Head of Compliance - Platforms
Head of Compliance - Platforms at nium — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: nium
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $184,000–$230,000 a year
- Posted: 2026-09-30
About this role
Nium, Global Leader in Payments
Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders.
Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 220+ markets, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 35 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore.
About the Role
Nium is seeking a Head of Compliance - Platforms to serve as the senior Compliance partner to the Platforms business. This role will work closely with Sales, Business Development, Partnerships, Account Management, Product, Legal, and Nium's country compliance teams to identify regulatory considerations early, incorporate local requirements into commercial strategy, and enable compliant opportunities across the Platforms vertical.
The successful candidate will provide practical guidance on complex enterprise relationships, particularly platforms and marketplaces that use Nium's solutions to serve their own merchants or customers. This is a commercially focused Compliance role centered on structuring deals, supporting new platform models and use cases, and enabling responsible growth. The role will also own Compliance outcomes for relationships with bank partners, card networks, stablecoin networks, and other payment infrastructure partners.
While this role does not directly own regulatory relationships or license-protection responsibilities, the successful candidate will bring a deep understanding of these areas and apply that knowledge to provide practical guidance to commercial teams. They will also work closely with Nium's country Compliance teams.
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