Head of Compliance - Worldpay Gaming Solutions

Global Payments; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, seeks a senior regulatory leader to manage licensing, liaison with gaming regulators, and oversight of compliance across jurisdictions. You will influence regulatory outcomes, shape frameworks, and ensure adherence to evolving statutes in a dynamic gaming ecosystem.

The role requires deep experience with regulators, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to balance commercial opportunities with risk while driving multi-faceted projects to

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years in gaming or highly regulated industries.
• Extensive experience working with regulators, legal experts, and government bodies.
• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Highly organized, able to manage multiple high-level projects.
• Up-to-date on trends in both regulated and unregulated gaming.
• Ability to balance commercial opportunity with risk.

Responsibilities

• Direct all corporate gaming license applications and renewals.
• Serve as liaison to state, tribal, and international gaming regulators.
• Engage regulators to comment on proposed rules and shape market frameworks.
• Track, audit, and enforce adherence to evolving gaming statutes and local requirements.
• Monitor card brand regulations and adapt compliance frameworks to market dynamics.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder influence

Negotiation

Project management

Regulatory trends

Risk management

Strategic thinking

Job description

What you’ll own

• Regulatory Licensing & Liaison: Direct all corporate gaming license applications and renewals; serve as the official liaison to state, tribal, and international gaming control boards and regulators.
• Regulatory Influence & Market Development: Engage directly with regulators to comment on proposed rules, shape new regulated market frameworks, and advocate for outcomes that positively impact both the gaming industry and WPGS.
• Ongoing Compliance Oversight: Track, audit, and enforce organizational adherence to all evolving gaming statutes, statutory updates, and local operational requirements.
• Card Brand & Market Intelligence: Monitor and adapt compliance frameworks to reflect changes in payment network rules (Visa/Mastercard card brand regulations) and broader market dynamics affecting gaming processing.

What you’ll bring

• A minimum of 15 years of experience in gaming, gambling or other highly regulated industry.
• Extensive experience in dealing with regulators, legal experts, regulatory agencies, government and/or other entities involved in the gaming ecosystem.
• Expert negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Highly organized able to manage, influence and direct multiple high level projects at once.
• Well versed on current trends in gaming - both regulated and unregulated.
• Ability to influence strategic conversations while managing the tactical tasks of running the day-to-day business
• Ability to balance commercial opportunity with risk

Key Gaming Personnel Licensing

• Candidates must be fully eligible for personal gaming licensures across active and expansion jurisdictions.
• This includes an absolute willingness to submit to rigorous background investigations and disclose complete personal and financial history dating back to age 18.

EEOC Statement

Global Payments is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here.

If you are made a conditional offer of employment and will be working in the United States, you will be required to undergo a drug test.

In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies and requirements needed to successfully perform the position. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with qualified disabilities both during the hiring process, as well as to allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, if hired.

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At Global Payments (NYSE : GPN), we empower simple, fast, secure payments for everyone. And to do that, we’ve built a complete, worldwide commerce ecosystem that delivers software and services at scale to millions of companies around the world—from ambitious startups to global enterprises. Our team of 27,000 experts is dedicated to your success. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we're a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wherever you are—or wherever you want to be—we’re there, ready to support you.

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EEOC Statement: Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law.

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