Head of Compliance - Platforms

San Francisco, US

Posted 3 weeks ago

Full TimeExecutiveHybridCompliance

Job Description

Nium, Global Leader in Payments

Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders.

Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 220+ markets, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 35 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore.

About the Role

Nium is seeking a Head of Compliance - Platforms to serve as the senior Compliance partner to the Platforms business. This role will work closely with Sales, Business Development, Partnerships, Account Management, Product, Legal, and Nium's country compliance teams to identify regulatory considerations early, incorporate local requirements into commercial strategy, and enable compliant opportunities across the Platforms vertical.

The successful candidate will provide practical guidance on complex enterprise relationships, particularly platforms and marketplaces that use Nium's solutions to serve their own merchants or customers. This is a commercially focused Compliance role centered on structuring deals, supporting new platform models and use cases, and enabling responsible growth. The role will also own Compliance outcomes for relationships with bank partners, card networks, stablecoin networks, and other payment infrastructure partners.

While this role does not directly own regulatory relationships or license-protection responsibilities, the successful candidate will bring a deep understanding of these areas and apply that knowledge to provide practical guidance to commercial teams. They will also work closely with Nium's country Compliance teams.

About Nium

Nium is a global leader in modern money movement. It provides banks, payment providers, and businesses of any size with access to global payment and card issuance services. Its modular platform powers frictionless commerce, helping businesses pay and get paid across the globe with services for pay-outs, pay-ins, card issuance, and banking-as-a-service.

Once connected to the Nium platform, businesses are able to pay out in more than 100 currencies to over 190 countries - 85 of which in real...

Job overview

Employment type

Full Time

Experience level

Executive

Work type

Hybrid

Department

Compliance

Posted

3 weeks ago

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Financials

Type

private

Annual Revenue

$1B-$10B

Market Cap

Amount Raised

$285MM+

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