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title: 'Director of Compliance at TXSE'
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# Director of Compliance at TXSE

- **Company:** TXSE
- **Location:** Dallas, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-07-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/txse/c9d0818e-0123-444a-8227-fdd2e6b9cd28

## Job description

Position Summary TXSE is seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Director Compliance Officer to join our growing team in Dallas. This role is critical to ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, particularly those related to Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity (Reg SCI). The ideal candidate has a strong background in financial markets, regulatory compliance, and risk management, with direct experience working at a broker-dealer or national securities exchange.

## Requirements

- Strong working knowledge of Reg SCI and Reg NMS
- General understanding of compliance program (e.g., Code of Ethics, Electronic Communications, Policy Management, etc.)
- Previous exchange compliance experience or a working technical knowledge of operations of exchange preferred
- Ability to work with multiple groups within organization (e.g., Tech Ops, Market Ops, Dev, etc.)
- Ability to advise senior management on compliance issues

Nice to Haves:

- Familiarity with Form 1 Filings
- Previous experience with Rule 19b Filings

## About TXSE

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A national securities exchange headquartered in Dallas, Texas, built to bring real competition and choice to U.S. equity markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (well-capitalized, backed by some of the largest financial institutions and liquidity providers)
- **Headquarters**: Dallas, Texas, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (SEC approved recently; temporary headquarters established in Dallas)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (leadership includes Lee as Chairman and CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial services / Securities exchange
- Target customers: B2B – U.S. and international issuers, investors, and market participants (including exchange-traded product sponsors)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Bringing greater competition, transparency, and choice to U.S. equity markets" (txse.com)

## Products & Services
- **Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE)**: A fully integrated, electronic, national securities exchange for listing and trading equities and exchange-traded products (ETPs). Provides quotation and trade-visibility services, issuer co-branding support, and a conference center for market events.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (described as "the most well-capitalized equities exchange to ever be approved by the SEC")
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly available; backed by "some of the largest financial institutions and liquidity providers in the world"
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Strategic partners include major financial institutions and liquidity providers (names not specified in available materials)
- **Growth Signals**: Building the Texas Market Center (TMC) in Dallas; actively hiring across multiple roles (IT, Compliance, Engineering) in Dallas and New York; expanding its listing and trading ecosystem

## Competitive Advantages
- Only national securities exchange built, headquartered, and incorporated in Texas, offering a differentiated geographic and regulatory position.
- Issuer-aligned and transparent standards designed to compete with incumbent exchanges.
- Backed by deep-pocketed institutional investors, providing strong capitalization and credibility.
- Fully electronic infrastructure with a focus on modern market structure.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities include establishing the exchange as a viable alternative for corporate listings, expanding its suite of exchange-traded products, and building out the Texas Market Center as a physical hub for market ceremonies and issuer services.
- Growing the team across technology, compliance, operations, and trading to support exchange launch and ongoing operations.

## Why Work Here
- Opportunity to be part of a historic launch of a new national securities exchange, with the chance to shape its culture and technology from the ground up.
- Hybrid and on-site roles available in Dallas, TX and New York, NY (roles include Site Reliability Engineer, Senior Systems Architect, Director of Compliance).
- Leadership team combines deep expertise in market structure, regulation, and corporate governance.
- Culture emphasizes transparency, competition, and long-term alignment with issuers and investors.
- Perks not explicitly detailed, but the exchange is well-capitalized and growing, suggesting competitive compensation and a dynamic startup-like environment within a regulated industry.

## Sources
1. [txse.com/careers](https://www.txse.com/careers)
2. [jobs.lever.co/txse](https://jobs.lever.co/txse)
3. [txse.com](https://www.txse.com/)
4. [txse.com/about-us](https://www.txse.com/about-us)
5. [txse.com/leadership](https://www.txse.com/leadership)

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