Director / Senior Director of Compliance
ID.me
Mountain View, California
Full-Time
$230,000
RemoteDirector
ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with ID.me once and seamlessly login across websites without having to create a new login and verify their identity again. Over 152 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 45 state government agencies, and 70+ healthcare organizations. More than 600+ consumer brands use ID.me to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. ID.mes technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me is committed to No Identity Left Behind to enable all people to have a secure digital identity. To learn more, visit https://network.id.me/.
Location: Mountain View, CA (on-site) Reports to: VP of GRC / Deputy CISO Department: Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance
id.me operates one of the most highly regulated identity verification platforms in the country. Our compliance programs span FedRAMP, NIST 800-63 (Rev 3 and Rev 4), SOC 2, ISO 27001, IRS Pub 4812, and a growing portfolio of federal and commercial audit obligations.
We're looking for a compliance leader who believes that compliance done right is a byproduct of well-engineered systems not a parallel bureaucracy. The right person will transform how compliance operates: from manual evidence gathering and heroic individual effort to automated, continuous, and scalable.
This is not a role for someone who wants to maintain the status quo. If your instinct when a deadline is at risk is to throw more hours at it instead of asking "why isn't this automated?", this isn't the right fit.
People-first leadership. You have built and grown compliance teams. You hold regular 1:1s, create career development plans, and invest in making your people better not just getting work done. You delegate effectively and build systems where knowledge survives individual absence. If you're "too busy" for your team, you're not operating at the right altitude.
Communication clarity. You give crisp, direct answers to strategic questions. "What does success look like in 30 days?" gets a two-sentence answer, not a monologue. You write clearly. You adjust your communication to your audience board members, engineers, auditors, PMs without losing precision.
Partnership over gatekeeping. Engineering and Product are your customers, not your adversaries. You default to "how do we make this work safely?" not "this is not allowed." When you say no, you explain why in terms the other person values and offer an alternative path. You build relationships with stakeholders proactively you don't wait for escalations.
Automation conviction. You believe compliance should be engineered, not administered. You champion tooling that automates evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and control validation. You actively resist the instinct to throw manual labor at deadline pressure. You think more like an engineering director than a traditional compliance director systems, leverage, elimination of toil.
Self-directing execution. You operate with minimal management. You identify what needs to happen, build a plan, execute it, and communicate upward proactively. You don't wait to be told. You manage up effectively your leadership always knows where things stand without having to ask.
Base Salary: $230,000$320,000
Bonus: 2025%, depending on level
Equity: Competitive
The annual base salary listed does not include a company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity and benefits which will be determined based on experience, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location and role.
ID.me offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts), basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, ability to participate in unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays, short and long-term disability insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, referral bonus policy, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistant program, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and a learning and development benefit.
The above represents the anticipated total rewards package for this job requisition. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors.
ID.me is a full-time, in-office culture. Unless a specific job description explicitly states otherwise, all roles are on-site five days per week at one of our offices in McLean, VA; Mountain View, CA; New York City, NY; or Tampa, FL. Certain roles such as field-based sales or other remote-by-design positions may have different work arrangements as noted in their individual postings.
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