Senior Compliance Manager

Overview

King City Gardens is seeking a Senior Compliance Manager to lead regulatory compliance across its Ohio operations.

Level I cultivation facility, processing relationships, and dispensary operations. This role is responsible for protecting the company’s licenses, operational continuity, product integrity, and regulatory standing by ensuring that cultivation, inventory, product movement, testing, documentation, employee training, and partner coordination is performed in accordance with applicable Ohio cannabis laws, rules, and licenses requirements, and internal policies.

The Senior Compliance Manager will serve as the company’s primary internal authority for cannabis regulatory interpretation, and regulator-facing documentation. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role that requires both technical compliance knowledge and practical operational judgment.

The Senior Compliance Manager will oversee the company’s cannabis compliance program and ensure that all cultivation, post-harvest, product transfer, contracted processing, and dispensary-related activities are conducted in accordance with Ohio Division of Cannabis Control requirements, applicable statutes, and administrative rules, license conditions, and internal standard operating procedures. The role requires strong attention to detail, excellent documentation practices, practical knowledge of seed-to-sale tracking, and the ability to work confidently with cultivation, inventory, logistics, processing partners, dispensary teams, senior leadership, testing laboratories, vendors, and regulators.

This position is expected to identify compliance risks before they become operational or regulatory issues, build systems that make compliance repeatable, and provide clear guidance to managers and employees. The Senior Compliance Manager should be able to balance business urgency with disciplined regulatory controls. The role also requires fluency with AI-enabled productivity and research platforms, including tools such as Manus, Claude, ChatGPT, and similar systems, to improve compliance research, SOP drafting, audit preparation, training materials, data review, and executive reporting while maintaining appropriate confidentiality and human oversight.

• Lead and continuously improve daily compliance activities for the Level I cultivation facility, including plant tracking, harvest batch documentation, inventory reconciliation, waste documentation, destruction records, product transfers, manifests, testing coordination, packaging, labeling review, product release documentation, and required reporting.
• Maintain accurate records in the applicable seed-to-sale system and ensure that physical inventory reconciles to system inventory at all times.
• Develop, maintain, and enforce SOPs covering cultivation, harvest, drying, curing, trimming, employee conduct, visitor control, and document retention. Conduct regular internal audits and mock inspections, document findings, assign corrective actions, and verify completion.
• For processing contracts, review compliance-sensitive workflows, confirm that transfers and product movements are properly documented, coordinate required testing, and chain-of-custody records, ensuring third-party processors meet applicable compliance expectations.
• Coordinate with dispensary partners or affiliated dispensary operations to support compliant wholesale transfers, product documentation, product complaints, adverse event review, recalls, and incident response.
• Compliance Area Responsibilities:
  Cultivation compliance (plant, batch, harvest, waste, storage, quarantine, testing, and transfer records);
  Seed-to-sale tracking (Metrc or other required tracking system entries, reconciliations, tags, manifests, adjustments, transfers, and exception resolution);
  Inventory control (cycle counts, monthly audits, discrepancy investigations, quarantine reviews, and reconciliation);
  Processing contracts, documentation, testing records, product specifications, packaging, labeling review, and partner compliance follow-up;
  Dispensary support (documentation, product release, recall coordination, complaints,…