Senior Manager, Risk and Compliance

IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud provider, delivering large-scale data centers and GPU clusters for AI training and inference. IREN’s platform is underpinned by its expansive portfolio of grid-connected land and power in renewable-rich regions across North America, Europe and APAC. With 100% renewable energy, we build, own and operate our data centers and take pride in being at the forefront of sustainable solutions for high-performance compute.

We believe that human progress is invaluable, but it should be done responsibly, sustainably and with a positive impact on the communities we operate in.

This role sits within the Risk & Compliance function and reports to Director of Risk. As a NASDAQ-listed business operating across Australia, the US, Canada and Europe, IREN’s contractual and regulatory obligations have grown rapidly in number, complexity and consequence. This senior role is responsible for developing and managing the enterprise-wide contractual and regulatory compliance frameworks needed to keep pace with that growth, ensuring obligations (whether arising from material commercial agreements or from regulatory requirements) are identified, owned, tracked and met across the group.

The role covers both regulatory and contractual compliance, leaning toward regulatory matters across employment law, immigration, payroll, and privacy, with close engagement with the People and Culture team. Modern tooling and AI will be leveraged in the day‑to‑day work.

• 10+ years’ experience in risk, compliance, governance, audit, legal or commercial roles, with substantive ownership of both large and complex contractual environments and multi‑jurisdiction regulatory compliance.
• Proven experience working with complex commercial agreements and interpreting contractual/legal obligations, including supplier, customer and financing / debt agreements.
• Deep working knowledge of regulatory frameworks, ideally across at least two of Australia, the US, Canada and Europe with strong expertise in employment law, immigration, payroll compliance and privacy.
• Demonstrated ability to build frameworks, registers, governance models and processes from the ground up.
• Experience with in large, complex environments such as data centres, banking, infrastructure, energy or technology.
• Experience working closely with the People and Culture or HR functions, with an understanding of the compliance obligations for employment, workforce management and immigration.
• Genuine fluency with technology and AI as tools for solving compliance problems at scale, with concrete examples of replacing manual work with better‑designed solutions.
• A commercially pragmatic mindset, with the ability to balance risk and business outcomes.
• Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy, mobilise action and deliver outcomes in complex environments.

Regulatory compliance – IREN’s regulatory compliance framework is structured around three pillars: inform, comply and assure. The role provides strategic oversight over obligations management, uplifts compliance capability and influences the business while continuously evolving the framework.

• Inform – maintain the register of regulatory obligations applying to IREN across its operating jurisdictions; monitor regulatory change; ensure obligation owners are aware of obligations and changes that may impact their business units.
• Comply – partner with business leaders to design, implement and operate effective controls; identify instances of non‑compliance and drive remediation; own incident and breach management end‑to‑end, including implementation, reporting, root‑cause analysis and remediation tracking.
• Assure – lead risk‑based assurance activities, including periodic internal and external reviews; identify control design gaps and drive closure; coordinate periodic compliance confirmations by the Executive Leadership Team; provide assurance to the Executive and Board that regulatory obligations are being met across the group.
• The portfolio covers all applicable regulatory requirements; day‑to‑day work will lean towards employment law, immigration, payroll compliance…