Product Compliance Manager, Square
Bay Area, CA$142.6k - $257.6kfull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Embedded compliance advisor for Square's Core and Audiences product suites, partnering with Product, Engineering, Design, and Legal to define launch requirements, identify controls, and provide ongoing compliance support throughout the product lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the embedded compliance advisor for Square's Core and Audiences product teams, partnering with Product, Engineering, Design, and Counsel to provide proactive compliance guidance on new products, features, and market expansions
- Lead product compliance reviews for new launches and feature changes, identifying requirements early in the development lifecycle and closing gaps in existing controls with clear remediation plans
- Own and maintain the compliance risk and control inventory for your product areas, including ongoing risk assessments and control effectiveness evaluations
- Drive key compliance program activities including issues management, testing and monitoring, policies and procedures development, and complaints management
- Support regulatory examinations and audits by coordinating responses, gathering evidence, and managing remediation of findings
- Monitor regulatory change across relevant domains and assess impact to your product portfolio
- Translate legal and regulatory requirements into practical, well-documented compliance controls that balance risk mitigation with product usability
- Develop and report on compliance metrics that provide meaningful visibility into the compliance health of your product areas
Qualifications
- 8+ years in the compliance industry, with direct experience in payments, merchant acquiring, or commerce platform compliance
- Strong regulatory knowledge, specifically AML/BSA, Payment Card and Network rules, Consumer Protection, Privacy, and electronic marketing and communication regulations
- Experience as an embedded compliance partner to Product and Engineering teams in agile environments
- Proven ability to translate legal and regulatory requirements into actionable controls, policies, and procedures
- Experience with core compliance program activities: risk assessments, issues management, testing and monitoring, regulatory exam support, and regulatory change management
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate requirements to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to work in a matrixed environment across Compliance, Legal, Product, Engineering, Design, Risk, and International teams
- Metrics-driven approach to measure compliance program effectiveness
Skills
Required:Regulatory complianceProduct and engineering collaborationRisk assessmentsRegulatory exams supportPolicy and procedure development
Benefits
- Remote work
- medical insurance
- flexible time off
- retirement savings plans
- modern family planning
- employee benefits (see company page)
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.
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