Remote Compliance Director, High-Risk FinTech

Angeles Investors, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Finix is hiring a Compliance Director to guide our business teams on front-end compliance for new merchants, partners, and sectors. You will lead the gaming and gambling compliance strategy and shape underwriting standards across high-risk verticals while ensuring adherence to laws, card network rules, and sponsor bank requirements.

You will collaborate with Sales, Partnerships, Underwriting, and Payment Operations to streamline onboarding and provide clear, timely guidance on what is

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in compliance, risk, or regulatory roles within payments, fintech, banking, or similar regulated environments.
• Hands-on experience with merchant underwriting and onboarding, including KYC/KYB and risk-based approval frameworks.
• Experience with high-risk merchant verticals such as gaming and gambling, nutraceuticals, CBD, or similar, and with card network and sponsor bank requirements.
• Proven ability to interpret regulatory and card network requirements and apply them to real merchants, products, and business models.
• Strong understanding of risk management and controls, and of sponsor bank oversight expectations.
• Experience working directly with sales, business development, or product teams on deals and new market entry.
• Experience drafting policies, procedures, and guides that business teams actually use.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional work with multiple dependencies and senior stakeholders.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to turn ambiguity into clear plans, trade-offs, and decisions.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (or Google equivalents)

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary compliance partner to Sales, Partnerships, and Underwriting, giving fast, practical, well-documented guidance on prospects and deals.
• Lead compliance strategy for our gaming and gambling vertical, including iGaming, sports wagering, sweepstakes, and predictive markets, with regulatory analysis and licensing requirements.
• Develop and maintain underwriting standards, risk-tiering, approval gates, and escalation paths for high-risk sectors.
• Lead compliance evaluation of new sectors, business models, and structures, performing market and regulatory research and setting minimum requirements.
• Write and maintain procedures, onboarding guides, and underwriting playbooks for high-risk and restricted verticals.
• Translate laws, card network rules, and sponsor bank requirements into clear guidance for Product, Sales, Technology, and Operations teams.
• Guide and develop the Compliance Operations team through coaching, review of work product, and clear standards for quality and documentation.
• Support sponsor bank and network relationships on onboarding and sector-related matters, including approvals and due diligence requests.
• Monitor regulatory and network rule changes and update guidance accordingly, with external counsel where appropriate.
• Prepare clear, decision-ready summaries for senior management and partners

Skills

Compliance

Regulatory analysis

Risk management

Policy drafting

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Juris Doctor or law degree

Bar admission in good standing

Job description

Finix is hiring a Compliance Director to guide our business teams on front-end compliance for new merchants, partners, and sectors. You will lead the gaming and gambling compliance strategy and shape underwriting standards across high-risk verticals while ensuring adherence to laws, card network rules, and sponsor bank requirements.

You will collaborate with Sales, Partnerships, Underwriting, and Payment Operations to streamline onboarding and provide clear, timely guidance on what is