Trade Compliance Manager/Senior Manager

Maybell Quantum Industries • Denver, NY

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About The Position

Maybell Quantum is hiring its first dedicated trade compliance professional to own global trade compliance. The role will build and lead the company’s export compliance function as it grows across the United States, Germany, Finland, and Singapore and ships to customers across North America, Europe, and Asia. The company’s cryogenic infrastructure products for quantum computing fall within an emerging export-control regime, and the position will make and defend decisions that affect shipments, customer transactions, and international engineering collaboration.

The role has direct responsibility for product and technology classification, licensing, deemed exports, restricted-party screening, end-use diligence, supply-chain compliance, employee travel monitoring, and the company’s Export Compliance Program. The position has authority to hold shipments, transfers, or technical-data disclosures while compliance issues are resolved. It reports to the President, partners with Operations, Engineering, Sales, Supply Chain, IT, and HR, and escalates unresolved conflicts between compliance decisions and commercial or operational commitments to the CEO.

The final title—Manager or Senior Manager—and base salary will depend on the candidate’s licensing experience and multi-jurisdictional exposure. The role offers the opportunity to build and lead Maybell’s global trade compliance function.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of export-controls or trade-compliance experience for the Manager level, or at least 8 years with multi-jurisdictional program ownership for the Senior Manager level.
• Direct, hands-on responsibility for classification and licensing under the EAR.
• Demonstrated experience filing and managing BIS licenses, rather than only supporting another person’s applications.
• Working knowledge of deemed-export requirements and operating a program within a multinational engineering organization.
• Experience in hardware manufacturing involving genuinely controlled products, such as aerospace, defense, semiconductor capital equipment, or scientific instrumentation.
• Sound judgment and willingness to enforce compliance decisions, including saying no when appropriate.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to EU dual-use regulation and at least one national European regime, such as German BAFA, the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, or Dutch national controls.
• Experience building a compliance program rather than inheriting one.
• Familiarity with emerging technology controls, including quantum, advanced computing, or semiconductors.
• Experience supporting distributor and reseller channels with end-user obligations.

Responsibilities

• Classify products, components, software, and technical data under the EAR, including applicable quantum-specific ECCNs and related controls.
• Determine transaction-specific license requirements; prepare, file, and manage BIS license applications and license-exception determinations.
• Obtain and manage export licenses for Singapore operations and maintain them in good standing.
• Manage equivalent processes with BAFA in Germany, Singapore Customs, the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and other applicable national regimes.
• Maintain auditable classification records and jurisdictional determinations.
• Own the deemed-export program, assessing nationality-based access requirements for controlled technical data across engineering teams in Denver, Münster, Helsinki, and Singapore.
• Partner with IT and engineering leadership to define access controls for CAD, PLM, and technical-documentation systems; determine who may have access while IT implements the controls.
• Support hiring and onboarding decisions involving foreign-national access to controlled technology.
• Maintain employee nationality and immigration-status records as required by the EAR and applicable local regulations.
• Conduct restricted- and denied-party screening of customers, distributors, suppliers, and visitors.
• Perform end-use and end-user diligence and escalate red flags.
• Identify and apply for licenses required for specific deals and track applications through approval before commercial commitments are made.
• Support commercial negotiations on export-related contract terms, including license conditions, end-user certifications, re-export obligations, and distributor undertakings.
• Work with Supply Chain to conduct export-compliance diligence on suppliers and partners and establish appropriate contractual commitments.
• Review supply-chain strategies for export-control implications, including sourcing locations, supplier jurisdictions, and the sharing of controlled technical data.
• Confirm that outsourced parts and technical data provided to suppliers are properly classified and authorized before release.
• Monitor emerging supply-chain risks, including new controls, entity listings, and sanctions changes, and drive mitigation such as alternate sourcing or additional licensing.
• Develop and maintain a staff travel policy addressing business travel, devices, and technical data carried abroad.
• Monitor employee travel declarations, IT reports, and other ongoing compliance activities.
• Build and maintain the Export Compliance Program, including written procedures, training, recordkeeping, internal audit, and escalation paths.
• Deliver role-specific compliance training to departments.
• Manage outside trade counsel and consultants, scope their work, and own internal compliance decisions.
• Prepare compliance materials for investor and customer diligence.
• Exercise authority to hold shipments, transfers, or technical-data disclosures pending compliance resolution without requiring Operations or Sales sign-off.
• Escalate unresolved conflicts between compliance decisions and commercial or operational commitments to the CEO.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary of $130,000–$180,000, plus meaningful equity participation and annual bonus eligibility.
• Medical insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• 401(k).
• Paid time off.
• Direct opportunity to build and lead the company’s global trade compliance function.
• Authority to hold shipments, transfers, or disclosures pending compliance resolution.
• Collaboration with scientists, engineers, and operators.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed