[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Paddle logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2025/08/28ca3645-221.png)](https://jobicy.com/company/paddle.md)[Paddle](https://jobicy.com/company/paddle.md) # Compliance & Risk Lead (Maternity Cover) Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/paddle.md)ShareRemote from[UK](https://jobicy.com/job-region/uk.md)SalaryUndisclosedDepartment[Legal & Compliance](https://jobicy.com/categories/legal.md)EmploymentContractExperienceDirectorPublished23 Oct 2026Apply before22 Nov 2026Listing views43Application actions3Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. Paddle is seeking a Compliance & Risk Lead for a maternity-cover engagement to lead its compliance function within a global payments business. The role manages compliance personnel and develops scalable monitoring, reporting, enterprise-risk, and incident-response frameworks. It requires strong practical knowledge of payments regulation, card-scheme rules, data protection, PSD2, and AML/KYC in a fintech or SaaS setting. The successful candidate will translate complex regulatory requirements and compliance data into clear actions and reports for executives, product teams, the Board, and regulators. The position is UK-based and remote eligible, with broad international operational scope. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 5/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a senior leadership role in a fast-growing payments environment with substantial regulatory, operational, and reputational exposure. It demands independent judgment across evolving international rules, high-risk incidents, and Board- and regulator-facing reporting. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$145,000US market range (per year)$120k–$180k0$198.00k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. No employer salary was disclosed. Estimated annual USD market compensation for a senior payments compliance and risk leader is $120,000–$180,000, with an estimated midpoint of $145,000; these are AI estimates, not verified salary research. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. 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I would prioritise automated indicators for higher-risk controls, establish exception workflows and escalation thresholds, and use periodic testing to validate control effectiveness. Clear dashboards and a regular governance cadence would ensure management can act on emerging trends. Describe how you would report compliance risks to both the Board and operational teams. I would tailor the same underlying evidence to the audience. Board reporting would focus on material risk exposure, control effectiveness, trends, incidents, decisions required, and remediation progress, while operational reporting would provide actionable detail, accountable owners, deadlines, and relevant metrics. In both cases, I would use concise language and clearly distinguish confirmed issues from emerging risks. What is your approach to investigating a high-risk customer complaint or potential compliance breach? I would triage the issue immediately according to impact, regulatory deadlines, customer harm, and potential legal exposure. I would preserve evidence, establish an investigation team with legal and operational stakeholders, document facts and decisions, identify containment actions, and assess notification requirements. The final report would explain root cause, impact, remediation, and preventive control improvements. How do PSD2, AML/KYC obligations, and card-scheme rules affect a merchant-of-record model? They require a coordinated compliance framework spanning customer and merchant onboarding, transaction monitoring, consumer protection, data handling, reporting, and dispute management. A merchant-of-record business must translate these obligations into clear product requirements, operational controls, monitoring evidence, and escalation routes. I would also maintain a horizon-scanning process to identify regulatory or scheme-rule changes before they create gaps. How would you lead and develop a compliance team during a fixed-term maternity-cover assignment? I would quickly establish the team’s current priorities, control ownership, delivery risks, and development needs. I would create transparent operating rhythms, provide clear decision rights, and make sure critical monitoring and reporting activities have documented processes and backup coverage. I would also leave durable documentation, metrics, and handover plans so the team remains effective beyond the assignment. Opportunity details ## About this role. What do we do? Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better. We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 10,000 software sellers in 300 territories globally. The Role: As Compliance & Risk Lead, you are a key member of Paddle’s compliance team, reporting to our VP, Compliance. You work closely with legal, product, and operational teams to ensure Paddle remains compliant with global payments and fintech regulations as we scale rapidly. The Paddle compliance function is critical to our operations and growth, enabling innovation while maintaining trust with customers and regulators. You lead the compliance team and collaborate across teams, bringing expertise in payments compliance, risk management, and reporting. You are instrumental in building robust systems to track, analyze, and report on compliance, ensuring Paddle stays ahead in a dynamic regulatory landscape. The role is based in the UK but global in scope, reflecting Paddle’s international reach. What you’ll do: You will partner with our Compliance, legal and other teams across Paddle to integrate compliance into our operations, with a heightened focus on building scalable monitoring and reporting: * Team leadership: Hire, onboard, and manage compliance professionals, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team to support Paddle’s global compliance needs. * Payments compliance: Develop and refine compliance policies and procedures to ensure adherence to global card scheme rules, consumer protection laws and payments regulation (as applicable). * Compliance monitoring: Design and oversee simple tech-enabled monitoring programs to track compliance with internal policies and external regulations, using data-driven tools to identify trends and potential risks proactively. * Reporting: Deliver compliance reporting for internal stakeholders at all levels (e.g. senior leadership, the Board, product teams) and external regulators, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and clarity to demonstrate Paddle’s regulatory adherence. * Risk management: Develop and manage Paddle’s enterprise risk management program, collaborating with teams across the business to identify risks, embed controls and report on their effectiveness. * Regulatory research: Work with the legal team to stay ahead of evolving payments, consumer and fintech regulations, advising on their impact and integrating findings into monitoring and reporting frameworks. * Incident response: Lead investigations into high-risk complaints and/or compliance breaches, coordinating with legal and operational teams to resolve issues, and produce detailed incident reports for internal review and regulatory submission as needed. We’d love to hear from you: * You have 6-8 years of compliance experience, ideally in payments and/or in fast-growing businesses, with a proven ability to implement and manage scalable monitoring and reporting systems. * You have deep expertise in data protection, card scheme rules and payments regulation (e.g., PSD2, AML/KYC) and hands-on experience in fintech or SaaS environments. * You’ve worked in a high-growth scale-up, building compliance frameworks that emphasize real-time monitoring and detailed reporting to support rapid expansion. * You’re an exceptional communicator, able to distill compliance data into concise, actionable insights for diverse audiences—from engineers to regulators. * You thrive in a fast-paced environment, balancing proactive monitoring with the ability to respond swiftly to competing demands. * You’re detail-oriented, with a passion for ensuring compliance is not just met but demonstrably provable. Everyone is welcome at Paddle At Paddle, we’re committed to removing invisible barriers, both for our customers and within our own teams. We recognise and celebrate that every Paddler is unique and we welcome every individual perspective. As an inclusive employer, we don’t care if, or where, you studied, what you look like or where you’re from. We’re more interested in your craft, curiosity, passion for learning and what you’ll add to our culture. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every part of the job ad, especially if you’re part of an underrepresented group. Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better support you through the application process and in the workplace. We will do everything we can to support any accommodations needed. We’re committed to building a diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their authentic self. Let’s grow together. Why you’ll love working at Paddle We are a diverse, growing group of Paddlers across the globe who pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative and respectful culture. We live and breathe our values, which are: Paddle for others Paddle together Paddle simply We offer a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare and well-being initiatives. We are a ‘digital-first’ company, which means you can work remotely, from one of our stylish hubs, or even a bit of both! We offer all team members unlimited holidays and enhanced parental leave. We invest in learning and will help you with your personal development via constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning fund, and regular internal and external training. Show more [Apply now >](https://jobicy.com/jobs/156517-compliance-risk-lead-maternity-cover.md) > Annual salary information is not provided for this position. 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