Senior Manager, Risk and Compliance

IREN•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud provider, delivering large-scale data centers and GPU clusters for AI training and inference. IREN’s platform is underpinned by its expansive portfolio of grid-connected land and power in renewable-rich regions across North America, Europe and APAC. With 100% renewable energy, we build, own and operate our data centers and take pride in being at the forefront of sustainable solutions for the ever-evolving applications of high-performance compute. We believe that human progress is invaluable, but it should be done in the right way – responsibly, sustainably and having a positive impact on the communities we operate in. This role sits within the Risk & Compliance function and reports to the Director of Risk. As a NASDAQ-listed business operating across Australia, the US, Canada and Europe, IREN’s regulatory obligations have grown rapidly in number, complexity and consequence. This role is responsible for developing and managing the enterprise-wide regulatory compliance frameworks needed to keep pace with that growth, ensuring obligations are identified, owned, tracked and met across the group. The focus of the role is corporate regulatory compliance, with particular depth in employment law, immigration, payroll and privacy. You will partner closely with the People and Culture team to ensure IREN meets its obligations as an employer across four jurisdictions, while providing oversight of regulatory compliance across the broader business. The role also provides support for IREN's contractual compliance activities, working alongside Legal and Commercial teams. This is a hands-on senior role. We expect the work to be performed leveraging modern tooling and AI.

Requirements

10+ years’ experience in risk, compliance, governance, audit, legal or commercial roles, with substantive ownership of both large and complex contractual environments and multi-jurisdiction regulatory compliance.
Proven experience working with complex commercial agreements and interpreting contractual/legal obligations, including supplier, customer and financing / debt agreements.
Deep working knowledge of regulatory frameworks, ideally across at least two of: Australia, the US, Canada and Europe with strong expertise in employment law, immigration, payroll compliance and privacy.
Demonstrated ability to build frameworks, registers, governance models and processes from the ground up.
Experience within large, complex environments such as data centres, banking, infrastructure, energy, or technology.
Experience working closely with the People and Culture or HR functions, with an understanding of the compliance obligations for employment, workforce management and immigration.
Genuine fluency with technology and AI as tools for solving compliance problems at scale, with concrete examples of replacing manual work with better-designed solutions.
A commercially pragmatic mindset, with the ability to balance risk and business outcomes.
Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy, mobilise action and deliver outcomes in complex environments.

Responsibilities

Be accountable for IREN’s regulatory compliance framework, structured around three pillars: inform, comply and assure. Provide strategic oversight over obligations management, uplift compliance capability and influence across the business and continuously evolve the framework to keep pace with IREN’s growth.
Inform – maintain the register of regulatory obligations applying to IREN across its operating jurisdictions; monitor regulatory change; ensure obligation owners are aware of the obligations and changes that may impact their business units or activities.
Comply – partner with business leaders to ensure controls are designed, implemented and operated effectively to meet compliance obligations across the group; identify instances of non-compliance and drive remediation; own incident and breach management end-to-end, including implementation, reporting, root cause analysis and remediation tracking.
Assure – lead risk-based assurance activities, including periodic internal and external reviews, to assess the effectiveness of controls; identify control design gaps and drive them to closure; coordinate periodic compliance confirmations by the Executive Leadership Team; provide assurance to the Executive and Board that regulatory obligations are being met across the group.
While the portfolio covers all applicable regulatory requirements across IREN, the day-to-day focus of the role is employment law, immigration, payroll compliance and privacy, working in close partnership with the People and Culture team.
In addition to regulatory compliance, provide support to the team in the monitoring and tracking of obligations arising under material contractual agreements, helping ensure ongoing compliance and visibility of key commitments.
Prepare and deliver regular reporting to the Board’s Audit and Risk Committee on contractual and regulatory compliance.
Partner with internal stakeholders across the business (People and Culture, Legal, Commercial, Finance, Operations, Construction and the Executive team) and engage external consultants and specialist advisors where needed to bring the right expertise across jurisdictions.
Implement and embed the governance and accountability structures that underpin both frameworks, ensuring they operate effectively at multi-jurisdictional scale.
Stand up the technology and AI tooling that make obligations management scalable.

Benefits

Base salary
Annual performance incentives
Equity programs
Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage – 100% company paid for employees, 75% company paid coverage for dependents
Company-paid life and disability insurance
Voluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage available
Health Savings Accounts (HSA) – when combined with the High-Deductible Health Plan
Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources
401(k) retirement plan with company match
Financial wellness tools and resources
Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays
Flexible work arrangements
Opportunities for advancement and internal mobility
Training and personal development opportunities
Company events and team-building activities