Director, Product Risk and Compliance

Discord•San Francisco, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Discord's Legal team is looking for a Director, Product Risk and Compliance to lead our global product compliance function, focusing on privacy, safety, security, and consumer protection. This is a senior leadership role: you’ll be Discord's internal voice on what our product risk and compliance posture actually looks like — and what we should do about it. This role requires both operational rigor — building the systems and rhythms that keep us ahead of our obligations — and genuine subject matter depth across privacy, safety, and security compliance.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in compliance, risk management, or a related field, with demonstrated experience leading compliance functions across multiple subject matter areas — not just running a single-subject program
Breadth across at least two of our core domains: privacy (GDPR, CCPA, and global privacy frameworks), online safety and content regulation (DSA, COPPA, children's safety laws), or security compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF)
Experience owning risk registers, building and maintaining control libraries, setting maturity targets, and producing risk reporting for different audiences
Experience managing teams across multiple compliance disciplines, with the people management and prioritization skills to lead a function of seven or more people across three distinct areas
Strong executive communication skills — able to represent our risk and compliance posture clearly and credibly to senior leadership, make realistic tradeoffs out loud, and bring stakeholders along without overpromising
A real point of view on how compliance programs should be built and run, and the ability to adapt that philosophy to Discord's stage, culture, and risk profile
Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information — this person cannot be paralyzed waiting for certainty

Nice To Haves

Experience at a consumer-facing technology platform with significant regulatory complexity and scale
Direct experience building or maturing a compliance program from an early stage, including selecting and implementing GRC tooling and moving from manual to automated compliance processes
Familiarity with AI governance frameworks (EU AI Act, ISO 42001) and payments compliance
JD or legal background
Experience in gaming, social platforms, or communications technology

Responsibilities

Lead three teams — privacy compliance, safety and revenue compliance, and security GRC — bringing them under a unified operating philosophy and setting clear direction on priorities, maturity targets, and program development
Partner with product and engineering teams to identify and navigate compliance obligations and build sustainable controls — providing substantive guidance on privacy, safety, and security requirements
Own Discord's product risk registers across privacy, safety, and security — identifying and tracking risks, driving consistent risk scoring, and leading remediation and gap-closing efforts in partnership with the business
Build and maintain a control library and compliance maturity framework that gives us a clear picture of where we are and where we need to go — and helps us get there in a prioritized way
Produce risk and compliance reporting calibrated to different audiences inside the company, from team leads to senior leadership, feeding into Discord's broader enterprise risk processes
Lay the foundation for audits and potential certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, and others as they arise)
Work cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Security, Policy, and Trust & Safety to make sure compliance considerations are integrated into planning processes and how we build our product
Serve as a credible, trusted voice on product risk and compliance at every level of the company — able to walk into a room with senior leadership and make the case for what matters, what doesn't, and what realistic progress looks like