Associate Director, Compliance Management System (CMS)

Location: New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Salt Lake City, UT. Hybrid role with on-site expectations of 2–3 days per week in a local office. Candidates outside these areas may be eligible for relocation assistance.

Salary: $176,000–$220,000 USD base salary for Tier 1 markets; $149,600–$187,000 USD for the Salt Lake City market. Compensation is adjusted by geographic pay zone.

Company

hirify.global is a growth-stage fintech company building a payment layer for household financial obligations, including bill visibility, payment splitting, hirify.globalible payment timing, and credit-building support.

What you will do

• Own Compliance Management System policies, standards, training, regulatory mapping, approvals, and completion tracking.
• Manage partner-bank program requests, recurring deliverables, governance calendars, committee materials, and control or issue remediation.
• Translate regulatory expectations into durable operational frameworks and controls that keep the organization audit- and exam-ready.
• Support regulatory exams and external audits by preparing evidence, coordinating responses, and tracking remediation to closure.
• Use reporting, automation, data, and AI-enabled tools to identify program gaps and improve policies, training, documentation, and controls.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Legal to embed compliance into systems, automation, data pipelines, and product launches.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in financial services or fintech compliance, with increasing program ownership and strategic scope.
• Strong experience building or operating Compliance Management Systems or large programmatic compliance functions.
• Deep expertise in consumer protection regulations, including Reg E, Reg Z, UDAAP, and FCRA.
• Experience supporting regulatory exams, external audits, or bank partner oversight in a regulated financial services environment.
• Experience identifying opportunities to use automation, data, and AI-enabled workflows in compliance operations, with the ability to validate AI output before relying on it.
• Strong analytical, structured problem-solving, communication, and influencing skills across regulators, bank partners, executives, and technical teams.
• Builder mindset focused on creating scalable systems rather than maintaining legacy processes.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice to have

• JD or advanced degree.

Culture & Benefits

• Senior individual contributor role with no direct reports, reporting to the Director of CMS Operations.
• Inclusive, collaborative environment focused on ownership, diverse perspectives, and solving difficult problems.
• Hybrid work with local office attendance required 2–3 days per week for roles based in New York, San Francisco, or Salt Lake City.
• Relocation assistance may be available for candidates outside the listed office areas.
• Employees work across the United States, Australia, Canada, and South America.