Director, Product Risk and Compliance

📋 Description

• Lead three teams: privacy compliance, safety and revenue compliance, and security GRC.
• Partner with product and engineering to identify obligations and build sustainable controls.
• Own Discord's product risk registers across privacy, safety, and security; drive risk scoring and remediation.
• Build and maintain a control library and compliance maturity framework with prioritized goals.
• Produce risk and compliance reporting for audiences inside the company, from teams to senior leadership.
• Lay the foundation for audits and certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, and others as they arise).

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years in compliance, risk mgmt with leadership across multiple subject areas.
• Breadth across at least two core domains: privacy (GDPR, CCPA), online safety/content regulation (DSA, COPPA), or security (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF).
• Experience owning risk registers, building/maintaining control libraries, setting maturity targets, and producing risk reporting.
• Experience managing teams across multiple compliance disciplines (7+ people across three areas).
• Strong executive communication; able to clearly present risk posture to senior leadership and align stakeholders.
• Real point of view on how programs should be built and run, adaptable to Discord's stage and risk profile.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information.

🎁 Benefits

• Equity plus benefits
• High‑impact leadership role with broad scope
• Cross‑functional collaboration across product, legal, security, and trust
• Opportunity to drive audits and certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
• Inclusive interview process with accommodations
• Global product risk exposure and influence