Director, Global Compliance

🕒 August 4

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚔 Compliance

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Harbor

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501 - 1000 employees

⚖️ Legal

📣 Marketing

💼 Consulting

Legal • Marketing • Consulting

Harbor is a globally integrated team of 800 industry experts working across strategy, legal technology, operations, and intelligence, focused on helping leading law firms, corporations, and their law departments achieve breakthrough outcomes. The company enhances law firm business development through powerful marketing technology and data quality management solutions, following their recent acquisition of CLIENTSFirst Consulting.

📋 Description

• Establish, lead, and continuously evolve Harbor’s global compliance function • Report directly to the General Counsel • Design and improve the global compliance program, strategy, operating model, governance framework, and roadmap • Create scalable policies, processes, internal controls, and enterprise compliance standards • Recommend organizational structure, technology investments, and resource needs • Draft and maintain global compliance policies and procedures • Lead internal investigations, ethics matters, whistleblower reporting, and case management • Conduct compliance risk assessments and monitor global regulatory developments • Develop and deliver compliance training and awareness programs • Create executive dashboards, KPIs, metrics, and reporting • Coordinate external advisors and consultants • Conduct compliance due diligence during acquisitions and develop post-close integration plans • Harmonize compliance practices across acquired businesses and build repeatable integration playbooks • Design scalable operating processes and identify automation opportunities • Evaluate and implement compliance technology solutions • Support internal and external audit activities • Oversee policy governance, lifecycle management, record retention, monitoring, and testing • Partner with the General Counsel, Executive Leadership Team, Human Resources, Finance, Information Security, Corporate Development, and external counsel • Build Harbor’s first enterprise-wide compliance function and establish Compliance as a strategic growth partner

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required • 8–12+ years of progressive compliance, legal, ethics, or regulatory experience • Experience building or significantly transforming a corporate compliance program • Experience supporting global organizations across multiple jurisdictions • Strong experience developing governance frameworks, policies, and internal controls • Demonstrated success leading internal investigations and ethics programs • Experience developing enterprise compliance training and awareness initiatives • Strong project management and organizational skills • Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities • Ability to influence senior leaders without direct authority • Preferred: experience within a private equity-backed organization • Preferred: experience supporting a rapidly scaling business • Preferred: professional services, consulting, technology, or legal industry experience • Preferred: experience supporting domestic and international acquisitions • Preferred: experience integrating acquired businesses into enterprise governance frameworks • Preferred: experience implementing governance or compliance technology platforms • Preferred: Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP) or comparable certification • Builder’s mindset and ability to create scalable enterprise capabilities • Strong operational orientation and willingness to personally execute critical work • Commercial judgment balancing business objectives with risk management • Comfort operating in a private equity-backed, high-growth environment • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills supported by data-driven decision making • Executive presence and confidence influencing and appropriately challenging senior leaders

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employment • Remote work from anywhere in the USA • EST/CST work hours preferred