Compliance Specialist at The Planet Group

Compliance Specialist

Pay: Up to $65/hr depending on experience
Location: 100% Remote - must be local to the West Coast USA
Duration: 12 Months 

Our well-known Technology client is in search of a Compliance Specialist to join their team. This is a 40 hour/week 12 month contract position. This role is fully remote.

The compliance specialist (ie Compliance Support Lead) is responsible for managing strategy, direction, coordination and execution of a pilot program aimed to provide compliance support to strategic partners, specifically focused on integrity and privacy. Everyone is an owner on the team, so running a program or project also includes tracking and monitoring of project progress with regards to deadlines and needs, assisting in scheduling and logistical coordination, communicating frequently with team members and management, writing summaries and sending status updates. This is an exciting opportunity to work directly with 3rd parties (big name partners) supporting them and providing education and support regarding critical integrity and privacy requirements. The projects ultimately support the success of the developers in the ecosystem, ensuring they have the necessary information to stay compliant and ensure safe and positive experiences for users.

Compliance Specialist Responsibilities:

• Support various projects and programs aimed at improving operations and understanding of compliance requirements for third parties
• Directly interfaces with third parties and key strategic partners on a frequent basis, providing 1:1 support on important compliance requirements.
• Understand gaps and support in determining solutions, guiding decision making conversations and then leading implementation of best solutions
• Admin: coordinates deadlines on all deliverables, assists in coordinating schedules, take notes in meeting and updating roadmaps accordingly, keeping clear record of dependencies, deadlines and monitoring progress against those deadlines
• Monitor, assess, and communicate regulatory changes and emerging compliance risks and trends to key partners and stakeholders.
• Assist business, Compliance, and other control function partners in responding to client escalations by conducting, compiling and presenting research as required.
• Attends all staff meetings pertaining to project and lead meeting agenda and actioning follow ups
• Sending recaps and updates to key stakeholders to update progress on pilot
• Collaborate with various stakeholders - policy, legal, product, eng, data science, dev ops - providing solutions and ways to improve the operations and delivery of the compliance requirements to the partners.

Compliance Specialist Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical, liberal arts or business-related field
• Previous program management, customer service experience or operations experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, experience writing up short and concise posts, longer docs and making presentations, as well as verbally explaining complex requirements
• Comfortable leading meetings with key strategic partners and troubleshooting any issues
• Ability to present updates in large team meetings.
• Computer knowledge and various programs such as google suite, excel, project management tools like Asana
• Any previous experience working with developers, clients, third parties, integrity, compliance would be helpful in this role
• Works well independently and is a strong team player.
• Working in compliance or a regulatory environment (preferred)
• Experience in tech (preferred)