvement at scale," concluded Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer, Brandon Hall Group. About the MTM Learning Excellence Awards The MTM Learning Excellence Awards recognize organizations that demonstrate exceptional performance in learning measurement and outcomes. Winners are selected based on rigorous benchmarking across four critical metrics: Likert Average scores, Net Promoter Score, Scrap Learning reduction, and Estimated Performance Improvement. Drawing from billions of data points collected through MTM's standardized measurement framework, these awards identify organizations that exemplify data-driven learning excellence and strategic L&D leadership. 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