Director and Associate General Counsel, Compliance

Job Summary

Scale seeks a business-minded Director and Associate General Counsel, Compliance to lead Scale’s corporate compliance program. This role will advise on anti-bribery and anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, gifts and entertainment, third-party risk, and other sensitive corporate compliance matters. It will also lead or support privileged compliance investigations, remediation, and escalations, coordinate across Legal and with outside counsel, develop practical compliance policies, workflows, training, and reporting processes, mature Scale’s Enterprise Risk Management process, represent Scale’s corporate compliance function with internal and external stakeholders, and more.

Responsibilities

• Advise on anti-bribery and anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, gifts and entertainment, third-party risk, and other sensitive corporate compliance matters.
• Lead or support privileged compliance investigations, remediation, and escalations, coordinating across Legal and with outside counsel where matters involve potential litigation or enforcement risk.
• Develop practical compliance policies, workflows, training, and reporting processes that support Scale’s growth and IPO-readiness.
• Mature Scale’s Enterprise Risk Management process, including risk assessment methodology, risk register governance, mitigation tracking, and leadership reporting.
• Set legal standards for compliance operations, including hotline triage, sensitive matter review, policy governance, training requirements, and remediation escalation.
• Partner across Legal, GRC, Security, Product, Engineering, Finance, People, Public Sector, and other business teams on compliance and IPO-readiness.
• Represent Scale’s corporate compliance function with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, auditors, partners, and regulators.

Requirements

• JD and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 10+ years of legal experience across corporate compliance, investigations, regulatory counseling, GRC, internal controls, or related areas.
• Experience building or scaling compliance programs in high-growth technology or similarly complex environments.
• Strong experience with anti-bribery and anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, third-party risk, hotline governance, and privileged investigations.
• Experience maturing ERM, policy governance, training, remediation tracking, risk reporting, and IPO-readiness or public-company compliance.
• Strong judgment and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across legal, technical, operational, and executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Nice to haves: Experience with AI governance or regulation, familiarity with government contractor compliance, export controls, or industrial security, experience with multinational compliance programs, including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
• Retailment benefits
• A learning and development stipend
• Generous PTO
• Additional benefits such as a commuter stipend

Pay

The base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is: $302,400—$378,000 USD.

About Scale

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications. We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information. We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision.