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Governance, risk, and compliance jobs are a strong fit for F-1 OPT students with backgrounds in business, information systems, finance, or law. Most GRC roles qualify as specialty occupations, supporting STEM OPT extension eligibility for qualifying degree fields. Demand spans financial services, healthcare, and tech.
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Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS JOB
- As one diverse, high-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivaled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline.
- As a Cybersecurity GRC Engineer/Sr. Engineer focused on Risk Management, you will help shape and advance cybersecurity risk management capabilities that translate technical risk into prioritized business decisions and action. You will apply expertise in cyber risk analysis, risk and control practices, risk intelligence, metrics, data, and GRC technology to strengthen how cybersecurity risks are identified, analyzed, treated, monitored, and communicated. You will have the opportunity to engineer scalable risk management practices and data-driven capabilities that help American anticipate evolving threats, technologies, regulatory expectations, and business needs.
As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.
- Apply Specialized GRC Expertise: Interpret cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory requirements, enterprise policies, risk methodologies, and control expectations to translate complex requirements into practical governance, risk, compliance, and portfolio management practices.
- Design and Mature GRC Processes and Control Practices: Develop, refine, and operationalize policies, standards, procedures, control mappings, assessment methods, evidence expectations, and governance routines that improve consistency, quality, and defensibility across cybersecurity activities.
- Perform Advanced Risk, Control, and Compliance Analysis: Evaluate risks, control gaps, compliance obligations, remediation plans, exceptions, issues, and supporting evidence to determine impact, root cause, prioritization, and appropriate risk response.
- Exercise Independent Technical Judgment: Develop recommendations, influence operating practices, and determine how GRC, portfolio, work management, and financial governance activities should be structured, measured, and executed to improve cyber risk outcomes.
- Lead Technical Execution for Assessments, Audits, and Regulatory Requests: Coordinate and execute control assessments, audit responses, evidence reviews, regulatory requests, testing activities, and issue validation by applying technical judgment to determine whether control design and operating effectiveness are supported.
- Build and Maintain Cyber Portfolio Operating Practices: Develop and manage work intake, prioritization methods, roadmaps, delivery plans, dependency tracking, decision logs, status reporting, portfolio health views, and execution routines that enable cybersecurity leaders to manage commitments and outcomes.
- Analyze Financial, Resource, and Delivery Information: Evaluate budgets, forecasts, run-rate trends, resource plans, vendor and contractor spend, purchase activity, and delivery commitments to identify gaps, tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities to improve portfolio decision-making.
- Develop Metrics, Insights, and Executive-Ready Reporting: Define, validate, analyze, and communicate cybersecurity, compliance, portfolio, financial, and operational metrics that support leadership visibility, risk-informed decisions, and measurable improvement.
- Serve as a Subject Matter Resource: Provide guidance to cybersecurity, technology, business, finance, sourcing, legal, privacy, and audit stakeholders on GRC requirements, control expectations, portfolio processes, work management practices, and financial governance activities.
- Drive Continuous Improvement and Automation Opportunities: Identify and implement improvements to workflows, tools, templates, data quality, reporting, documentation, and operating practices to increase efficiency, reduce manual effort, and improve the quality of GRC and portfolio management outcomes.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS – EDUCATION & PRIOR JOB EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Risk Management, Compliance, Audit, Finance, Data Analytics, Project/Portfolio Management, or a related technical or business discipline, or equivalent experience/training.
- Experience applying cybersecurity governance, risk, compliance, control, technology risk, audit, cyber portfolio management, work management, or financial management practices to interpret requirements, analyze information, coordinate execution, and support risk-informed stakeholder decisions.
- Experience working with cybersecurity, risk, compliance, control, portfolio, financial, resource, vendor, or delivery data to identify issues, assess impacts, track decisions, develop reporting, and contribute to process, control, or portfolio outcome improvement.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS – EDUCATION & PRIOR JOB EXPERIENCE
- Advanced education, coursework, or specialized training in cybersecurity, information security, risk management, compliance, audit, information systems, data analytics, finance, project/portfolio management, or a related technical or business discipline preferred.
- Experience in a specialized cybersecurity governance, risk, compliance, cyber portfolio management, work management, audit, or technology risk role with ownership for interpreting requirements, designing or improving processes, and providing recommendations to stakeholders preferred.
- Experience applying cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and control frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOX, SOC 2, CMMC, or similar standards to control mapping, assessments, evidence expectations, remediation activities, and governance practices preferred.
- Experience evaluating control design, operating effectiveness, risk impact, compliance gaps, exceptions, issues, remediation plans, and supporting evidence using structured analysis and technical judgment preferred.
- Experience developing or maturing GRC operating practices, control libraries, assessment methods, workflow routines, intake and prioritization models, portfolio roadmaps, dashboards, decision materials, or governance forums preferred.
- Experience analyzing cybersecurity portfolio, financial, vendor, contractor, resource, delivery, or work management data to identify trends, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations preferred.
SKILLS, LICENSES, AND CERTIFICATIONS
- Deep working knowledge of cybersecurity risk management, including risk identification, analysis prioritization, treatment, monitoring, and communication. Strong understanding of cybersecurity controls and the relationship between threats vulnerabilities, controls, business impact, and risk.
- Experience developing or improving cybersecurity risk methodologies, assessment approaches, risk and control libraries, issue and exception practices, or risk treatment processes.
- Ability to analyze complex technical and business information, develop defensible risk conclusions, and translate cyber risk into clear priorities, recommendations, and actions.
- Experience developing risk metrics, key risk indicators, measurement approaches, and reporting that provide meaningful insight into cybersecurity risk and support risk-informed decisions.
- Working knowledge of cybersecurity and risk frameworks such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST Risk Management Framework, NIST SP 800-30, ISO 27001/27005, or comparable industry frameworks and methodologies.
- Experience using cybersecurity, risk, control, and related data to identify relationships, trends, concentrations, and insights that improve risk prioritization and decision-making.
- Working knowledge of data modeling, data quality, integration, analytics, or visualization concepts used to support cybersecurity risk intelligence and reporting.
- Experience using or improving GRC platforms and related workflows, integrations, automation, and reporting capabilities to strengthen risk management processes and data quality.
- Demonstrated curiosity and ability to evaluate and apply AI, automation, and emerging technologies to advance cybersecurity risk management, including identifying practical opportunities to improve risk analysis, intelligence, workflows, and team effectiveness.
- Demonstrated ability to independently translate objectives into structured approaches, manage complex work, exercise technical judgment, and drive high-quality outcomes with limited day-to-day oversight.
- Strong communication and advisory skills, including the ability to explain cyber risk, technical considerations, control implications, and recommendations to technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
- Demonstrated curiosity and ability to evaluate emerging cybersecurity, risk, data, and technology capabilities and translate relevant developments into practical improvements. Relevant cybersecurity or risk management certifications preferred, such as CRISC, CISSP, CISM, CISA, or comparable certifications.
WHAT YOU'LL GET
Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:
- Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
- Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
- Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
- 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
- Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Member Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more.
FEEL FREE TO BE YOURSELF AT AMERICAN
From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Team Member Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.
Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.
INTRODUCTION
Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS JOB
- As one diverse, high-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivaled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline.
- As a Cybersecurity GRC Engineer/Sr. Engineer focused on Risk Management, you will help shape and advance cybersecurity risk management capabilities that translate technical risk into prioritized business decisions and action. You will apply expertise in cyber risk analysis, risk and control practices, risk intelligence, metrics, data, and GRC technology to strengthen how cybersecurity risks are identified, analyzed, treated, monitored, and communicated. You will have the opportunity to engineer scalable risk management practices and data-driven capabilities that help American anticipate evolving threats, technologies, regulatory expectations, and business needs.
As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.
- Apply Specialized GRC Expertise: Interpret cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory requirements, enterprise policies, risk methodologies, and control expectations to translate complex requirements into practical governance, risk, compliance, and portfolio management practices.
- Design and Mature GRC Processes and Control Practices: Develop, refine, and operationalize policies, standards, procedures, control mappings, assessment methods, evidence expectations, and governance routines that improve consistency, quality, and defensibility across cybersecurity activities.
- Perform Advanced Risk, Control, and Compliance Analysis: Evaluate risks, control gaps, compliance obligations, remediation plans, exceptions, issues, and supporting evidence to determine impact, root cause, prioritization, and appropriate risk response.
- Exercise Independent Technical Judgment: Develop recommendations, influence operating practices, and determine how GRC, portfolio, work management, and financial governance activities should be structured, measured, and executed to improve cyber risk outcomes.
- Lead Technical Execution for Assessments, Audits, and Regulatory Requests: Coordinate and execute control assessments, audit responses, evidence reviews, regulatory requests, testing activities, and issue validation by applying technical judgment to determine whether control design and operating effectiveness are supported.
- Build and Maintain Cyber Portfolio Operating Practices: Develop and manage work intake, prioritization methods, roadmaps, delivery plans, dependency tracking, decision logs, status reporting, portfolio health views, and execution routines that enable cybersecurity leaders to manage commitments and outcomes.
- Analyze Financial, Resource, and Delivery Information: Evaluate budgets, forecasts, run-rate trends, resource plans, vendor and contractor spend, purchase activity, and delivery commitments to identify gaps, tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities to improve portfolio decision-making.
- Develop Metrics, Insights, and Executive-Ready Reporting: Define, validate, analyze, and communicate cybersecurity, compliance, portfolio, financial, and operational metrics that support leadership visibility, risk-informed decisions, and measurable improvement.
- Serve as a Subject Matter Resource: Provide guidance to cybersecurity, technology, business, finance, sourcing, legal, privacy, and audit stakeholders on GRC requirements, control expectations, portfolio processes, work management practices, and financial governance activities.
- Drive Continuous Improvement and Automation Opportunities: Identify and implement improvements to workflows, tools, templates, data quality, reporting, documentation, and operating practices to increase efficiency, reduce manual effort, and improve the quality of GRC and portfolio management outcomes.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS – EDUCATION & PRIOR JOB EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Risk Management, Compliance, Audit, Finance, Data Analytics, Project/Portfolio Management, or a related technical or business discipline, or equivalent experience/training.
- Experience applying cybersecurity governance, risk, compliance, control, technology risk, audit, cyber portfolio management, work management, or financial management practices to interpret requirements, analyze information, coordinate execution, and support risk-informed stakeholder decisions.
- Experience working with cybersecurity, risk, compliance, control, portfolio, financial, resource, vendor, or delivery data to identify issues, assess impacts, track decisions, develop reporting, and contribute to process, control, or portfolio outcome improvement.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS – EDUCATION & PRIOR JOB EXPERIENCE
- Advanced education, coursework, or specialized training in cybersecurity, information security, risk management, compliance, audit, information systems, data analytics, finance, project/portfolio management, or a related technical or business discipline preferred.
- Experience in a specialized cybersecurity governance, risk, compliance, cyber portfolio management, work management, audit, or technology risk role with ownership for interpreting requirements, designing or improving processes, and providing recommendations to stakeholders preferred.
- Experience applying cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and control frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOX, SOC 2, CMMC, or similar standards to control mapping, assessments, evidence expectations, remediation activities, and governance practices preferred.
- Experience evaluating control design, operating effectiveness, risk impact, compliance gaps, exceptions, issues, remediation plans, and supporting evidence using structured analysis and technical judgment preferred.
- Experience developing or maturing GRC operating practices, control libraries, assessment methods, workflow routines, intake and prioritization models, portfolio roadmaps, dashboards, decision materials, or governance forums preferred.
- Experience analyzing cybersecurity portfolio, financial, vendor, contractor, resource, delivery, or work management data to identify trends, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations preferred.
SKILLS, LICENSES, AND CERTIFICATIONS
- Deep working knowledge of cybersecurity risk management, including risk identification, analysis prioritization, treatment, monitoring, and communication. Strong understanding of cybersecurity controls and the relationship between threats vulnerabilities, controls, business impact, and risk.
- Experience developing or improving cybersecurity risk methodologies, assessment approaches, risk and control libraries, issue and exception practices, or risk treatment processes.
- Ability to analyze complex technical and business information, develop defensible risk conclusions, and translate cyber risk into clear priorities, recommendations, and actions.
- Experience developing risk metrics, key risk indicators, measurement approaches, and reporting that provide meaningful insight into cybersecurity risk and support risk-informed decisions.
- Working knowledge of cybersecurity and risk frameworks such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST Risk Management Framework, NIST SP 800-30, ISO 27001/27005, or comparable industry frameworks and methodologies.
- Experience using cybersecurity, risk, control, and related data to identify relationships, trends, concentrations, and insights that improve risk prioritization and decision-making.
- Working knowledge of data modeling, data quality, integration, analytics, or visualization concepts used to support cybersecurity risk intelligence and reporting.
- Experience using or improving GRC platforms and related workflows, integrations, automation, and reporting capabilities to strengthen risk management processes and data quality.
- Demonstrated curiosity and ability to evaluate and apply AI, automation, and emerging technologies to advance cybersecurity risk management, including identifying practical opportunities to improve risk analysis, intelligence, workflows, and team effectiveness.
- Demonstrated ability to independently translate objectives into structured approaches, manage complex work, exercise technical judgment, and drive high-quality outcomes with limited day-to-day oversight.
- Strong communication and advisory skills, including the ability to explain cyber risk, technical considerations, control implications, and recommendations to technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
- Demonstrated curiosity and ability to evaluate emerging cybersecurity, risk, data, and technology capabilities and translate relevant developments into practical improvements. Relevant cybersecurity or risk management certifications preferred, such as CRISC, CISSP, CISM, CISA, or comparable certifications.
WHAT YOU'LL GET
Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:
- Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
- Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
- Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
- 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
- Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Member Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more.
FEEL FREE TO BE YOURSELF AT AMERICAN
From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Team Member Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.
Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship in Governance Risk And Compliance
Lead with your degree field alignment
GRC roles require a direct connection between your degree and the position. Emphasize coursework in risk management, auditing, cybersecurity, or compliance law in your resume so hiring managers and USCIS can clearly see the specialty occupation link.
Target employers with established compliance teams
Large financial institutions, healthcare systems, and technology companies maintain dedicated GRC departments and are more experienced with OPT work authorization. Smaller firms often lack the infrastructure to support international candidates through compliance-heavy hiring processes.
Pursue relevant certifications early
Certifications like CISA, CRISC, or CompTIA Security+ strengthen your GRC candidacy and signal commitment to the field. Employers in heavily regulated industries view certifications as evidence of specialized knowledge, which also reinforces your specialty occupation argument during OPT.
Clarify your OPT timeline upfront
GRC hiring cycles at banks and regulated firms move slowly. Be transparent about your OPT end date and H-1B visa eligibility from the first conversation so employers can assess sponsorship feasibility before investing significant time in the interview process.
Focus on regulated industries for H-1B pathways
Financial services, healthcare, and government contractors sponsor more GRC professionals than most other sectors. These industries operate under mandatory compliance frameworks, making GRC roles genuinely indispensable rather than discretionary, which strengthens the business case for sponsoring your H-1B.
Frame your international background as a compliance asset
Experience navigating multiple regulatory environments, foreign data privacy laws, or cross-border transactions is genuinely valuable in GRC. Articulate how your international perspective contributes to a firm's risk management capabilities rather than treating your background as a neutral biographical fact.
Governance Risk And Compliance OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do governance, risk, and compliance roles qualify as specialty occupations for OPT?
Most GRC roles qualify as specialty occupations because they typically require a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as information systems, finance, accounting, or cybersecurity. Job titles like compliance analyst, risk analyst, and GRC specialist have been approved under this standard. The key is that the role must require your specific degree field, not just any bachelor's degree.
Can I use STEM OPT extension for a GRC job?
Yes, if your degree is in a STEM-designated field such as management information systems, computer science, finance, or applied mathematics, and the GRC role is substantively tied to that field. Cybersecurity GRC and technology risk roles most reliably qualify. GRC positions focused purely on legal or policy compliance may be harder to connect to a STEM degree for extension purposes.
Which industries hire the most GRC professionals willing to sponsor visas?
Financial services, healthcare, and enterprise technology are the strongest sectors for GRC hiring and visa sponsorship. Banks, insurance companies, and hospital networks operate under strict regulatory mandates that require permanent GRC staffing. Government contractors and global consulting firms are also reliable sponsors, as GRC work is core to their service delivery rather than an optional function.
How do I find GRC jobs where employers are open to OPT candidates?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for employers open to sponsoring F-1 OPT students, which removes the guesswork of applying to roles where your authorization status will disqualify you. Searching by GRC-related job titles on Migrate Mate surfaces positions from employers already familiar with OPT work authorization requirements.
What should I include on my resume to show I qualify for a GRC specialty occupation?
List your degree field prominently and connect it directly to GRC functions. Include relevant coursework such as audit methodology, risk frameworks, data privacy regulations, or financial controls. Certifications, internship experience involving compliance tools like GRC platforms, and any work involving regulatory reporting all reinforce that your role requires specialized academic preparation rather than general business knowledge.