Business Risk Manager – Growth

About the opportunity

We are looking for a Business Risk Manager to join our Growth Operations team and serve as the essential guardian of our marketing integrity. At N26, we know that in a highly regulated banking environment, true disruption and sustainable growth can only happen when built on a foundation of trust and regulatory excellence.

In this role, you will be the primary bridge connecting our high-velocity Marketing teams with our Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Internal Audit functions. You will own the organisational knowledge base of our growth engine - mapping processes, resolving audit findings, and ensuring that every campaign and tool we launch meets the highest standards of compliance. If you are a proactive operator who loves bringing order to complexity and thrives on building robust, audit-ready systems that enable rather than block innovation, this is a unique opportunity to protect and accelerate our global expansion.

• Own the Growth Governance Landscape:
  Lead the end-to-end mapping of our Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring all marketing processes and tool integrations are fully compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Bridge Marketing & Compliance:
  Act as a dedicated partner for the Legal, Compliance, and Internal Audit teams, translating complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable playbooks for our Growth and Marketing teams.
• Lead Audit Resolution & Risk Mitigation:
  Take full ownership of resolving audit findings and managing business continuity, proactively identifying and closing process gaps before they impact our go-to-market speed.
• Architect the Marketing Knowledge Base:
  Build and maintain a comprehensive, accessible internal knowledge base, centralising everything from product feature playbooks to brand guidelines to ensure global consistency and seamless onboarding.
• Drive Compliance Enablement & Training:
  Develop and deliver engaging training programs for the Marketing organization so that all team members understand our regulatory obligations and feel confident following established processes.
• Ensure Regulatory Quality Control:
  Implement robust validation processes so that all marketing initiatives, from creative assets to data handling ,capture and adhere to the latest regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR, KWG, MaRisk, WpHG).

• Governance & Compliance Expertise: 3-5+ years of proven experience in process management, internal audit, risk management, or marketing compliance, ideally within a regulated industry like Fintech or Banking.
• Documentation & Workflow Management
  
  Skills:
  
  A passion for clarity with a demonstrated ability to map complex, cross-functional workflows and maintain high-quality internal documentation.
• Effective Educator & Communicator:
  The ability to take complex legal or regulatory topics and translate them into engaging training sessions and simple, actionable guidance for non-experts.
• Structural & Analytical Thinking:
  You possess a "compliance-by-design" mindset—able to look at a creative or technical process and immediately identify potential risks, missing steps, or efficiency gains.
• Stakeholder Orchestration:
  You are a collaborative communicator who can navigate technical, legal, and creative conversations, building consensus across teams with different priorities.
• Commitment to Results:
  You are a proactive operator who takes full ownership of the compliance roadmap, ensuring that audit remediations are successfully completed and seamlessly integrated into our daily workflows.

• Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s most talked about disruptors.
• Employee benefits that range from a competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, discounts to fitness & wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation.
• As an N26 employee you will have access to a Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account. As well as subscriptions for friends and family members.
• Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
• A high degree of autonomy and access to cutting edge technologies - all while working with a friendly team of peers of…