Senior Manager Compliance Governance & Regulatory Affairs

Location: On-site in Gilching, Bavaria, Germany, with the option to work remotely one flexible day per week. Company shuttle service is available from Laim in Munich.

Company

hirify.global is a European deep-tech company developing and producing integrated hardware, software, and AI-powered unmanned systems for defense, security, public institutions, and industrial and infrastructure customers across air, land, and maritime domains.

What you will do

• Own and continuously improve the Group Compliance Management System, including governance, policies, standards, responsibilities, and supporting processes.
• Lead compliance risk assessments and regulatory change management, translating new requirements into responsibilities, implementation plans, and controls.
• Establish risk-based compliance monitoring, KPIs, management reporting, issue tracking, and remediation follow-up.
• Coordinate data protection governance across the Group with relevant stakeholders and the Data Protection Officer.
• Provide governance oversight for selected regulatory areas, including trade compliance, escalation, and management transparency.
• Advise management and coordinate regulatory assessments, audits, assurance readiness, and remediation.

Requirements

• Relevant experience in compliance governance, regulatory compliance, or compliance program management, ideally in an international and highly regulated environment.
• A relevant degree or professional qualification, with the ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into pragmatic governance, processes, and controls.
• Solid experience with compliance management systems, including risk assessments, policy governance, monitoring, controls, regulatory change, and management reporting.
• Digital mindset and affinity for technology, with the ability to use AI, data, and modern compliance tools to improve processes, monitoring, and reporting.
• Strong analytical, project management, and stakeholder skills, including the ability to independently drive complex cross-functional initiatives and advise senior management.
• Pragmatic, hands-on, and ownership-driven mindset.
• Fluent English.

Nice to have

• Experience in defense, aerospace, government contracting, or another highly regulated industry.
• German language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Trust-based flexible working hours with responsibility for work-life balance.
• Mobile work option for one flexible day per week.
• Company pension scheme.
• EGYM Wellpass fitness subsidy, bike leasing, corporate discounts, and a sponsored daily lunch budget.
• Employee events and an inclusive workplace that values diversity and different perspectives.
• Company shuttle service between Laim in Munich and the Gilching location.