Compliance Manager

About Ethos

Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get life insurance for the next million families. Our approach blends industry expertise, technology, and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones. 

We leverage deep technology and data science to streamline the life insurance process, making it more accessible and convenient. Using predictive analytics, we are able to transform a traditionally multi-week process into a modern digital experience for our users that can take just minutes! We’ve issued billions in coverage each month and eliminated the traditional barriers, ushering the industry into the modern age. Our full-stack technology platform is the backbone of family financial health.

We make getting life insurance easier, faster and better for everyone. 

Our investors include General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, SoftBank, and the investment vehicles of Jay-Z, Kevin Durant, Robert Downey Jr and others. This year, we were named on CB Insights' Global Insurtech 50 list and BuiltIn's Top 100 Midsize Companies in San Francisco. We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to protect the next million families! 

About the Role

Ethos is seeking an experienced and energetic Compliance Manager to join our Compliance department as a senior leader. This person will work proactively with internal teams to identify risks, both emerging and present, and then help to develop and drive practical solutions. You will have a broad understanding of insurance operations and experience in a variety of compliance roles. You will be expected to drive thought leadership on Compliance matters across Ethos and specifically will act as thought leader for our Compliance Risk Management and Regulatory Change Management programs and related key compliance risks across Ethos. Importantly, the candidate must be flexible, willing to work extended hours when necessary, be a team player, be business-minded, confident in determining acceptable risk, and think creatively to always find solutions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee the following program, and related controls, including thought leadership for ongoing risk mitigation:
• Compliance Risk Management (“CRM”) program (a consistent, continuous, and disciplined methodology to proactively identify, monitor, assess, test, communicate, and respond to existing, new, and emerging compliance risks enabling efficient oversight and business growth.) Including but not limited to:
• Inherent risk assessment
• Control identification and definition
• Ongoing monitoring and testing of first line controls
• Residual risk assessment
• CRM program governance
• CRM program reporting
• CRM program KRIs
• Regulatory change management
• Assist in drafting and updating compliance policies and procedures
• Assist with responding to internal and third party audit support, including any market conduct exams, regulatory requests, carrier requests, and data calls
• Provide general compliance support, as needed, across the team and company, including research and provisioning of compliance guidance across Ethos

Qualifications and Skills:

• 7+ years of relevant Compliance work experience in the insurance industry
• Be highly responsive and service-oriented, with a demonstrated ability to maintain strong working relationships with demanding internal clients
• Strategic thinking on proactive compliance risk mitigation
• Proactive thought leadership for Compliance broadly and CRM controls specifically, within the insurance industry
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Persuasive communicator and thought leader
• Possess sound and practical business judgment
• Strong understanding of Compliance Risk Management
• Strong governance background
• Strong understanding of regulatory change management
• Ability to multi-task and work independently or with cross-functional teams, while adapting quickly to ambiguous and rapidly changing environments
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple deadlines

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Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.

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