Compliance Officer

https://drone-port.in/; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Drone Port is building a new drone aviation ecosystem in India and seeks a Compliance professional to oversee regulatory compliance, audits, and data protection obligations. You will maintain registers, manage airframe and pilot certifications, and handle insurance validity, filings, and audit readiness.

Fluent Tamil and English are required to ensure effective communication with regulators and stakeholders as the industry forms its early framework.

Qualifications

• Four to eight years in regulatory compliance, audit or legal operations.
• Working knowledge of Indian aviation regulation and unmanned aircraft rules.
• Familiarity with India’s data protection obligations.
• Meticulous documentation habits — the file is the job.
• Fluent Tamil and English.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the registers for airframe registration, pilot certification and insurance validity.
• Own regulatory filings and airspace permissions.
• Keep the compliance calendar ahead of every expiry rather than behind it.
• Run data-protection operations: consent records, handling procedures and periodic review.
• Audit stations and Parks, document findings and follow the remediation through.
• Keep audit files organised so an external auditor can navigate them in one sitting.
• Raise emerging regulatory risk early, with a recommendation attached.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Audit

Legal operations

Documentation

Tamil and English

Job description

The role

Flying agricultural drones commercially is a regulated activity, and a lapsed certificate grounds real work. You keep the registers for airframe registration, pilot certification and insurance, you run the privacy obligations we owe every farmer, and you keep the audit files in a state where an inspector could open them tomorrow.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain the registers for airframe registration, pilot certification and insurance validity
• Own regulatory filings and airspace permissions
• Keep the compliance calendar ahead of every expiry rather than behind it
• Run data-protection operations: consent records, handling procedures and periodic review
• Audit stations and Parks, document findings and follow the remediation through
• Keep audit files organised so an external auditor can navigate them in one sitting
• Raise emerging regulatory risk early, with a recommendation attached

Eligibility

• Four to eight years in regulatory compliance, audit or legal operations
• Working knowledge of Indian aviation regulation and unmanned aircraft rules
• Familiarity with India’s data protection obligations
• Meticulous documentation habits — the file is the job
• Fluent Tamil and English

What you get

• A compliance function built at the founding of a new industry, where the rules are still forming
• External counsel and auditors alongside you — you will not be working alone