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Zania

Zania

Palo Alto, CA

AI agents for enterprise GRC workflows

9 open roles
Cybersecurity1-50Series AFounded 2023

About

Zania builds autonomous AI agents that execute complex governance, risk, and compliance tasks including third-party risk assessments, audits, and controls testing. It serves security teams at Fortune 500 companies and audit firms, delivering accurate, explainable outputs to replace manual work. This enables GRC professionals to focus on strategic decisions rather than busywork.

Tech stack

PythonSparkAWSAzureGCPTypeScriptReact

Perks & benefits

Equity

Open roles

9
Zania

Engineering Manager

ZaniaSan Francisco, CA

Leads engineering end-to-end, combining hands-on architecture and AI/ML delivery with hiring and scaling an engineering organization from roughly 5 to 15–20 engineers. Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, founding or technical leadership experience, and a proven ability to ship production agentic systems.

Salary not listedOn-site8+ YOEEngineering Management
Zania

Growth & Demand Generation

ZaniaPalo Alto, CA

The role will build and operate a high-velocity enterprise pipeline engine through ABM, targeted campaigns, experimentation, and close sales collaboration. Candidates need 3+ years of B2B growth marketing or demand generation experience, strong enterprise messaging skills, and hands-on marketing-stack expertise.

Salary not listedOn-site3+ YOEGrowth Marketing
Zania

Software Engineer

ZaniaSan Francisco, CA

Build scalable backend services and agentic AI infrastructure for an enterprise GRC platform. The role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Python and distributed-systems expertise, and a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

100k – 200k/yrOn-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Zania

Head of Engineering

ZaniaSan Francisco, CA

Hands-on technical leader owning end-to-end engineering for AI agents in compliance workflows, scaling team from 5 to 20+ engineers while architecting production-grade LLM systems and driving weekly shipping velocity. Requires founder experience, AI expertise, and Bay Area network.

Salary not listedOn-siteEngineering Management
Zania

Ex Founder

ZaniaPalo Alto, CA

Ex-founder to serve as founder proxy and co-pilot to the leadership team at fast-growing AI GRC startup Zania. Drive 0-to-1 strategic initiatives, accelerate growth experiments, manage investor relations, and operate with extreme ownership across revenue, operations, and product.

Salary not listedOn-siteBusiness Operations
Zania

Software Engineer

ZaniaSan Francisco, CA

Full-stack Software Engineer building secure, scalable web applications with a focus on authentication, RBAC, and security best practices. Requires 3+ years experience with modern frontend (React/Angular), backend (Node.js/Python), and cloud/container technologies.

166k – 200k/yrHybrid3+ YOEFullstack Engineering
Zania

GRC Engineer

ZaniaSan Francisco, CA

Own enterprise GRC implementations end-to-end: set success goals, lead onboarding to go-live, act as compliance authority for CISOs, and feed product insights back to engineering. Requires 3-8 years GRC/compliance experience and fluency in at least two major frameworks.

130k – 170k/yrOn-site3+ YOESolutions Architecture
Zania

Founding Account Executive

ZaniaPalo Alto, CA

Founding Account Executive drives full-cycle sales for AI-powered GRC platform, generating own enterprise pipeline, closing six-figure deals, and building sales playbook in early-stage startup. Requires 5+ years B2B SaaS experience with hunter mentality.

Salary not listedOn-site5+ YOEAccount Executive
Zania

Applied AI Engineer

ZaniaSan Francisco, CA

Builds production AI agents and workflows for governance, risk, and compliance, fine-tuning LLMs on proprietary data for high-accuracy tasks like regulatory analysis and risk assessment. Requires 3+ years applied AI experience with production ML systems emphasizing explainability and responsibility.

180k – 250k/yrOn-site3+ YOEML Engineering