Goodstack
Senior Compliance and Risk Manager
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Senior Compliance and Risk Manager
Senior Compliance & Risk Manager – Goodstack
If you’ve been looking to join a fast-growing startup with a bold vision of a world where doing good is built into everything we do, then you’ve found the right place.
Backed by General Catalyst, the same investors behind Stripe and Airbnb, we’re building something truly extraordinary.
Our Mission
Our mission at Goodstack is to revolutionise how the world does good 🌎.
As a fast-growth, AI-native social impact startup, we power global change through technology. We enable companies to seamlessly integrate positive impact into what they do through a unified platform while supporting nonprofits in gaining access to cutting-edge technology and finding new funding streams.
Global brands, including Google, OpenAI, TikTok, LinkedIn, HSBC, Atlassian and Twilio – as well as thousands of nonprofits, including the Red Cross, Cancer Research, and Oxfam – use Goodstack to make a difference.
In 2025 alone, we facilitated $5 billion in donations to good causes. But this is just the beginning. We're building the world’s leading platform that powers donations to non-profits globally.
About the Role
Goodstack is building the infrastructure that powers charitable giving globally. As we scale our platform, Foundation network, and payments ecosystem, we're looking for an experienced compliance leader to evolve our compliance capabilities.
This is an opportunity to shape Goodstack’s compliance programme, building practical, scalable frameworks that support our continued growth.
You'll work closely with teams across Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Leadership to embed compliance into how we design, launch, and scale our products and services.
Reporting to the Head of Global Giving, you'll own Goodstack's compliance programme across both charitable and payments activities.
Key Responsibilities
As Senior Compliance & Risk Manager, your mission will be to:
Compliance Strategy & Governance
- Lead and evolve Goodstack’s compliance approach as the business scales.
- Design practical, risk-based controls across payments, charitable giving, and Foundation operations.
- Act as a trusted partner on compliance risk, regulatory change, and industry best practice in fintech and payments.
- Ensure our platform and Foundation network operate within relevant regulatory and governance requirements.
Compliance & Payments Operations
- Build scalable approaches to KYC, AML, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and enhanced due diligence.
- Own the end-to-end compliance control framework for high-risk users/orgs, transactions, and partners.
- Improve and automate compliance processes to support high-volume, global payment flows.
- Lead compliance training and embed good practice across operational teams.
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Product & Business Partnership
- Partner with Product and Engineering to design compliance into systems, workflows, and user journeys from day one.
- Help define how controls are implemented in product (rules, triggers, thresholds, monitoring, escalation paths).
- Act as a key decision-maker in product development, balancing risk, customer experience, and commercial priorities.
- Support launch readiness for new products, markets, and payment flows.
Monitoring, Risk & Reporting
- Monitor compliance performance across live systems and transactions.
- Investigate and resolve complex or high-risk issues in real time.
- Translate regulatory and scheme requirements into clear, implementable product and operational requirements.
- Provide clear input to leadership on risk trade-offs and emerging issues.
Team Leadership
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing compliance team.
- Establish clear processes, responsibilities, and performance standards across the function.
- Act as an escalation point for complex compliance and risk decisions.
Requirements
This role is a perfect match for you if you have:
- Significant experience in compliance, financial crime, risk, or payments operations.
- Experience in fintech, payments companies, marketplaces, or high-growth startup environments.
- Strong working knowledge of AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, and risk-based controls.
- Experience working directly with Product and Engineering to implement compliance or risk controls in systems.
- Proven ability to build operational processes, frameworks, and teams in fast-moving environments.
- Strong analytical judgement and ability to make pragmatic decisions in ambiguous, real-time situations.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence across Product, Engineering, and Operations.
- Experience in nonprofit, charitable, foundation, or grantmaking compliance is highly desirable.
Benefits
💰 Salary reviews and share options are becoming an integral part of our growth and share in the company’s success.
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💝 Goodstack’s Workplace Giving
⚕️ Vitality Plus – Private health insurance
🌞 £250 Brighten your day annual budget
🤓 £1000 Learning & development annual budget
📚 Goodstack library
🌯 Tasty Tuesdays! Office lunch is on the company.
🏃♀️ Slow run club, Wednesdays
⭐️ Paid days off to volunteer for nonprofit causes
🎤 Paid days to attend conferences
🎉 Paid day off on your birthday!
🌴 25 days annual leave, plus paid public holidays
💙 Paid sick leave
🧘 Paid wellness leave
🌱 Parental leave
🏡 Workplace nursery scheme
🪑 Pension (with tax-efficient salary sacrifice option)
🚴 UK cycle-to-work scheme
🌳 Ecologi carbon offsetting
⚖️ Flexible working hours
🖥️ WFH budget upon joining
🏛️ You're always welcome to pop in more for a buzz if you enjoy the office vibe – our warm, friendly space is located right in the heart of London.
About Us
Since 2017, Goodstack has been at the forefront of creating a future where good will be built into everything we do. From daily commutes to weekend activities or grocery shopping, we envision a world where creating positive change is seamlessly integrated into our everyday lives.
Businesses are expected to deliver on both profit and purpose, and those that don’t are falling behind. We’re here to make it easy for any company, anywhere in the world, to integrate good into what they do. Doing this empowers everyone – companies, employees, consumers, and communities – to contribute to positive change and take meaningful action.
Let's do this! 💜
Our Pledge to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We take pride in our diverse and growing team, representing 20+ nationalities across 5 continents 🌍! Our continued expansion provides opportunities to embrace and celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences – essential to our success.
We actively seek and welcome applicants from all walks of life, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
A team that represents the world we are trying to support is a wiser, more knowledgeable and stronger one. We’re excited for you to bring your experience, yourselves, and that all-important special twist to Goodstack to propel us forward in creating a better world for us all.
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