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# Global Compliance Manager at Light

- **Company:** Light
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/light-inc/507b61df-ad84-4ada-b402-aa4e4ab69d9d/application

**Skills:** SOC 1, SOC 2, PCI DSS, Cloud infrastructure, Software delivery, Evidence management, Audit request management, Remediation tracking, Fintech, Payments, Financial systems, Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, Engineering, IT operations, Security

> Owns compliance execution including SOC 1, SOC 2, and PCI DSS programmes. Coordinates audits, manages evidence collection, and partners with engineering to implement controls and ensure audit readiness.

## Job description

Retire the ERP.

Light exists to replace factory-era ERPs with software that feels alive. Our Smart Financial Platform gives modern, global companies superpowers—automated accounting, real-time reporting, and financial flows that move at the speed of the business.

We build with our customers, ship fast, and obsess over craft. In a short time, Light has gone from idea to the operating core for leading companies like Lovable, Legora, and Keyshot. People don’t just use Light—they enjoy it.

We’re an early team defining a new software category. Think engineers who love debits and credits, designers who care about reconciliation states, and operators who treat finance as a product. If you’re excited to modernize how the world runs money—one workflow at a time—you’re in the right place.

Backed by world-class investors and advised by industry titans, we’re building category-defining products with the freedom to ship ambitiously and own outcomes. Come help us make Light the global default for next-gen finance.

## THE GLOBAL COMPLIANCE MANAGER ROLE

You’ll build Light’s compliance function from the ground up. There’s no playbook yet. You’ll work across engineering, legal, and customer-facing teams to turn ambiguous requirements into a working system - owning the judgment calls and building the processes that make compliance clear, defensible, and scalable as we grow.

As fintech organisation in AI age our customers rely on us to keep their data safe, you’ll be the single point of accountability for our SOC 1, SOC 2, and PCI programmes - designing how compliance works here, not maintaining a system that already exists.

## What you'll build

- Own compliance decisions and tradeoffs across the business — there's no existing framework, you're writing it
- Interpret compliance frameworks and define the path forward for real situations as they come up
- Run SOC 1, SOC 2 (Type I & II), and PCI DSS end to end
- Build the audit calendar, evidence process, and auditor relationships
- Track findings and drive remediation to completion
- Build and maintain risk registers, exceptions, and compensating controls
- Build our customer security questionnaire and vendor due diligence process
- Partner with Finance, Engineering, and Product to embed compliance into how features get built

## How you fit in

You think like a builder, not a caretaker — energised by starting from a blank page rather than maintaining what already exists. You make decisive calls on ambiguous problems rather than waiting for someone else to define the answer, and you care more about controls that work in practice than perfect documentation. Organised, persistent, calm under pressure, and able to bring technical and non-technical people together around a system you've designed.

## Your qualifications

- 8+ years in compliance, risk, or security, ideally including experience standing up a compliance function, not just running one
- Demonstrated experience interpreting frameworks and building process from scratch
- Hands-on ownership of SOC 1, SOC 2, and/or PCI DSS
- Comfortable coordinating with engineering as a decision-maker, without doing the technical work yourself
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Comfortable using AI tools to build and scale compliance processes

Bonus points

- Experience building a compliance function at an early-stage or high-growth company
- Fintech, payments, or financial systems experience
- Compliance tooling experience (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe)
- Background in engineering, IT operations, or security

## THE GOOD STUFF

In addition to being part of a great team and working in a really fun and innovative environment, we offer:

💸 Competitive salary + stock options 🏝 25 days of annual leave + public holidays 🥳 Regular socials and company Starsite off-sites 🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you will help shape a market-defining product

## THE FAMOUS LAST WORDS

Working at Light means you are embarking on an exciting journey to reshape the future of multinational financial operations. Our cheat-code is that we have built something like this before and are now doing it again, only better. Our goal is to make global finance effortless and empower companies to make informed decisions.

Join the rocket ship while it is taking off 🚀

## About Light

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Light provides an AI-native, multi-entity financial platform (ERP) that automates global accounting, AR, AP, expenses, and financial reporting for multinational technology companies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Copenhagen, Denmark
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Jonathan Sanders (CEO) and Filip Kozjak (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Software / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) / Fintech
- **Target customers**: B2B, specifically multinational technology companies and businesses with complex multi-entity accounting needs.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build the Smart Financial Platform, redefining ERP by shipping fast, joyful features built for finance and revolutionizing the world’s largest and oldest software category. [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers)

## Products & Services
- **Light Platform (AI-Native Financial Platform)**: A unified SaaS platform that combines General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, expenses, bookkeeping, and financial reporting. It is built on a best-in-class in-memory HTAP database for instant reporting and is designed to scale to billions of transactions. Key features include immutable record keeping, AI-powered accounting (e.g., a "finance companion" for snapping receipts and answering policy questions), automated workflows, and multi-entity consolidation. [light.inc](https://light.inc/?ref_type=organic)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding: $43 Million**. This includes a $13M Seed round (led by Atomico, June 2024) and a $30M Series A (led by Balderton Capital, October 2025). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/uselightinc)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Atomico (Seed lead), Balderton Capital (Series A lead). The team is also crafted by engineers and designers from world-class companies like Spotify, X, AWS, Klarna, Google, and Shopify. [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers)
- **Growth Signals**: The company is in a "high-velocity go-to-market phase" with rapid customer onboarding. Headcount has grown **+175% year-over-year** (from ~22 to 61+ employees). The company is actively shipping features faster than ever and fielding many RFPs. [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/uselightinc)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-Native Architecture**: Unlike legacy ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite), Light is built from the ground up as an AI-first platform, enabling features like automated workflows, smart predictions, and a conversational finance assistant.
- **Performance at Scale**: Built on an in-memory HTAP (Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing) database, Light boasts sub-500ms response times for any transaction or report, even at billions of transactions, whereas competitors can take up to 100 seconds. [light.inc](https://light.inc/?ref_type=organic)
- **Immutable Ledger**: Uses an immutable ledger for perfect audit trails, a critical feature for compliance that traditional, editable databases lack. [light.inc](https://light.inc/?ref_type=organic)
- **Multi-Entity Focus**: Purpose-built to solve the extreme complexity of multinational accounting, eliminating the need for a "finance frankenstack" of multiple disconnected systems. [light.inc](https://light.inc/?ref_type=organic)

## Strategic Focus
- **Go-to-Market Velocity**: The company is aggressively scaling its sales, onboarding, and customer experience teams to capture market demand.
- **Product Velocity**: Shipping new features and improvements at a rapid pace, focusing on making the platform more intuitive and powerful.
- **Global Expansion**: With offices in London, Copenhagen, and New York, and a remote team across Europe and the Americas, Light is building a global presence to serve international customers. [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers)
- **Talent Acquisition**: Actively hiring across engineering, sales, implementation, and AI strategy to fuel its growth phase.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company values speed, simplicity, clarity, and joy. They emphasize a "joyful user experience" for both customers and employees.
- **Work Environment**: Offers a hybrid/office model with physical offices in London, Copenhagen, and New York. Employees typically work from physical offices. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/light-lightinc)
- **Perks & Benefits**: Includes healthcare benefits (dental, health, vision), life insurance, 401(K) (US), generous parental leave, company equity, and free snacks/drinks. They also have quarterly team events ("Starsite") in iconic European cities. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/light-lightinc), [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers)
- **Impact**: Opportunity to work on a "world-class" product redefining a massive, legacy software category (ERP) with a highly skilled team from top tech companies. The engineering culture is described as "crafting the AI-native financial platform" with a focus on speed and quality. [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers)

## Sources
1. [light.inc](https://light.inc/careers)
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/light-lightinc)
3. [light.inc](https://light.inc/?ref_type=organic)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/uselightinc)
5. [builtinnyc.com](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/light-lightinc)

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