Risk & Compliance Leadership — CRO (Risk), CCO (Compliance), VP Audit
More than 664 executive roles classified in Risk & Compliance, with 46 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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Founder25
C-Suite253
VP81
Sr Director305
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 664 active roles in this category, the largest tier is Director. 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 664)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| SVP Quality Systems System One The SVP Quality Systems will lead quality integration into operations, manage supplier performance, and oversee the Quality Management System. The role involves significant interaction with regulatory bodies and requires extensive experience in life sciences. VP | Canton, Massachusetts Onsite |
| Head of InfoSec & ICT Risk LemFi Manage ICT risk and information security for LemFi Europe, ensuring compliance with Central Bank of Ireland regulations. VP | Dublin Hybrid |
| Senior Director, Regulatory Strategy Program Lead Rapport Therapeutics Lead regulatory strategy for a development program, requiring experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry. Sr Director | Boston, MA Hybrid |
| Director of Security Arrive Logistics Lead security strategy, operations, and audit readiness at Arrive Logistics. Report to VP of Enterprise IT. Full-time, onsite in Austin, TX. Director | Austin, TX Onsite |
| Director, Governance, Risk & Compliance Apex Technology, Inc. The Director, Governance, Risk & Compliance will own and build the GRC function, manage compliance programs, and lead a team. The role involves working with various frameworks and certifications, including NIST, CMMC, FedRAMP, SOC 2, and ISO 27001. Director | Los Angeles, CA Onsite |
| VP of Quality and Risk ... mission-driven acute care hospital The Vice President of Quality and Risk leads the hospital's regulatory and clinical quality strategy, establishes quality goals, oversees patient care improvement initiatives, and balances regulatory compliance with operational priorities. VP | Chicago, IL Onsite |
| Head of Financial Lines Technical Claims AIG Responsible for technical oversight of Financial Lines Claims in North America, driving claims technical excellence, and collaborating with senior leaders to manage strategic objectives and policies. VP | NY-New York Onsite |
| Director, Medical Safety Assessment Physician Bristol Myers Squibb Lead safety activities and benefit-risk strategies for BMS compounds, oversee safety review documents, and support regulatory processes. Director | Princeton, NJ, US Unknown |
| Corporate Insurance Director J. Paul Getty Trust Lead the corporate insurance program for the J. Paul Getty Trust, managing insurance for cultural assets, facilities, and operations. C-Suite | Los Angeles, CA Hybrid |
| Risk & Compliance Integration Lead ... growing, multi-disciplinary professional services group Lead the risk and compliance side of acquisitions, from due diligence to integration, within a growing professional services group. VP | Manchester, United Kingdom 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.
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