Risk & Compliance Leadership — CRO (Risk), CCO (Compliance), VP Audit
More than 552 executive roles classified in Risk & Compliance, with 49 new this week. Chief Risk Officers, Chief Compliance Officers, and Heads of Audit — the executives who own enterprise-risk posture and regulatory standing.
Tier breakdown
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Founder65
C-Suite245
VP52
Sr Director189
DirectorWhat this category covers
Risk & Compliance covers Chief Risk Officers (the risk-management seat, not the revenue one), Chief Compliance Officers, Heads of Internal Audit, and senior Regulatory leaders. Concentrated in regulated industries: banking, healthcare, insurance, pharma.
Includes BSA/AML leadership at financial institutions and Privacy Officers when the role reports executive-tier with enterprise scope.
Across the 552 active roles in this category, the largest tier is VP. The classifier weighs company size, scope, and reporting line — not just the title prefix — so the tier mix reflects real responsibility, not vanity titles.
What falls outside: CRO meaning Chief Revenue Officer (those land in CRO & Revenue Leadership) and ICA-level audit roles.
Sample Jobs (10 of 552)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Senior Director Regulatory Affairs - ACH Tyra Biosciences The role involves strategic regulatory leadership for a Skeletal Dysplasia program, requiring global regulatory strategy experience and leadership in a biotech environment. Sr Director | United States Remote |
| Regulatory Transformation Lead ... Broadgate Search Join an international trading organisation in a high-impact role where you'll shape regulatory strategy, influence senior stakeholders and lead the evolution of trade surveillance and compliance across multiple European entities. VP | Zürich, Switzerland Unknown |
| Chief Risk Officer (ADGM, RIE &RCH) Bybit The Chief Risk Officer is responsible for establishing and overseeing the risk management framework for Bybit's exchange and clearing operations in Abu Dhabi, UAE. C-Suite | Abu Dhabi, UAE Onsite |
| Head of RA - Korea GE Healthcare Provides regulatory strategy and direction to the business regarding healthcare industry regulatory requirements for product launch, premarket submissions/registrations and postmarket compliance, working closely with healthcare regulatory bodies globally. VP | Seoul, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 04637 Unknown |
| Head of Security (NYC / MIA) Crossmint The Head of Security will build and own Crossmint's security function, manage a team, and ensure compliance with security standards. The role requires 8+ years in security, with at least 3 years in a leadership role. VP | New York City, Miami Hybrid |
| Chief Risk Officer Wise The Chief Risk Officer will be a key contributor in Wise's Risk Management Team, responsible for delivering the risk management framework in India, managing regulatory relationships, and integrating risk insights into product changes. C-Suite | Hyderabad Unknown |
| Director of Quality Control, Hardlines Quince The role involves ensuring product quality standards, developing testing protocols, and leading a team of Quality Assurance professionals. The company focuses on high-quality, sustainable products. Director | Vietnam Unknown |
| Enterprise Risk Management Leader GE Vernova The Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Leader will drive the transformation of the ERM function across GE Vernova, working with executive leadership to enhance the ERM framework and embed a risk-aware culture. VP | Remote Remote |
| Medical Director ... Green Key Resources The Medical Director will provide strategic safety oversight for investigational and marketed products within the Neuroscience portfolio, collaborate with leadership, and ensure compliance with safety regulations. VP | Waltham, Massachusetts Hybrid |
| Director, Manufacturing & Quality Operations Collaborative Robotics Collaborative Robotics is seeking a manufacturing leader to build and scale the in-house production system for robots. The role involves establishing build processes, designing quality systems, and scaling production. VP | Santa Clara, CA Onsite |
How classification gets to this category
Risk & Compliance classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:
- Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
- Compensation threshold. An exec-tier base-comp floor filters out individual-contributor roles that share the title language. Roles below the floor in unambiguous category titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the JD for enterprise-risk vs. revenue-risk semantics, regulatory engagement, and board-committee reporting. The classifier disambiguates CRO/Risk from CRO/Revenue based on JD content, not just title. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
Negative filters explicitly block adjacent IC and analyst roles whose titles can resemble executive ones. The result: Risk & Compliance as a category in your inbox is the executive cut, not the entry-level cut.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Risk & Compliance is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Risk & Compliance + Banking and you see CROs (risk) and CCOs at banks where Reg-driven roles dominate — your inbox shows the intersection, not the union. You won't see roles that match only one of the filters and not the other.
Tier filtering layers on top. If you only want VP-tier and above in this category, the seniority-tier filter does that cleanly. Restrict further to C-suite only to see the most senior seats, or open it up to Director-tier to widen the funnel during early-stage exploration.
Remote mix