Compliance Program Manager
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$111.80-130.51 Hourly
Start Date:
10.20.2025
Join a forward-thinking organization that is at the forefront of its industry, shaping the future through innovation and robust operational excellence. As a Compliance Program Manager, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding our client’s operations and reputation by ensuring adherence to critical compliance obligations. Your expertise will directly impact the integrity of our client’s products and services, driving strategic initiatives that foster trust and uphold the highest standards of regulatory excellence.
This is an exceptional opportunity to leverage your advanced compliance knowledge to lead complex, cross-functional programs. You will be instrumental in translating ambiguous compliance goals into clear, measurable objectives, managing critical audit processes, and providing expert guidance to diverse teams. Your work will directly contribute to continuous improvement and the successful navigation of an evolving regulatory landscape, making a significant impact on the organization’s strategic objectives and long-term success.
**What You’ll Do:**
* Strategically identify, organize, and drive program activities and stakeholders to deliver compliance, operational, and technical improvements.
* Translate complex compliance goals into clear, measurable objectives and milestones, defining the effective level of program management required for each initiative.
* Independently determine program phasing and metrics to ensure continuous improvement, including optimizing resource stewardship and tracking progress through dashboards.
* Manage all phases of internal and external audits, including mandated program assessments, and lead the remediation process to successful completion.
* Provide expert compliance guidance to product, engineering, and legal teams, proactively identifying and addressing control deficiencies.
* Design and deliver comprehensive program communication plans, ensuring all stakeholders are aligned on progress, rationale for pivots, and key outcomes.
* Define, drive, and own program charters across multiple teams, outlining scope, timelines, OKRs, resourcing, and managing risks and dependencies for moderately complex programs.
* Develop detailed project plans that break down initiatives into discrete phases, align with stakeholder needs, identify risks and dependencies, and proactively address program constraints.
* Anticipate and manage change requirements, independently developing and executing change management rollout plans, monitoring progress, and resolving misalignments.
* Build trusted relationships with senior program stakeholders to enable effective decision-making, resolve prioritization conflicts, and proactively manage program escalations.
* Determine and collect necessary data for program governance, driving stakeholder decision-making, maintaining project trackers, and providing status reports.
* Identify and execute program tasks, proactively managing dependencies while upholding high standards of product quality, user trust, and ethical practices.
* Create automated processes to enhance program velocity and monitoring, and define robust program governance structures for mitigations, postmortems, and escalation reporting.
**What You’ll Bring:**
* Demonstrated proficiency in Program Management, with a strong focus on compliance-related programs.
* Proven skill in Continuous Improvement methodologies to enhance compliance processes and protocols.
* Strong proficiency in Communications Management, ensuring clear and consistent messaging on compliance requirements and program progress.
* Advanced compliance knowledge in frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC1/2/3, and other relevant standards.
* Proficiency in Portfolio Management (PgM/TPM) and Team Management.
* Expertise in Managing Organizational Change (PgM/TPM).
* Strong Planning (PgM/TPM) and Stakeholder Management (PgM/TPM) capabilities.
* Demonstrated ability in Execution and Governance (PgM/TPM).
* Solid Technical Judgment (TPM) and a strong sense of user understanding and empathy.
**About Aquent Talent:**
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Client Description
As a Compliance Program Manager, you will drive programs that ensure our organization meets its most critical compliance obligations. You will proactively identify, organize, and drive program activities and stakeholders in order to successfully deliver business, operational, and technical improvements.
You will have advanced compliance knowledge in frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC1/2/3 and others. You scope, phase, and drive ambiguous cross-functional and cross-organizational challenges including delivering downstream change management, alongside your stakeholder team. You ensure alignment of senior cross-functional and cross-organizational stakeholders. You have advanced knowledge of the domain of your program.
Responsibilities include:
- Translate ambiguous compliance goals into clear and measurable objectives/milestones. Determine the effective level of program management required of an initiative.
- Proactively identify, organize, and drive program activities and stakeholders in order to successfully deliver compliance, operational, and technical improvements.
- Independently determine program phasing and metrics that effectively address continuous improvement.
- Manage different phases of internal and external audits, including mandated program assessments, and drive through the remediation process.
- Provide expert compliance guidance to product, engineering, and legal teams, proactively identifying and addressing control deficiencies.
- Independently design and deliver comprehensive program communication plans, ensuring all stakeholders are aligned on progress and program pivots.
- Across multiple teams, independently define, drive, and own program charter(s) that address scope, and timeline, OKRs, resourcing and risks/dependencies of moderately complex programs. Translate ambiguous program goals into clear and measurable objectives/milestones. Determine the effective level of program management required of an initiative. Create project plans that break down a project into discrete phases aligned to the needs of stakeholders, include risks/dependencies and support proactive identification of program constraints.
- Independently determine program phasing and metrics that effectively address continuous improvement including Resource Stewardship. Optimize regular checkpoints and metrics dashboards. Ensure stakeholders are aligned on rationale for program pivots.
- Independently design and deliver optimized program communication plans including executive and key partner communications. Articulately represent the program across touchpoints.
- Anticipate change management requirements. Independently develop change management rollout plans for programs including impact analysis. Proactively drive pivots requiring change management, monitor progress of change management rollout, and resolve misalignments. Define future change management needs.
- Effectively build trusted relationships with senior program stakeholders to proactively enable effective decision making. Resolve prioritization misalignments with stakeholders. Proactively manage program escalations.
- Independently determine and collect data required to govern programs and effectively drive stakeholder decision-making. Independently maintain project trackers and status reports. Identify and execute on program tasks, including proactively managing dependencies, while incorporating Product Excellence values, Product Inclusion, and brand trust and reputation. Create automated processes to enhance velocity and monitoring. Define program governance structure by determining effective management of mitigations, postmortems, and escalation reports. drive effective program stakeholder meetings.
Minimum Role Qualifications
- Proficiency in Program Management, with a strong focus on compliance-related programs.
- Demonstrated skill in Continuous Improvement to enhance compliance processes and – protocols.
- Strong proficiency in Communications Management to ensure clear and consistent messaging on compliance requirements and program progress.
Proficiency is also required in:
– Portfolio Management (PgM/TPM)
– Team Management
– Continuous Improvement (PgM/TPM)
– Managing Organizational Change (PgM/TPM)
– Communications Management (PgM/TPM)
– Planning (PgM/TPM)
– Stakeholder Management (PgM/TPM)
– Execution and Governance (PgM/TPM)
– Technical Judgment (TPM)
– User understanding and empathy