Director, Product Risk and Compliance

Discord's Legal team is looking for a Director, Product Risk and Compliance to lead our global product compliance function, focusing on privacy, safety, security, and consumer protection. This is a senior leadership role: you’ll be Discord's internal voice on what our product risk and compliance posture actually looks like — and what we should do about it. This role requires both operational rigor — building the systems and rhythms that keep us ahead of our obligations — and genuine subject matter depth across privacy, safety, and security compliance. It reports to Discord's Senior Director, Product Law. This role can be based in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, or Washington, DC.

What you'll be doing

• Lead three teams — privacy compliance, safety and revenue compliance, and security GRC — bringing them under a unified operating philosophy and setting clear direction on priorities, maturity targets, and program development
• Partner with product and engineering teams to identify and navigate compliance obligations and build sustainable controls — providing substantive guidance on privacy, safety, and security requirements
• Own Discord's product risk registers across privacy, safety, and security — identifying and tracking risks, driving consistent risk scoring, and leading remediation and gap-closing efforts in partnership with the business
• Build and maintain a control library and compliance maturity framework that gives us a clear picture of where we are and where we need to go — and helps us get there in a prioritized way
• Produce risk and compliance reporting calibrated to different audiences inside the company, from team leads to senior leadership, feeding into Discord's broader enterprise risk processes
• Lay the foundation for audits and potential certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, and others as they arise)
• Work cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Security, Policy, and Trust & Safety to make sure compliance considerations are integrated into planning processes and how we build our product
• Serve as a credible, trusted voice on product risk and compliance at every level of the company — able to walk into a room with senior leadership and make the case for what matters, what doesn't, and what realisti