Vendor Risk Manager Dalio Family Office Dalio Family Office Overview: The Dalio Family Office (DFO) supports Barbara and Ray Dalio and their family in their ventures, investments, and philanthropic efforts under Dalio Philanthropies, which includes OceanX, Dalio Education, Endless Network, and the Beijing Dalio Foundation. The core of the DFO’s culture is built around meaningful work and meaningful relationships and the family’s commitment to giving back. The office is headquartered in Westport, CT with regional offices in New York City, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi.

Position Summary: The Vendor Risk Manager owns the end-to-end third-party risk lifecycle, onboarding, diligence, monitoring, and exit across a high-volume, diverse vendor portfolio. You will synthesize risk across cybersecurity, AI, privacy, financial, and AML/CFT/sanctions domains into clear, actionable risk positions, performing structured threat modeling for high-exposure vendors.

Responsibilities

would include a combination of the following: Own the VRM program end-to-end: strategy, policy, procedure, workflow, tooling, metrics, and executive reporting for CISO/CRO/board visibility. Lead holistic vendor risk assessments across cybersecurity, AI risk, privacy, financial, AML/CFT/sanctions. Document residual risk acceptances with named accountable executives and time-boxed review dates; coordinate with IT, Legal, Finance, and Compliance as appropriate.

Evaluate and monitor vendor security controls based on data sensitivity and business criticality, leveraging industry frameworks and evidence such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, penetration testing, and security assessments. Conduct structured threat models (STRIDE, PASTA) for high risk vendors, a nd document findings as durable artifacts informing contracting, monitoring, and exit planning.

Requirements

drawing from OWASP (ASVS, API Security Top 10, LLM/Agentic Top 10), NIST (SP 800-53, SP 800-161, CSF 2.0, SP 800-207), and MITRE ATT scale

to vendor tier.

Apply FAIR or comparable quantitative methods for high-impact vendor decisions, expressing cyber risk in loss-exposure terms that resonate with senior leadership. Advise IT, Engineering and business teams on vendor integration architecture (SSO/SCIM, OAuth, conditional access, DLP, segmentation, BYOK, VPC peering) and maintain approved reference patterns. Drive automation and tooling maturity to handle high vendor volume without proportional headcount growth; produce program dashboards tracking throughput, cycle time, recertification compliance, and remediation aging .

Benefits

: 100% company paid medical premiums 17 company paid holidays Friday summer hours Monthly community happy hours Hybrid work environment Free catered food services for in-office days Generous PTO offering Casual dress code 150% 401(k) match up to $7,500 and 100% match above $7,500 ($15k match limit) Gym reimbursement, back up childcare services, insurance, financial, and legal services, and much more!

Qualifications

: Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Risk Management, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline. At least 7 years of progressive experience across vendor risk management, cybersecurity architecture, security engineering, GRC, audit, or related fields.