Director of Compliance (Fintech)

Location: New York, NY or San Francisco, CA

Salary: $255,000–$315,000 estimated base salary, plus equity

Company

hirify.global is a digital banking platform that helps self-made business owners manage cash flow and operate their businesses with greater financial clarity and control.

What you will do

• Build and own the compliance program across AML, sanctions, KYB/CDD, regulatory compliance, policies, risk assessments, and controls.
• Lead governance for investigations, suspicious activity reporting, escalations, issue management, remediation, monitoring, testing, and reporting.
• Own the relationship with hirify.global's sponsor bank, including audits, examinations, issue resolution, product approvals, and control-environment reporting.
• Design an evidence-driven compliance infrastructure using unified decision data, entity resolution, AI, and automation.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Operations to embed compliance requirements into products and features from the design stage.
• Hire, coach, and develop the Compliance organization while reporting program health, emerging risks, and remediation progress to senior leadership and the board.

Requirements

• 8+ years of compliance experience in fintech, banking, or payments, including leadership of a compliance function or major pillar.
• Experience building compliance programs, policies, and control frameworks from the ground up.
• Direct experience managing sponsor bank, regulator, or examiner relationships.
• Strong understanding of compliance metrics, monitoring systems, decisioning platforms, data pipelines, and evidence-based control effectiveness.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and growing compliance teams in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Active use of AI tools and interest in applying AI to compliance operations.

Nice to have

• Experience with charter applications, second sponsor bank diligence, or banking-as-a-service program structuring.
• Familiarity with Unit21, Sardine, Alloy, Middesk, Hawk, or similar compliance and financial-crimes tooling.
• Experience across deposits, cards, ACH, RDC, acquiring, or credit products.
• Experience joining an early-stage fintech and helping it scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomy and ownership over complex, high-impact compliance challenges.
• Strong focus on reinvention, direct feedback, measurable outcomes, and continuous improvement.
• AI is embedded into working practices and operational scaling.
• Work is focused on helping small businesses thrive while protecting banking partnerships and the license to operate.
• Employment offers are conditional on a successful background check and employment verification.

Hiring process

• Talent team video interview followed by a video interview with the Head of Risk.
• Take-home case study and discussion with Risk leadership, followed by a cross-functional interview with Product, Engineering, or Operations.
• Final 45-minute in-person interview with a member of the Executive team.