Head of Transaction Operations – Compliance

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🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $156k - $208k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🚔 Compliance

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Slate Auto

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201 - 500 employees

🚗 Transport

🔧 Hardware

👥 B2C

Transport • Hardware • B2C

Slate Auto is a manufacturer of a radically simple, highly customizable electric pickup that can be configured as a pickup or fastback SUV. The company sells directly to consumers with an online configurator called the Slate Maker, a reservation model, and an accessories marketplace for swaps and upgrades. Slate Auto emphasizes affordability, practical design, and easy ownership with integrated charging options and third‑party service and charging network partnerships.

📋 Description

• Leads the end-to-end transaction infrastructure across consumer and fleet sales, ensuring all contracts, funding, title, and registration processes are executed accurately, compliantly, and at scale. • Own the full contract lifecycle across all consumer and fleet transaction types, ensuring alignment with pricing, financing, and regulatory requirements. • Oversee contract generation, execution, and storage across consumer and fleet channels. • Ensure accuracy across pricing, taxes, incentives, and financing terms. • Align contracts with Financial Services offerings, lender requirements, and funding structures. • Establish approval workflows for non-standard deals and exceptions. • Maintain version control and auditability of all executed agreements. • Partner with Legal to ensure state-by-state compliance across consumer and fleet transactions. • Lead all vehicle registration processes across consumer and fleet transactions, ensuring accurate tax calculation, jurisdictional compliance, and timely completion. • Own registration workflows across consumer and fleet transactions. • Ensure accurate calculation and collection of state and local taxes and fees. • Manage temporary registration issuance and expiration tracking. • Oversee third-party registration partners and enforce SLAs. • Maintain compliance with state-by-state requirements and evolving regulations. • Oversee all title processing for both customer-owned and internally managed vehicles, ensuring accurate ownership transfer and compliance. • Manage end-to-end title lifecycle from submission through completion. • Ensure accuracy across VIN, ownership, lienholder, and documentation. • Support both retail and internal/fleet vehicle titling. • Track status and resolve exceptions proactively. • Ensure compliance with all state titling requirements. • Own the enablement and operational readiness of system partners supporting transaction and registration workflows, ensuring integration alignment, compliance adherence, and performance standards. • Identify, onboard, and enable system partners supporting contracting, registration, and compliance workflows. • Ensure system partners are aligned on transaction requirements, compliance standards, and regulatory obligations. • Manage integration readiness between partner platforms and internal transaction and registration systems. • Establish and enforce SLAs, performance standards, and escalation paths for system partners. • Drive continuous improvement across partner system performance, accuracy, and compliance adherence. • Partner with Digital and IT to ensure system connectivity and data integrity across platforms. • Serve as the primary point of accountability for system partner compliance and operational readiness across consumer and fleet channels. • Establish and enforce a robust control environment across all transaction processes to ensure accuracy, compliance, and risk mitigation. • Design and implement controls across contracts, funding, title, and registration workflows. • Ensure compliance with state-by-state sales licensing, tax, registration, and financing requirements. • Own risk assessment frameworks and high-risk transaction review processes. • Establish audit processes and ensure audit readiness across all transaction activities. • Lead sales reconciliation and ensure alignment with Finance, Accounting, and Tax. • Drive process accuracy, reducing errors, rework, and compliance risk. • Partner closely with Financial Services to ensure seamless integration of financing and funding into the transaction lifecycle.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in automotive transaction operations, title & registration, sales compliance, or related automotive retail operations • 5+ years of experience leading and developing high-performing operations, compliance, or transaction teams • Deep understanding of multi-state title and registration processes, DMV regulations, and automotive sales compliance requirements • Experience supporting direct-to-consumer (D2C) automotive sales models preferred • Proven experience establishing and scaling transaction, registration, and compliance processes across licensed and unlicensed states • Strong working knowledge of state-specific automotive laws, regulatory requirements, temporary registration processes, tax and fee compliance, and documentation standards • Experience managing and partnering with third-party DMV/title & registration agents, vendors, and state agencies • Demonstrated ability to develop operational controls, audit processes, compliance standards, and risk mitigation procedures within a fast-paced environment • Experience supporting new market launches and operational readiness across multiple states preferred • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Sales, Legal, Finance, Customer Experience, and Operations teams • Highly detail-oriented with the ability to balance customer experience, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

🏖️ Benefits

• 401k match • annual bonus • company equity • robust offering of benefit and wellness plans • HSA / FSA