Justworks
Senior Program Manager, Compliance
New York, New York · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$121k-$151kDetected 6 days ago
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About the role
- We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
- We're helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business.
- We're data-driven and never stop iterating.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain an integrated view of Product Compliance priorities, initiatives, milestones, dependencies, and risks.
- Partner with Product Compliance leadership to prioritize work based on regulatory risk, business impact, dependencies, and available capacity.
- Drive initiatives through completion and ensure identified issues are tracked to sustainable resolution.
- Drive program structure, planning, coordination, execution, and escalation while partnering with subject matter experts who retain responsibility for substantive compliance decisions.
- Develop repeatable operating rhythms that strengthen accountability and transparency across the portfolio.
- Create clear mechanisms for surfacing risks, decisions, and areas requiring leadership or cross-functional support.
- Partner with Product Compliance leadership and subject matter experts to strengthen the operating model, including clarity of roles, responsibilities, and ownership.
- Improve documentation and business continuity across critical compliance processes and support sustainable control implementation.
- Develop meaningful measures of compliance performance, risk, and execution, while reducing single points of failure across the function.
- Identify and help drive opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce manual and duplicate work, strengthen quality and controls, and improve regulatory response and execution.
Requirements
- You are equal parts strategic planner, program leader, and operational problem solver.
- You are comfortable partnering across Compliance, Operations, Product, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, Legal, Internal Audit, Security, and other teams to strengthen compliance while enabling the business to scale.
- 8+ years of program management, compliance operations, operational excellence, or related experience
- 5+ years leading complex cross-functional initiatives
- Experience working in a highly regulated environment such as payroll, HR technology, financial services, fintech, or a similarly complex industry
- Demonstrated experience translating complex regulatory, risk, operational, or control priorities into structured programs and executable plans
- Experience leading programs that require coordination across multiple business and technical functions
- Demonstrated success building roadmaps, governance processes, and executive reporting
- Experience working with risk, compliance, internal controls, audit, or remediation programs
- Strong ability to influence and drive outcomes across teams without direct authority
- Exceptional organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Ability to operate effectively through ambiguity and competing priorities
Compensation
- The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $121,000.00 - $151,000.00 per year.
Benefits
- Develop dashboards and executive reporting that provide visibility into portfolio health, remediation status, milestones, dependencies, compliance risks, control implementation, KPIs, and capacity considerations.
Company info
- At Justworks, you'll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
- We're helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We're data-driven and never stop iterating. If you'd like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we'd love to hear from you.
- We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
- Our Values
- At Justworks, you'll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community.
- We solve HR issues.
- If you'd like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we'd love to hear from you.
- We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks.
- These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
- If this sounds like you, you'll fit right in.
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