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About the Role
Discord is seeking a Director, Product Risk and Compliance to lead its global product compliance function, focusing on privacy, safety, security, and consumer protection. This senior leadership role requires operational rigor and subject matter depth, reporting to the Senior Director, Product Law.
Responsibilities
- Lead three teams: privacy compliance, safety and revenue compliance, and security GRC, unifying their operating philosophy and setting clear direction.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to identify and navigate compliance obligations and build sustainable controls.
- Own Discord's product risk registers across privacy, safety, and security, driving remediation and gap-closing efforts.
- Build and maintain a control library and compliance maturity framework.
- Produce risk and compliance reporting for various internal audiences.
- Lay the foundation for audits and potential certifications (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).
- Work cross-functionally to integrate compliance considerations into planning and product development processes.
- Serve as a credible voice on product risk and compliance at all company levels.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in compliance, risk management, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience leading compliance functions across multiple subject matter areas.
- Breadth across at least two core domains: privacy, online safety and content regulation, or security compliance.
- Experience owning risk registers, building control libraries, setting maturity targets, and producing risk reporting.
- Experience managing teams across multiple compliance disciplines.
- Strong executive communication skills.
- A clear point of view on how compliance programs should be built and run.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information.
Skills
- Privacy (GDPR, CCPA, global privacy frameworks)
- Online safety and content regulation (DSA, COPPA, children's safety laws)
- Security compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF)
- Risk management
- Compliance program development
- Executive communication
- Team leadership
- GRC tooling (bonus)
- AI governance frameworks (bonus)
- Payments compliance (bonus)
Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- New York City
- Washington, DC
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
- 12+ years
Education Level
- JD or legal background (bonus)
Salary/Compensations
- $260,000 to $325,000+
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
About the Company
- Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games.
- Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
- Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming.
- We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses.
- We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank.
- Join us in our mission!
Equal Opportunity
- Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
- We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.