Legal & Compliance Program Manager

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🐊 Florida, Illinois – Remote

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💵 $100k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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NinjaHoldings

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Finance • Fintech • B2C

NinjaHoldings is a pioneering company offering transformative and innovative financial solutions, focusing on digital lending and financial services for underserved Americans. As original entrepreneurs and data scientists, they have developed digital money platforms to empower individuals often overlooked by traditional banks. Through their brands like CreditNinja and NinjaCard, they provide a comprehensive suite of digital banking and lending products, with incentives and rewards that help guide customers towards financial improvement. Additionally, their NinjaEdge brand offers B2B solutions for companies, enhancing customer understanding via bespoke underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services.

📋 Description

• Own and manage the Compliance Program • Build Jira space, which serves as the central PM and coordination space for compliance and legal initiatives, ensuring work is routed to the correct Jira space and tracked appropriately • Intake and prioritize initiatives originating from Compliance and Legal • Own cross-functional Epics and drive them from definition through completion • Translate compliance and legal requirements into clear execution plans • Coordinate execution across Compliance, Legal, Product, Engineering, Operations, and external partners • Drive project planning, scheduling, and monitoring to ensure initiatives are delivered on time and with high quality • Ensure required legal and bank reviews and approvals are obtained, documented, and tracked • Identify risks, dependencies, and blockers early, recommend mitigation strategies, and escalate when needed • Provide clear status updates and delivery visibility to Compliance and Legal leadership and ensure initiatives close with proper validation, approvals, and evidence retained • Analyze complex business challenges and translate them into actionable solutions, utilizing advanced analytical tools and methodologies • Champion process improvements, organizational alignment, and strategic decision-making

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Program Manager, Product Manager, Project Manager, or similar role • Demonstrated experience delivering complex, cross-team initiatives • Experience working in regulated industries strongly preferred • Comfort working closely with Engineering, Product, Compliance, and Legal teams • Strong experience using Jira to manage cross-functional work, including Epics, stories and linked workflows across multiple projects • Demonstrated ability to manage a program build or initiative board that coordinates work executed by other teams • Familiarity with software development lifecycles, releases processes, and change management protocols • Experience operating in controlled or regulated change environments • Strong organizational and prioritization skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package • Flexible, remote work • Fun, fast-paced work environment • Dynamic start-up culture • Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company • Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city