Principal Compliance Officer - Information and AI

Compeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together team members with a variety of backgrounds and experiences to help provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities. Join us in a culture that not only promotes meaningful work and professional development, but provides a flexible, hybrid work environment and excellent benefits, which empower you to thrive both personally and professionally.

• Hybrid model - up to 50% work from home
• Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
• Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
• Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
• Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
• Learning and development programs
• Mentorship programs
• Cross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.)
• Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!

Casual/seasonal & intern team members are not eligible for benefits except for state-mandated programs.

This position offers a hybrid work option up to 50% and is open to any Compeer office location in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Leads compliance for the organization's information domains, including privacy, information security,information governance, and AI governance, owning the obligation framework and positions these domains rely on and leading the build and execution of the organization's AI governance program as thefield takes shape. Accountable for maintaining the compliance posture for the domains and reporting oncurrent client posture and standing for same, tracking remediation and risk acceptance as appropriate.

Come join our growing legal and compliance team!

• Owns the domain's obligation framework and compliance risk register for the domains of privacy, information security, and information governance and develops and recommends the organization's compliance positions, monitoring changes in the regulatory landscape and drawing on counsel for legal interpretation and posture recommendations.
• Develops and recommends the organization's compliance positions on AI obligations, including decisioning, data-use, and fairness, drawing on counsel for legal interpretation. Leads the development of the organization's third party risk assessment for AI, building the framework, intake, risk assessment, and controls for AI as the discipline and law take shape and setting the approach the enterprise follows.
• Owns the assurance that controls for the assigned domain, designing and running the testing and monitoring across privacy, security, information governance, and AI controls, in line with the compliance function's standards. Coordinates and tracks remediation of issues with the control owners, validating closure.
• Partners with technology, information security, data, and various affected businesses advising on the regulatory landscape, identifies and strengthens controls, lands regulatory changes into processes, and reviews their first line testing and monitoring results.
• Owns the organization's line of sight into the domains' compliance status, preparing materials that will give leadership, governance bodies, and the board a reliable view of posture and material risks.
• Prepares these domains for examination, responds to examiner requests, and drives findings to closure so leadership is equipped in examiner interactions, routing legal and position questions to counsel.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; advanced degree or Juris Doctor preferred.
• Expert-level experience in compliance, information risk, privacy, security, or technology risk within financial services or a regulated environment, including enterprise-level ownership of a compliance or risk area.
• Experience developing or standing up a governance or compliance program for an emerging area, such as artificial intelligence.
• Experience with agricultural finance, the Farm Credit System, or another regulated financial institution (preferred).
• Relevant certifications, such as an AI governance credential (IAPP AIGP), a privacy certification(CIPP/US, CIPM), IT risk or compliance credential (CRISC, CISA) (preferred).
• Expert knowledge of…