Compliance & Risk Lead (Maternity Cover)

Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better.

We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 10,000 software sellers in 300 territories globally.

As Compliance & Risk Lead, you are a key member of Paddle’s compliance team, reporting to our VP, Compliance. You work closely with legal, product, and operational teams to ensure Paddle remains compliant with global payments and fintech regulations as we scale rapidly.

The Paddle compliance function is critical to our operations and growth, enabling innovation while maintaining trust with customers and regulators. You lead the compliance team and collaborate across teams, bringing expertise in payments compliance, risk management, and reporting. You are instrumental in building robust systems to track, analyze, and report on compliance, ensuring Paddle stays ahead in a dynamic regulatory landscape.

The role is based in the UK but global in scope, reflecting Paddle’s international reach.

You will partner with our Compliance, legal and other teams across Paddle to integrate compliance into our operations, with a heightened focus on building scalable monitoring and reporting:

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