or apply directly on Payhawk's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 29 days Payhawk's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 2% of Payhawk's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Payhawk
- high 42 stale, 1 reposted of 52 open
- Hiring momentum
- 62 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Payhawk's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Payhawk.
About this role
The Director of Compliance Operations at Payhawk will lead and scale the KYC and Monitoring teams, focusing on operational leadership and compliance. This role involves optimizing processes, managing performance metrics, and ensuring a customer-centric approach in compliance operations. The director will also collaborate with various teams to enhance operational efficiency through automation and AI while maintaining regulatory standards.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Payhawk as an employer.
What you need
- Proven experience leading and scaling operational teams in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
- Deep fluency in operational management, building KPIs and SLAs, capacity/FTE forecasting, and managing performance through data
- A relentless focus on process optimization and automation
- Technically minded, with a strong understanding of how AI and automation can transform operational workflows
- Comfortable being hands-on with data, querying, building dashboards, and digging into the numbers
- Experience owning third-party vendors and tooling, from selection through performance and cost management
What you get
- 30 days holiday paid leave
- Opportunity to use the Payhawk product with a monthly commuting allowance
- Health and Fitness membership
- Private healthcare
- An L&D budget to support continuous development
- Exchange policy to another Payhawk office (Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, London)
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- No information on the size of the teams being managed
- Candidates must provide proof of eligibility to work in the EU, as visa sponsorship is not available
Summarised from Payhawk's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Payhawk on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.