Compliance Program Specialist

StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.

StackAdapt is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented HR oriented Compliance Analyst to join our expanding Legal team. Reporting directly to the Senior Compliance Lead, you will play a pivotal role in the ongoing maturation and strategic scaling of our global compliance program. This position offers a unique opportunity to play an active role in the development of high-level compliance strategy, policy implementation, and risk mitigation across all business units. As a foundational hire, you will be responsible for developing processes from the ground up and for navigating ambiguity without a predetermined roadmap.

• Formulating Strategy: Monitor emerging regulations and industry developments ("regulatory horizon scanning") and manage a compliance calendar, always with an automation-first orientation. Compare current controls to new regulations and use the results to create practical, strategic, automation-first  compliance plans. 
• Policy Development: Develop, implement, and continuously refine scalable compliance frameworks, internal policies, and procedures to ensure proactive adaptation to, and strict adherence with, global regulations and internal business requirements. 
• Compliance Audits: Design, execute, and manage an end-to-end internal compliance audit schedule across all business functions and operational areas, including supervising AI-generated regulatory summaries or automated risk flags.. 
• Risk Assessments: Conduct proactive risk assessments to identify potential control gaps, weaknesses, and emerging compliance risks. Design and maintain AI-native workflows as the default execution path for repeatable compliance tasks, such as initial evidence collection and regulatory horizon scanning. Analyze findings to quantify potential exposure and recommend strategic safeguards to mitigate adverse outcomes. 
  • Oversee compliance with wage and hour laws (FLSA, state equivalents, and applicable international standards), including employee classification, overtime eligibility, payroll audits, and statutory reporting.
  • Manage employment data compliance and regulatory reporting, including EEO-1 and related federal, state, and local submissions; ensuring data integrity, governance.
• Remediation & Monitoring: Design, develop, and maintain comprehensive, real-time compliance dashboards and key performance indicators. Utilize data gathered from monitoring activities to inform and prioritize ongoing compliance program enhancements.
• Training & Culture: Develop and update annual compliance training modules, informed by regulatory changes, audit findings, new business lines, and employee feedback, to maintain an effective and relevant program and foster a company culture of integrity and accountability.

• 3+ years of experience in compliance, trust & safety or legal. 
• Employment operations / compliance experience required. 
• Experience in AdTech or Fintech is highly preferred.
• Strong familiarity with established regulatory/compliance programs and processes.
• Core Competencies:
  • Outstanding communication skills – including written and verbal communications, interpersonal, analytical, negotiating and problem-solving skills; proven ability to work cross-functionally.
  • Ability to communicate firm compliance boundaries to stakeholders while maintaining positive, solution-oriented relationships.
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to work independently, manage tasks to completion, meet deadlines, and escalate issues when necessary.
  • Familiarity with control testing methodologies and evidence collection.
  • Experience supporting process improvements, coordinating projects, and assisting with change management initiatives.
  • Familiarity with leveraging AI tools to enhance audit, risk, or compliance processes preferred.
  • Ability to make effective and independent judgments, including the ability to develop creative solutions to difficult problems.
  • Ability to communicate firm compliance boundaries to stakeholders while maintaining positive, solution-oriented relationships.