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Compliance Manager roles across governance, risk, compliance, and AI governance.
Open Compliance Manager roles (2)
Senior Federal Compliance Manager
Senior HR Compliance Manager
About the Compliance Manager role
The Compliance Manager owns a compliance program or a major piece of one. Managers set policy, run monitoring and testing, manage regulatory relationships, and lead a team of analysts. They translate regulation into something the business can actually operate, and they answer for it when regulators ask. It is the pivotal step between analyst work and the Chief Compliance Officer's seat.
What a Compliance Manager does
- Own and run a compliance program or a major regulatory area
- Set policies and design controls that meet regulatory obligations
- Lead monitoring, testing, and issue remediation
- Manage and develop a team of compliance analysts
- Serve as a point of contact for regulators and auditors
- Advise the business on the compliance impact of new products, including AI
Core skills
- Deep knowledge of the relevant regulatory landscape
- Program and people management
- Sound judgment under ambiguity
- Influence and stakeholder management
- Clear communication to executives and regulators
- Ability to operationalize rules into controls
Certifications that help
Train for these through the GRC Careers certification guides.
Where it sits on the career ladder
← Compliance Analyst · Compliance Manager (Management) · Chief Compliance Officer →
How to break into this role
Compliance Managers typically come up from analyst or specialist roles after several years, or move across from law, audit, or risk. The step up is as much about leadership and judgment as technical knowledge: owning outcomes, managing people, and being the person who can stand in front of a regulator.
BLS put the 2024 median at $78,420. In 2026, market trackers show averages from roughly $99,000 to $120,000, with the top quartile above $160,000. Financial centers and senior governance roles sit at the top of that range.
Sources: BLS, 2024 median
FAQ
A Compliance Manager owns outcomes and people: setting policy, running the program, managing analysts, and being accountable to regulators. Analysts execute within the program a manager designs and runs.
The path typically leads to Director of Compliance and then Chief Compliance Officer, the executive accountable for the entire compliance program.
Yes. Managers increasingly advise on whether AI-driven products and decisions meet regulatory obligations, extending traditional compliance discipline to automated systems.
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