Compliance Program Lead

Apptad Inc; North Carolina; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptad Inc. is seeking a Compliance CRA Program Lead to convert global cyber regulations into a sequenced technical plan for internal teams to execute. You'll draft directions and track delivery, working hand-in-hand with the Product Manager who owns the broader roadmap.

Ideal candidates translate regulatory needs into concrete platform requirements, manage cross-functional stakeholders, and maintain delivery schedules across multiple engineering teams. AI-driven planning is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or demonstrated equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated fluency using AI as a default for research, planning, and writing.
• Experience in a technical program management, technical lead, or similar hybrid role.
• Experience with security, compliance, or regulatory requirements (SBOMs, vulnerability disclosure, audit documentation). Direct CRA experience is a plus.
• Track record working closely with a product manager and coordinating with other PMs and stakeholders.
• Strong grasp of software architecture to draft technically credible proposals.

Responsibilities

• Draft the CRA program's technical roadmap and execution plan as requirements evolve.
• Translate regulatory requirements into concrete technical proposals for the platform.
• Drive engineering tracking for the CRA program and surface risks to keep delivery on schedule.
• Represent CRA in meetings with legal, compliance, and engineering leadership to ensure shared understanding.
• Coordinate CRA work with the core platform roadmap and sequence it against other initiatives.
• Unblock engineers by facilitating progress and maintaining momentum.

Skills

AI-driven planning

Regulatory-to-technical translation

Cross-functional collaboration

Delivery tracking

Stakeholder management

Technical proposal drafting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Roadmapping tools

Requirements management

Job description

Job Description

Role: Compliance CRA - Program Lead

Customers are looking for a Program Lead to turn global cyber regulations into a concrete, sequenced technical plan for their internal teams to execute against, and to drive that plan through delivery. The person will be hand-in-glove with customer Product Manager, who owns the broader roadmap and lifecycle. You will draft the technical directions and track delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Draft the technical roadmap and execution plan for CRA compliance and adjust it as requirements evolve.
• Translate regulatory requirements into concrete technical proposals: what the platform needs to capture or expose for SBOMs, vulnerability handling, audit documentation.
• Drive engineering tracking for the CRA program. Assign-and-track work, surface risks, keep delivery on schedule.
• Represent CRA in meetings and stakeholder conversations with legal, compliance, other platform teams, and engineering leadership, so requirements are understood once and built once.
• Coordinate with the Product Manager who owns our core platform to sequence CRA work against everything else on that roadmap.
• Unblock the engineers implementing the work day-to-day. You don't manage them, but you keep them moving.

Who You Are

AI-native in how you work, even outside of code. You default using AI to track requirements, draft technical proposals and roadmaps, and synthesize stakeholder input, not do it by hand.

Comfortable bringing order to genuine ambiguity, where requirements are still being written and no precedent exists yet.

Experienced translating a regulatory or compliance requirement into a technical plan. Doesn't have to be CRA specifically, but you've done this kind of translation before.

Comfortable being the face of a program: running meetings and managing stakeholders you don't manage, without someone else in the room.

Technically credible that your draft proposals hold up to engineering scrutiny.

Organized enough to own delivery tracking for a multi-team initiative without letting things slip.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any field, or demonstrated equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated fluency using AI as a default part of how you research, plan, and write.
• Experience in a technical program management, technical lead, or similar hybrid role, owning both technical direction and delivery tracking for cross-functional or ambiguous initiatives.
• Experience with security, compliance, or regulatory requirements (SBOMs, vulnerability disclosure, secure-by-design, audit do cumentation). Direct CRA experience is a plus, not required.
• Track record working closely with a product manager as a technical or program counterpart, including coordinating with other PMs and stakeholders outside your immediate team.
• Strong enough grasp of software architecture to draft technical proposals that engineers and the PM can trust, even without owning final sign-off.