Director, Compliance

The role

You will build and run the compliance function from scratch. You will own the corporate compliance program and ensure compliance with FAR, DFARS, and agency supplements for government work.

What you will do

• Design and run the corporate compliance program including risk assessment, policies, training, and monitoring.
• Cover ethics, business conduct, conflicts of interest, anti-corruption, trade, supply chain, and data privacy.
• Run internal investigations and manage audits from intake to remediation.
• Ensure compliance with FAR, DFARS, and agency supplement obligations.
• Build and maintain documentation and evidence for compliance.
• Lead audit readiness and response for DCAA, DCMA, CPSR, and Inspector General inquiries.
• Partner with the Head of IT on CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 compliance.
• Hire, develop, and lead the compliance team.
• Manage the function's budget, tooling, and outside counsel and vendor relationships.
• Report program health and risk to the executive team and Board.

Required qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and 10+ years of experience in compliance, ethics, government contracts, internal audit, or regulatory legal practice, or an advanced degree (JD, LLM, MBA, or MS) and 8+ years of t
• Experience designing, implementing, or running a corporate compliance program, or a major component of one.
• People-management experience.
• Experience presenting compliance matters to an executive team, an audit committee, or a board of directors.
• Ability to travel approximately 15 to 20%, including project sites, government installations, supplier facilities, and industry events.

Nice to have

• Experience applying the FAR and DFARS in a contractor environment
• Experience preparing for or responding to a U.S. Government audit, review, or investigation
• Experience at a hardware, manufacturing, aerospace, space, or construction company that performs government contracts
• Experience administering U.S. export controls and sanctions, including ITAR, restricted party screening, and foreign national access controls
• Experience supporting MILCON, NASA, or intelligence community programs
• Experience at a venture-backed or high-growth company
• Experience standing up a compliance program from the ground up and then running it
• Juris Doctor with active bar membership in good standing, or an MBA
• CCEP, CCEP-I, CFE, CIA, NCMA CFCM or CPCM, or an export compliance credential such as ECoP or CUSECO
• An active or previously held U.S. Government security clearance

About the company

ICON builds robotic systems that construct homes and multi-story buildings. The company holds more than $360M in government contracts across the Army, Air Force, DARPA, and NASA.