Head of Compliance (12 month FTC)

The role

You will lead the compliance team and partner with legal, product, and operational teams to integrate compliance into operations. You will focus on building scalable monitoring and reporting systems to ensure adherence to global payments and fintech regulations.

What you will do

• Hire, onboard, and manage compliance professionals.
• Develop and refine compliance policies and procedures for card scheme rules, consumer protection laws and payments regulation.
• Design and oversee tech-enabled monitoring programs to track compliance.
• Deliver compliance reporting for internal stakeholders and external regulators.
• Develop and manage the enterprise risk management program.
• Work with the legal team on regulatory research regarding payments, consumer and fintech regulations.
• Lead investigations into high-risk complaints and compliance breaches.

Required qualifications

• 6-8 years of compliance experience.
• Deep expertise in data protection, card scheme rules and payments regulation (e.g., PSD2, AML/KYC).
• Hands-on experience in fintech or SaaS environments.
• Ability to implement and manage scalable monitoring and reporting systems.
• Experience working in a high-growth scale-up building compliance frameworks.
• Exceptional communicator able to distill compliance data for diverse audiences.
• Detail-oriented.

Nice to have

• Experience in payments and/or in fast-growing businesses

Benefits

• Attractive salaries
• Stock options
• Retirement plans
• Private healthcare
• Well-being initiatives
• Unlimited holidays
• Enhanced parental leave
• Annual learning fund
• Regular internal and external training

About the company

Paddle is a Merchant of Record that provides payment infrastructure for digital product companies. They serve over 10,000 software sellers in 300 territories globally.