Risk & Compliance Leadership — CRO (Risk), CCO (Compliance), VP Audit
More than 576 executive roles classified in Risk & Compliance, with 50 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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Founder64
C-Suite252
VP51
Sr Director208
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 576 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 576)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Executive Director, Quality- Vendor & Inspection Mgmt Savara Responsible for strategic vision and hands-on execution across Vendor Lifecycle Management, Inspection Management, Quality Risk Management, Computer System Validation, and Data Integrity. C-Suite | Remote Remote |
| Director, Facility Security Officer Collibra Public Sector LLC (CPS) The Director, Facility Security Officer will serve as the principal security advisor to CPS’s Government Security Committee and the company's primary interface with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. Responsibilities include developing and ensuring compliance with the Insider Threat Program and maintaining FOCI compliance. Director | Remote, East Coast USA Remote |
| Director, SEC & ESG Reporting ServiceNow Responsible for overseeing SEC reports and ESG regulatory reporting requirements. Requires strong command of US GAAP, SEC regulations, and ESG disclosure frameworks. Director | Remote, 95054 Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA, United States Remote |
| Head of Medical & Clinical Affairs, EP Japan & Strategic Markets, APAC Johnson & Johnson Develop and implement medical & clinical affairs strategy for APAC EP, lead clinical evidence generation, build strategic relationships, oversee regional medical operations, and ensure compliance. VP | Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan Hybrid |
| Chief Compliance Officer BGC Partners Oversee and enhance compliance programs, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements. Requires experience in derivatives and securities compliance, with knowledge of CFTC and SEC rules. C-Suite | New York, New York, USA Onsite |
| Director (Strategy/GRC) ... Sparks Group Information Technology Lead cybersecurity governance, risk, compliance, and responsible AI advisory engagements. Align cybersecurity and AI governance initiatives with business objectives. VP | Dallas, TX Hybrid |
| Director, GRC & Privacy Security Polymarket The role involves building and leading the governance, risk, and compliance function within the security organization at Polymarket. Director | New York Hybrid |
| Senior Director, Global Scientific and Regulatory Documentation, Content Strategy Bristol Myers Squibb Leads a team of scientific writers for global regulatory documentation. Requires extensive experience in pharmaceutical regulatory documentation. Sr Director | Princeton, NJ, US Onsite |
| Director of Risk Management Green Key Resources Lead risk management strategies for a construction firm, ensuring compliance and mitigating operational risks. Develop and implement risk management frameworks, collaborate with senior leadership, and provide expert guidance on risk mitigation strategies. Director | Chicago, Illinois Onsite |
| Director Medical Monitor System One Provide medical oversight for clinical studies, participate in protocol development, serve as medical contact for investigators, conduct medical review of safety data, collaborate with Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Operations, support Regulatory Affairs. Director | Parsippany, NJ Hybrid |
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