Job Description

We are looking for a Head of Strategy to serve as the right hand person to Square’s Chief Compliance Officer. 

Our mission is to help build compliant and empowering products, assess and manage regulatory risk, and guide the evolution of compliance practices. You will have direct exposure to executive leadership across the organization, especially within our Counsel and Compliance teams. You will help manage team-wide programs and work with Compliance Leads to ensure their teams are operating and that programs comply with all applicable laws and regulations. You will work with teams to guide project execution, and ensure programs meet committed timelines. This is a high visibility role with exposure to multiple areas of the business, and an opportunity to get involved in many compliance related projects You will report directly to the Chief Compliance Officer for Square.

This job is remote.

You will: 

• Be Square Compliance’s primary contact and manage all operational processes including headcount/resourcing planning, team budgets, and compliance reviews, decision-making frameworks, goal setting processes, operating calendars, and communications

• Understand strategic plans and help communicate and implement them across the organization

• Partner with Compliance leadership to build interdepartmental programming

• Coordinate and engage with regulators in a manner that shows a working knowledge of regulated financial services environment

• Understand the business strategies and work with product and technology partners to guide our program road map

• Help coordinate content for leadership and team meetings

• Identify ways to improve the team’s operations and improve efficiency as an organization

Qualifications

You have: 

• 10+ years of operations and/or leadership experience. This could include experience across operations, strategy and planning, general management, legal operations, or compliance operations.

• Experience leading and influencing across different teams and levels of employees

• Experience presenting to senior leadership with experience in data-driven approaches

• Project management skills including the ability to anticipate and prioritize

• Experience making swift decisions, and manage competing deadlines

• Excellent in handling complex, confidential scenarios

• Passionate about building teams and being the glue

• Experience in payments and financial services