Chief Compliance Officer

Overview

This leadership role serves as the Chief Compliance Officer within a fast-growing healthcare technology company based in the United States. The position entails developing and leading a comprehensive enterprise-wide compliance program that ensures adherence to regulatory standards across clinical, pharmacy, privacy, security, and commercial domains. Working in partnership with executive and cross-functional teams, the officer drives compliance integration into business growth, product development, and operations, promoting ethical, scalable, and risk-aware practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise compliance function by setting vision, structure, budget, metrics, and strategic direction.
• Create and uphold policies, procedures, and internal controls consistent with healthcare, privacy, pharmacy, and regulatory mandates.
• Implement continuous monitoring, internal auditing, compliance reporting, issue resolution, and corrective actions to enhance risk management.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, legal, security, clinical, and commercial teams to incorporate compliance into product creation, market growth, vendor onboarding, and operational processes.
• Manage incident response together with legal and security teams, including investigations, regulatory communications, breach handling, and post-incident reviews.
• Develop third-party compliance oversight encompassing due diligence, contract standards, and monitoring vendors, providers, pharmacies, and partners.
• Foster a culture of ethics and compliance through targeted training, managing reporting systems, and encouraging transparent, retaliation-free reporting.
• Stay abreast of regulatory changes, interact with oversight bodies, and advise leadership and the Board with strategic compliance updates and guidance.

Qualifications and Experience

• Between 10 to 15+ years of leadership experience in compliance within healthcare, telehealth, pharmacy, digital health, or related regulated sectors.
• Proven capability in designing and expanding enterprise compliance programs across multiple states.
• Deep understanding of healthcare regulations including HIPAA/HITECH, privacy laws, telehealth, pharmacy, and relevant compliance frameworks.
• Experienced in assembling, mentoring, and guiding effective compliance teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills to influence executives and collaborate across legal, clinical, product, security, and operational teams.
• Exceptional strategic, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Polished executive communication skills, including presenting to senior leadership and boards.
• A balanced approach to support business growth while managing risks through data-driven decision making.
• High integrity, sound judgment, operational discipline, and a collaborative leadership style.
• Adaptability to fast-moving environments with a talent for establishing scalable processes from scratch.

Benefits

• Comprehensive coverage including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Access to Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts.
• Flexible paid time off policy.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions.
• Life insurance benefits.
• Pet insurance coverage.
• An empowering and cooperative workplace with significant autonomy and executive influence.
• Opportunities to influence company strategy and drive impactful organizational change.

Additional Information

The recruitment process includes AI-assisted application screening to ensure objective evaluation based on core requirements; however, final hiring decisions and subsequent steps are conducted directly by the hiring company. Personal data is processed in line with applicable data protection laws, and candidates may inquire about data handling. AI tools support the recruitment process but do not replace human judgment.