Program Manager, Upmarket Education

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Design and scale a best-in-class education experience for upmarket customers, ensuring alignment with customer outcomes through proactive and scalable educational programs.

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 

Vanta is looking for a Program Manager, Upmarket Education to design, build, and scale a best-in-class education experience for our upmarket (MM, ENT, Strategic) customers. This role sits at the intersection of customer education, customer success, and premium support, with a mandate to create structured learning journeys that help sophisticated customers adopt Vanta deeply and confidently.

Upmarket customers at Vanta operate with increasing levels of complexity, stakeholder involvement, and risk sensitivity. Upmarket customers look to Vanta for fast, opinionated guidance that helps them scale compliance without friction, and expect a trusted, predictable partner that fits into established security and compliance programs.

You’ll own the end-to-end education program for these segments — from defining the customer learning journey, to creating high-impact content, to delivering live and custom training for our most strategic accounts. You’ll work closely with Customer Success, Premium Support, and internal subject-matter experts to ensure education is proactive, scalable, and tightly aligned to customer outcomes.

This is a highly visible role that requires strong executive presence, comfort in high-stakes customer conversations, and the ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear, durable programs.

What you’ll do as a Program Manager, Upmarket Education at Vanta:

Build & Own the Upmarket Education Program

  • Design and maintain a clear, end-to-end education journey for upmarket and enterprise customers, aligned to onboarding, expansion, and long-term success.

  • Define what “great” education looks like for this segment and translate that into repeatable programs and assets.

  • Establish success metrics to measure the impact of education on adoption, confidence, and customer outcomes.

  • Create Scalable, High-Impact Educational Content

  • Develop and maintain educational content tailored to mid-market and enterprise needs, including:

    • Linear learning courses

    • Live and virtual training sessions

    • Technical and product-focused articles

  • Ensure content is practical, outcome-oriented, and reflects real customer workflows and use cases.

  • Continuously iterate on content based on customer feedback, product changes, and support insights.

  • Plan and deliver custom training sessions for Vanta’s premium support and strategic customers.

  • Facilitate live training with confidence and clarity for technical and executive audiences.

  • Adapt training in real time based on customer maturity, risk profile, and goals.

  • Work closely with Upmarket Customer Success teams to:

    • Identify gaps in educational resources

    • Spot recurring customer challenges and opportunities for enablement

    • Align education initiatives with account strategies

  • Partner with Premium Support to ensure education reduces friction, accelerates resolution, and drives proactive value.

  • Act as a trusted internal advisor on how education can better support complex customers.

  • Own strategic, cross-functional problems from definition through execution.

  • Balance bespoke customer needs with the creation of scalable, reusable solutions.

  • Influence stakeholders across teams without direct authority.

How to be successful in this role:

Experience:

  • 5–6+ years of experience in:

    • Upmarket Customer Education, and/or

    • Customer Success, Enablement, or Training

  • Experience working in a SaaS environment, ideally with technical or compliance-driven products.

  • Proven track record of owning complex, strategic initiatives and driving measurable outcomes independently.

Skills & Strengths:

  • Strong program management skills, able to structure ambiguity into clear plans and deliverables.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex topics clearly.

  • Executive presence and comfort leading high-stakes conversations with senior customer stakeholders.

  • Ability to balance customer empathy with business and scalability considerations.

  • Comfortable presenting, facilitating live sessions, and fielding unscripted questions.

Nice to have:

  • Background in technical training, compliance, or risk-related domains.

  • Experience building education programs from scratch or significantly scaling an existing one.

  • Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact

What you can expect as a Vanta’n:

  • Industry-competitive compensation

  • 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage

  • 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents

  • Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends

  • Family planning benefits

  • 401(k) matching

  • Flexible work hours and location

  • Open PTO policy

  • 11 paid holidays in the US

  • Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, and Sydney

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

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At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged. 

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Education Stipend: Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
  • Flexible Work Hours: Flexible work hours and location
  • Health & wellness stipends: Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
  • Paid Parental Leave: 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents
  • Paid Time Off: Open PTO policy

Vanta automates SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, and GDPR compliance certification, streamlining security and compliance processes for businesses to achieve and maintain regulatory compliance efficiently.

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