- 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, and global privacy 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 our risk and compliance posture clearly and credibly to senior leadership, make realistic tradeoffs out loud, and bring stakeholders along without overpromising
- A real point of view on how compliance programs should be built and run, and the ability to adapt that philosophy to Discord's stage, culture, and risk profile
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information