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SmartNews

AI-powered news aggregation and curation app

Senior SecOps and Governance, Risk, and Compliance Professional

Security Operations & Incident Response +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Japanese at primary or business level and English at intermediate or higher level.
  • Familiarity with the enterprise AI attack surface.
  • Hands-on threat detection and/or incident response experience, including building detections, conducting investigations, and improving operational playbooks.
  • Understanding of regulatory requirements, personal data protection laws, and compliance standards.
  • Substantial experience converting compliance controls into policy and scalable, auditable operations.
  • Experience partnering with internal Business Process Owners to define clear security requirements and implement them across business workflows.
  • Fluency with AI governance and compliance, including ISO 42001 and NIST AI RMF, and understanding of how these map to existing GRC frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience operating AI governance in a fast-adoption environment, including MCP/tool reviews, acceptable-use policies, data-classification guardrails, and AI-related incident response.

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve detection and response capabilities across SmartNews infrastructure and products, focusing on detection and operational response.
  • Automate response and investigations by building workflows for triage, enrichment, containment, and evidence capture to reduce manual effort and improve time to understand and contain incidents.
  • Evaluate and respond to emerging security concerns in a lab environment, including detection and response strategies for agents operating at scale across infrastructure.
  • Identify security-control gaps, develop remediation strategies, and coordinate vulnerability management and patching across IT and cloud systems.
  • Conduct comprehensive security and risk assessments across infrastructure, AI implementations, and global governance frameworks.
  • Overhaul and streamline ISMS policies, converting rigid legacy frameworks into clear, workable workflows for modern engineering and business operations.
  • Manage security inquiries, partner audits, and compliance obligations, including J-SOX and enterprise deal requirements, in collaboration with key business stakeholders.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience working within the governance function of a company that is aggressively adopting AI, with the ability to provide judgment on which risks require hard gates and which need monitored guardrails.
  • Practical experience in AI governance, AI risk management, and ISMS audit and certification processes.

About the Company

SmartNews

AI-powered news aggregation and curation app

SmartNews operates a news aggregation app that pulls stories from a network of over 3,000 publishers. The app uses machine learning to analyze millions of articles, social signals, and user interactions to select trending and relevant news, with features like SmartView and offline reading. It earns mainly from ads and publisher revenue-sharing, and offers SmartNews+ for premium content, plus SmartView First licensing for publishers. The goal is to provide a broad, newspaper-like reading experience that helps users discover trustworthy news and reduce information overload while sustaining its business through ads and partnerships.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$486.5M
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Founded
2012

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