[Hiring] Director of Compliance @YOMALI

Role Description

Build a compliance function from the ground up — for a $0.5B+ e-commerce group operating in 38 countries.

Yomali's compliance function is being rebuilt from the ground up. As the business has grown, so has the workload. Compliance now reports directly into a General Counsel who joined earlier this year and is building the legal function from scratch. We need a leader who can create structure where none exists, and take consumer regulatory compliance and privacy/security from a standing start to a mature, scalable program over the next two years.

What You'll Own

• Lead and grow a team of three Compliance Operations Analysts — set expectations, coach, and build consistency across the group.
• Own day-to-day compliance review operations across our e-commerce and marketplace businesses, with a primary focus on supplements, health & wellness claims, and consumer products.
• Advise on consumer communications and data compliance: TCPA, TSR, FTC Act, CAN-SPAM, GDPR, UK GDPR, ePrivacy, and CPRA.
• Build Yomali's privacy and security program from the ground up — data mapping, retention policies, vendor oversight, and security questionnaires.
• Translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into plain-English guidance that product, marketing, operations, and payments teams can actually use.
• Serve as a trusted, hands-on partner to two of our portfolio companies — BuyGoods and HelpGrid — as the primary escalation point for compliance issues.

What Success Looks Like

• First 30–60 days: Partner with Legal Operations to identify and implement early automations.
• 3–6 months: Stabilize personnel and process across our two priority portfolio companies, with a clear roadmap for improvement; kick off a group-level roadmap for security and privacy.
• 12 months: Own regulatory compliance for consumers as your primary focus, while a broader security and privacy roadmap is underway across the group.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated hands-on compliance experience, including direct exposure to US and international consumer protection regulation.
• Experience managing and developing a team of direct reports.
• A genuine track record of building or evolving a compliance function inside a complex, multi-stakeholder environment — not just standing one up at a very small startup.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, with sound judgment on when to own a decision and when to escalate it.
• Ideally, some exposure to privacy and security program-building — data mapping, DPIAs, vendor risk, retention policy.
• A legal degree is not required — this role is about specialized compliance expertise, not legal practice.

Who Thrives Here

People who act as player-managers, not just people-managers. Our best performers take ownership of hard problems, ask the right probing questions to get to root cause, and bring solutions rather than just flagging risk. You'll need genuine presence and strength of character — this is a collaborative role, not a gatekeeping one, and you'll build the kind of trust where colleagues want to work with you, not around you.

Why People Stay / Love Working Here

You'll be shaping a function that doesn't yet have its shape — culture, standards, and operating rhythm included. You'll work directly with a General Counsel who is building the legal organization from the ground up and is looking for a true partner, not order-takers. And you'll do it inside a business with real scale and momentum: Yomali is an e-commerce conglomerate with 5+ autonomous businesses and team members in more than 30 countries — big enough to matter, still building enough that your fingerprints will be all over the outcome.

What's In It For You

• Direct access to and partnership with the General Counsel from day one.
• Genuine autonomy to build the function your way, backed by leadership investment in the right tools.
• A rare "builder" mandate at Director level — the chance to shape a compliance function's DNA rather than inherit someone else's.
• Flexible location across Ireland, UK, US, or Canada.

Interview Process

• Introductory call with Talent Acquisition.
• In-depth interview with the General Counsel.
• Follow-up conversation with key cross-functional stakeholders.
• Offer (Exact stages and timing to be confirmed with hiring team before publishing).