Global Compliance & Risk Leader — Remote

Paddle group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Retirement plans

Private healthcare

Well-being initiatives

Unlimited holidays

Annual learning fund

Job summary

Paddle is seeking a Compliance & Risk Lead to join the UK-based team, with a global remit as the company scales. You will lead the compliance function, shaping policies, monitoring, and reporting across payments regulations and data protection.

This role collaborates with legal, product and operations to ensure ongoing regulatory adherence. You will build scalable monitoring, drive incident investigations, and communicate insights to engineers, regulators, and leadership while supporting

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of compliance experience in payments/fintech.
• Deep expertise in data protection, card scheme rules, and payments regulation (e.g., PSD2, AML/KYC).
• Experience building real-time monitoring and reporting in high-growth scale-ups.
• Exceptional communication to distill compliance data for engineers, regulators and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Team leadership: hire, onboard, and manage compliance professionals.
• Payments compliance: develop and refine policies to ensure adherence to global card scheme rules and regulations.
• Compliance monitoring: design tech-enabled monitoring programs to track compliance and identify risks.
• Reporting: deliver compliance reporting for internal stakeholders and external regulators.
• Risk management: develop and manage the enterprise risk program with controls and reporting.
• Regulatory research: stay ahead of evolving payments, consumer and fintech regs and integrate findings.
• Incident response: lead investigations into high-risk breaches and produce detailed incident reports.

Skills

Compliance leadership

Payments compliance

Data protection

Regulatory knowledge

Communication

Job description

Paddle is seeking a Compliance & Risk Lead to join the UK-based team, with a global remit as the company scales. You will lead the compliance function, shaping policies, monitoring, and reporting across payments regulations and data protection.

This role collaborates with legal, product and operations to ensure ongoing regulatory adherence. You will build scalable monitoring, drive incident investigations, and communicate insights to engineers, regulators, and leadership while supporting