- 12+ years of experience in compliance, risk management, or a related field, with demonstrated experience leading compliance functions across multiple subject matter areas.
- Breadth across at least two core domains: privacy (GDPR, CCPA, global frameworks), online safety and content regulation (DSA, COPPA, children's safety laws), or security compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF).
- Experience owning risk registers, building and maintaining control libraries, setting maturity targets, and producing risk reporting for different audiences.
- Experience managing teams across multiple compliance disciplines, with the people management and prioritization skills to lead a function of seven or more people across three distinct areas.
- Strong executive communication skills, able to represent risk and compliance posture clearly and credibly to senior leadership, make realistic tradeoffs, and bring stakeholders along.
- A real point of view on how compliance programs should be built and run, adaptable to Discord's stage, culture, and risk profile.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information.