Senior Compliance Manager

About lemon.markets 🍋

We enable everyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses, providing seamless access to capital markets. By empowering FinTechs, Banks and Asset Managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers.

lemon.markets provides a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform for simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure makes launching an investment product customer-centric and compliant. We abstract all complexity for our partners through a well documented API, a self-service customer operations portal and operating in a clear regulatory framework. Enabling partners to launch in weeks, not months.

We have experienced first hand that brokerage infrastructure is broken. Building an investment product used to be highly expensive, challenging and cumbersome. We ease this pain by shielding our partners & their customers from the underlying complexity - and with that, we make investing seamlessly accessible to everyone. Because that’s exactly what we enjoy, going to places nobody else dares and solving hard problems. This not only creates tons of value when done right, but attracts the smartest minds - because outlier companies are built by exceptional (& diverse) people like you.

Your Mission

Together with the Head of Compliance, you’ll be the key point of contact for the business and all departments on regulatory and compliance matters across the company. You will support and guide colleagues in navigating the complex regulatory landscape that comes with operating a licensed investment firm, covering everything from MaRisk and MaComp to WpIG and MiFID II.

Your mission goes beyond ensuring we meet regulatory obligations. You’ll help shape a culture of compliance that is collaborative, transparent, and enabling. You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, and our partners to develop practical, creative, and scalable compliance solutions that empower the business to build and launch new investment products, confidently and compliantly.

At lemon.markets, compliance is not a silo. You’ll be involved early, contribute proactively, and help design systems and processes that make compliance a natural part of product development and operational decision-making. You’ll have the space to own projects end-to-end, collaborate across teams, and bring clarity to complexity, all while contributing to our broader mission of making investing accessible to everyone.

You will

• Build and evolve our MaRisk-compliant Compliance Management System, shaping the compliance framework at lemon.markets.

• Conduct compliance risk analyses, run monitoring and testing, and ensure timely remediation and clear, audit-ready documentation.

• Develop and maintain internal compliance policies, procedures, and processes in line with German and European regulations (MaRisk, MaComp, WpIG, MiFID II).

• Track regulatory updates (e.g. BaFin, ESMA, EBA) and translate them into actionable internal processes, communication, and training.

• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations to embed compliance into products and processes from day one, and act as a regulatory sparring partner across the business.

• Use technology and automation to enhance monitoring, streamline documentation, and identify emerging risks.

You will be successful in this role if:

• You have gained relevant experience in compliance. You have at least 5 years of experience in these areas, ideally within an investment firm, FinTech, or another regulated financial institution.

• You are fluent in both German and English (written and spoken) and can communicate clearly across legal, technical, and business teams.

• You have a solid understanding of the German and European regulatory landscape, particularly WpIG, MaRisk, MaComp, and MiFID II.

• You enjoy translating regulation into action. You are compliance-minded yet solution-oriented – you understand regulatory risk but also how to enable the business to move forward safely and efficiently.

• You like building smart, scalable processes from scratch rather than waiting for the perfect system to arrive.

• You are curious about innovation and the role of technology and AI in compliance, whether it’s for automating monitoring tasks, detecting risks faster, or improving documentation.

• You thrive in fast-paced, highly regulated environments and are ready to take ownership from day one.

• You bring a structured, hands-on mindset, believe in feedback loops and continuous improvement, and enjoy working collaboratively with product, engineering, and legal stakeholders.

  You’re passionate about making investing simpler, more transparent, and more accessible across Europe, and you see compliance as a key enabler of that mission.

How we take care of you:

🚀Competitive compensation package:

We offer you a competitive salary and benefits package, based on your experience and the value-add you bring to lemon.markets.

💎Make a real impact:

Shape the experience for our customers and us alike. Decide on tools, processes and our go-to-market while building, learning and growing together.

🕑Flexible working hours:

We value focus time. Encouraging everyone to minimise fixed meetings and leverage asynchronous communication.

💻Build your perfect setup:

MacBook, Mechanical Keyboard, Plugins, IDE. These are not expenses but investments, tell us what is needed to make you productive.

🏢 Hybrid work:
We all believe that in-person collaboration is an integral part of working together, but we offer flexibility to work from home across Europe. That means, lemoneers work 4 days or more per month onsite, spending quality time together with the team at events, offsites or over team dinners.

📈 Grow with us:

We take your personal development seriously, meaning that we make sure to constantly mentor and challenge you so that you can reach your next level and beyond.

👶🏽 Get the flexibility you need:

Whether you have a family or a passion that you want to follow on the side. We want to offer you a setting that fits your current stage in life.

Diversity Commitment statement:🌈

As an equal opportunity employer, lemon.markets is committed to building an inclusive workplace. The company welcomes people from all different backgrounds, including age, citizenship, ethnic and racial origins, gender identities, individuals with disabilities, marital status, religions and ideologies, and sexual orientations to apply.

About the process:

1. Get to know us - Melissa, Talent | 40 minutes

2. Deep Dive - Nikolai, Head of Compliance | 60 minutes

3. Meet the Leadership - Dirk - MD Backoffice | 60 minutes

4. Meet us at our lemon.markets HQ

   1. Case study discussion - Nikolai - Head of Compliance, Serena - DPO & Compliance Manager & Guido - Head of Risk Management | 60 minutes

   2. Principles' Session - A selection of lemoneers | 60 minutes