Compliance Officer at Thatch
About the role
At Thatch, we're scaling rapidly to transform how people experience healthcare, and we need a compliance leader who can grow with us.
Your background might include banking or securities compliance, insurance regulation and risk management, or similar regulatory roles. This role offers the opportunity to apply and expand your expertise across financial services, health insurance, and tax regulations to ensure our business activities meet all regulatory obligations.
You'll work to shape compliance strategy and focus on execution. Your core responsibilities will include helping teams implement robust procedures and developing, monitoring, and testing frameworks for our control environment. You will also help to shape company policy to leverage compliance to build Thatch safely and collaborate closely with our product team to embed compliance into our designs, and lead staff training initiatives.
We're looking for someone with strong opinions on risk-based compliance approaches who understands how to build scalable control environments, is excited to utilize modern tooling (including AI) to build better solutions, and can both design and manage complex processes effectively.
What you'll do
- Develop and implement comprehensive monitoring and testing frameworks to ensure regulatory compliance and proactively identify potential risks
- Monitor regulatory developments and market trends to maintain current policies, procedures, and compliance programs
- Partner with cross-functional teams to provide compliance guidance and ensure adherence to regulatory requirements
- Design and deliver targeted employee training programs that effectively communicate compliance policies and procedures
- Support management decision-making through compliance analysis, business activity oversight, and comprehensive recordkeeping
Background we're looking for
- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of compliance experience across financial services, securities, health insurance, or tax regulations
- Proven ability to deliver clear, actionable guidance in fast-paced, rapidly evolving environments at a growing company
- Strategic mindset with deep regulatory curiosity — you excel at navigating complex, overlapping compliance requirements while keeping customer experience at the center
- Strong communication skills and collaborative approach to problem-solving
Experience we’d be particularly excited about
- Built compliance programs from the ground up in startup or high-growth environments
- Forward-thinking approach with strong instincts for designing scalable solutions that work long-term
- Highly adaptable and quick learner who thrives in dynamic, evolving regulatory landscapes
- Tech-savvy compliance mindset with experience evaluating and implementing modern compliance tools and solutions, including use of AI tooling
- Good sense of humor… you work in compliance, so it’s ok if it is a little dark
What to expect
We interview rigorously based on integrity, talent, and drive; the trust we display in our teammates from day 1 is a reflection of the confidence we have in this process. We aim to evaluate the things you’ll be doing every day as best we can, and we move quickly. Here's what to expect:
- 15 minute phone screen to talk through your background and interest in Thatch
- 30 minute Zoom meeting with the hiring manager to dive deeper into your experience and the role
- 30 minute Zoom meeting to meet 4 members of the team
- 30 minute Zoom meeting with our founders to discuss your approach to culture and our operating principles