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Factory is building the platform for self-improving software development, helping enterprise engineering teams turn their organizations into autonomous software factories. Customers including Nvidia, Blackstone, Royal Bank of Canada, Palo Alto Networks, Adobe, and T-Mobile use Factory to ship code, review PRs, run tests, and deploy continuously. The company raised $200M at a $5B valuation in 2026, with total funding exceeding $400M, backed by Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Blackstone, and industry leaders.
Factory is seeking a Federal Compliance Lead to build and run the federal compliance program from the ground up as the company expands into civilian, defense, and intelligence agencies. This is a foundational role that will establish the policies, processes, and guidance enabling Factory to sell to the U.S. government with confidence.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and implement Factory's public sector sales compliance program, establishing policies, standard operating procedures, and monitoring mechanisms for government deals.
- Partner directly with Federal Account Executives and Deal Desk from opportunity qualification through award, reviewing RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs for compliance obligations, flow-down clauses, commercial item determinations, and contractual risk.
- Ensure comprehensive compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), Procurement Integrity Act, Trade Agreements Act (TAA), Buy American Act, and NDAA Section 889.
- Work closely with Engineering and Security to align Factory's product roadmap with federal certifications and authorization requirements, including ITAR, FIPS, SOC 2, FedRAMP, DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG/IL levels), and NIST SP 800-53/800-171 controls.
- Administer company-wide federal ethics guidelines, managing organizational conflicts of interest (OCI), post-government employment restrictions, anti-kickback policies, and gift/entertainment rules.
- Monitor emerging federal AI policy, including OMB memos and agency-specific AI acquisition guidelines, and Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) mandates, translating policy into actionable operational guidance.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in federal procurement compliance, government contracts management, or federal sales operations at an enterprise SaaS, cloud platform, or high-growth defense tech company.
- Deep working knowledge of FAR, DFARS, commercial software contracting practices, Other Transaction Authority (OTA) mechanisms, and federal subcontract flow-downs.
- Proven track record operationalizing compliance frameworks for cloud software, including familiarity with FedRAMP authorization pathways, DoD Impact Levels, and NIST compliance frameworks.
- Ability to build a compliance program from scratch, comfortable operating in high-velocity, ambiguous environments, and proactive about finding scalable solutions that enable sales momentum.
- Exceptional ability to synthesize dense regulatory requirements into clear guidance for sales executives, software engineers, corporate counsel, and federal Contracting Officers.
- U.S. Citizenship required due to access to federal contract data and federal systems; holding an active U.S. security clearance (Secret or Top Secret) or ability to obtain one is preferred.
