Senior Program Manager, Compliance

The posting, as Justworks wrote it

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

Justworks is seeking a Senior Program Manager, Compliance to lead planning, governance, and execution across the Product Compliance portfolio. You thrive in highly regulated environments where priorities evolve quickly and complex work spans multiple teams. You understand compliance, risk, controls, and operations—not necessarily because you're the deepest subject matter expert in every area, but because you know how to bring the right experts together and translate complex priorities into action. You are equal parts strategic planner, program leader, and operational problem solver. You bring structure to ambiguity, connect work across teams, identify risks and dependencies early, and create the transparency and accountability needed to drive complex initiatives through completion. You are comfortable partnering across Compliance, Operations, Product, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, Legal, Internal Audit, Security, and other teams to strengthen compliance while enabling the business to scale.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

Drive the Product Compliance Portfolio

• Develop and maintain an integrated view of Product Compliance priorities, initiatives, milestones, dependencies, and risks.
• Partner with Product Compliance leadership to prioritize work based on regulatory risk, business impact, dependencies, and available capacity.
• Translate priorities into executable plans with clear ownership, sequencing, milestones, and outcomes.
• Establish planning and reporting rhythms that provide leadership with visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, and areas requiring intervention.
• Drive initiatives through completion and ensure identified issues are tracked to sustainable resolution.

Lead Complex Cross-Functional Programs

• Lead complex programs that span Product Compliance and cross-functional partners, particularly where successful outcomes require coordinated changes across Operations, Product, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, Legal, Internal Audit, or other teams.
• Drive program structure, planning, coordination, execution, and escalation while partnering with subjec

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ased in our New York City Office is targeted at $121,000.00 - $151,000.00 per year.

Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.

For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks .

Diversity At Justworks

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com . Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.

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