Senior Director, Compliance & Platform

AbsenceSoft

3d•$214,000 - $268,000•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Director, Product - Compliance & Platform leads AbsenceSoft’s compliance engine and enterprise-scale platform. The role owns strategy, roadmap, and outcomes across both areas, including product coverage for leave and accommodation laws and the platform capabilities customers and partners rely on. It leads product managers, domain experts, and platform product leaders and reports to the Chief Product Officer. The position has decision rights over a significant share of the product portfolio and accountability for retention, expansion, and win-rate outcomes. It is a hands-on leadership role involving direct work in strategy, prototyping, and customer engagement. The Senior Director collaborates with the team to consolidate product-area strategies into a shared plan, keeps compliance coverage current as laws change across jurisdictions, and sets platform direction for configuration, identity and access, integrations, and data. The role builds and develops the product organization, maintains delivery standards with Engineering, and integrates AI with the accuracy and governance expected by enterprise customers and legal teams. It partners across Engineering, Legal, Customer Experience, Sales, Marketing, and Finance, and represents compliance and platform to executive leadership, the board, and customers. The role also participates in the company’s compliant operating environment and assists with maintaining organizational security and compliance controls within its department and scope.

Requirements

15+ years in product management.
5+ years leading product managers, with experience leading managers or multiple product areas simultaneously.
Proven experience owning a compliance, regulatory, or rules-engine product at enterprise scale; examples include RegTech, tax, payroll, benefits, healthcare, fintech, or HR compliance. This is a core requirement.
Proven experience owning a multi-tenant enterprise platform, including identity and access, configuration, integrations and APIs, or data.
Track record of shipping complex products on committed dates for demanding enterprise customers, with a clear personal contribution to holding delivery commitments.
Experience shipping AI features into production in an accuracy-critical domain, with rigorous evaluation and governance.
Demonstrated ability to set product strategy that improved ARR, retention, or win rate, supported by measurable results.
Enterprise B2B SaaS experience with strong data fluency, including scaling a product from mid-market to enterprise.
Strong bias for action and speed in decision-making and delivery.
Ability to communicate clearly and authoritatively and earn the trust of senior customer stakeholders, including CHROs, General Counsel, and CIOs.
High autonomy and ability to set direction amid ambiguity with minimal guidance.
Ability to build a deep understanding of work by learning alongside the people who do it.
Customer-obsessed approach and strong instincts for product quality.
Ability to build, coach, and develop high-performing product leaders and teams.

Nice To Haves

Domain experience in leave and absence, benefits, employment law, or HR tech.
Experience working directly with legal and regulatory experts to translate requirements into product.
Experience in a high-growth, scaling SaaS environment.

Responsibilities

Own strategy, roadmap, and results for compliance and platform, including the retention, expansion, and win-rate outcomes they drive.
Develop strategy collaboratively with product managers and domain experts, consolidating the direction of each area into a single plan.
Extend compliance coverage as leave and accommodation laws change, keeping the product current across jurisdictions.
Set direction for the enterprise-scale platform, including configuration, identity and access, integrations, and data; own how enterprise customers adopt, extend, and stay on it.
Build, coach, and develop product managers, domain experts, and managers, raising standards for product craft, delivery speed, and AI-enabled ways of working.
Maintain high delivery standards in partnership with Engineering and integrate AI into the product with enterprise-grade accuracy and governance.
Partner with Engineering, Legal, Customer Experience, Sales, Marketing, and Finance.
Represent compliance and platform to executive leadership, the board, and customers.
Assist in maintaining applicable organizational security and compliance controls within the department, role, and subordinate roles.
Perform other duties as assigned.