Global Compliance Lead — Cross-Functional & Audit-Driven

Cerence AI; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 124,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus opportunity

Insurance coverage (medical, dental,視全

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Company RRSP contribution

Equity awards

Remote or hybrid work available

Job summary

Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC and www.cerence.com) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world.

Spun out from Nuance in October 2019, Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world's leading automakers. As Cerence grows, we seek a Senior Manager of Compliance to own multi-domain programs across quality, security, privacy, and legal/regulatory.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in compliance, risk, quality, security, or regulatory roles in software/automotive/reg tech.
• Experience owning multiple compliance domains.
• Strong understanding of ISO-based management systems and audits.
• Experience interfacing with internal audits, external auditors and regulators.
• Translate legal and regulatory requirements into operational controls.
• Proven stakeholder management across Legal, Engineering, Product, Security, Finance, and Operations.
• Systems thinker who understands how compliance, engineering, security and finance interlock.
• Pragmatic and risk-based, not checkbox-driven.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate a single, integrated compliance management system across domains.
• Define and maintain enterprise compliance policies, standards, controls, and evidence frameworks.
• Establish governance with cross-functional RACI across Legal, Security, Quality, HSE, Product, Eng, Finance.
• Drive awareness of regional regulatory obligations (EU, US, APAC, China).
• Maintain customer facing Trust Center.
• Chair compliance workgroup and plan audits.
• Lead internal/external audits and drive corrective actions.
• Ensure compatibility with OEM contracts and product approvals.
• Collaborate with Security, Product, Engineering on security/cyber frameworks.
• Support GDPR/UK GDPR privacy compliance, DPIAs and data flow records.
• Monitor regulatory change and translate into controls with legal.
• Serve as primary interface to CFO Internal Audit and support SOX-adjacent testing.
• Maintain consolidated enterprise compliance risk view and report to leadership.
• Convert local laws to actionable requirements (China GB44495, Germany, EU CRA).

Skills

Compliance management

ISO-based systems

Audit coordination

Regulatory liaison

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk-based thinking

Executive communication

Job description

Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC and www.cerence.com) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world.

Spun out from Nuance in October 2019, Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world's leading automakers. As Cerence grows, we seek a Senior Manager of Compliance to own multi-domain programs across quality, security, privacy, and legal/regulatory.