Director, AI Compliance & Assurance

Menlo Park (CA)

On-site

USD 227,000 - 287,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Meta is seeking a Director of Compliance & Assurance to lead its Compliance & Assurance Programs, partnering with Product, Engineering and Legal to embed risk controls early in product lifecycles. You will scale AI-driven monitoring, report to Boards and Regulators, and drive strategic mitigations for evolving obligations in a complex regulatory landscape.

The role requires extensive leadership experience in security, risk, and GRC, with a proven ability to navigate ambiguity and align senior

Qualifications

15+ years of experience leading security, technology risk, GRC, or trust & safety functions.
8+ years of experience managing and developing teams, including managers or senior individual contributors.
Experience partnering with executives to shape organizational strategy and priorities.
Experience partnering directly with Product, Infrastructure or Engineering as a tech risk/second-line of defense.
Experience delivering assurance or reporting against external regulatory or certification regimes (e.g., EU/Global regulatory frameworks, SOC 2, HIPAA, FDA, US Government requirements).
Knowledge of global content regulations, content moderation, and trust & safety best practices.
5+ years of experience working in regulated industries or security.
Experience working in Tech, and using AI tools to improve workflows, strengthen controls and enable compliance.

Responsibilities

Drive the strategy, operating model, and execution of Meta's Compliance & Assurance Programs priorities, including New Product Compliance, Compliance Effectiveness and multi-disciplined team.
Partner with Central Product Leads to enable risk reducing measures (integrated monitoring, reporting & oversight).
Embed compliance evaluations into early-stage product lifecycles— enabling early mitigation and accelerated/safelaunches.
Scales compliance effectiveness using AI to deliver monitoring, oversight, artefacts & org-wide continuous improvement.
Maintain an in-depth understanding of the broad regulatory landscape impacting Meta across Integrity, Youth, Privacy & Security, with the ability to design compliance strategy/priorities.
Represent Meta’s compliance posture to Leaders, Board, Committees, Regulators, and external auditors, serving as the final escalation point for risk-acceptance decisions.
Communicate complex and technical conceptions effectively (right altitude & medium) per the audience (Eng, Product, Legal) to enable cross-functional alignment & decisions.
Identification of critical gaps/risks in strategy, product or positions, and designing strategic mitigations to resolve.
Establish end-to-end AI risk assessment capabilities—defining methodologies, tiering, and operational protocols for predicate, model, and rapid assessments in close collaboration with AI Infra, Product, and Legal.
Lead cross-domain alignment across Privacy, Integrity, Legal, Compliance, and Internal Audit to implement oversight models.
Manage program financials, budgeting, and resourcing while driving AI and automation initiatives to scale assessment capacity without compromising defensibility.