NinjaHoldings

About Us

Founded in 2017, NinjaHoldings is revolutionizing financial services for everyday Americans through its CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands. We empower individuals overlooked by traditional institutions with digital banking and lending products, guiding them toward financial improvement with incentives and rewards. Our EDGE brand assists companies in understanding their customers through bespoke underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. With offices in Chicago and Miami, and a global remote workforce, we are a lean, innovative team seeking like-minded talent to disrupt consumer finance.

About the Role

We are seeking a Compliance & Legal Project Manager to lead and drive initiatives from both the Compliance and Legal departments. This role is ideal for candidates with strong product or management backgrounds, adept at decomposing complex requirements, coordinating cross-functional teams, and delivering results in regulated environments. The focus is on program management and execution, not regulatory interpretation or legal decision-making, ensuring compliance and legal work progresses efficiently and visibly.

Location & Work Model

Compliance leadership is based in Sarasota, FL, and Legal leadership is in Chicago, IL. This role reports through Compliance, with a strong partnership to Legal, regardless of the candidate's primary location. Preference will be given to candidates based in Chicago, IL or Sarasota, FL.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the Compliance Program Build Jira space for tracking compliance and legal initiatives.
• Intake and prioritize initiatives from Compliance and Legal departments.
• Own and drive cross-functional Epics from definition to completion.
• Translate compliance and legal requirements into clear execution plans.
• Coordinate execution across Compliance, Legal, Product, Engineering, Operations, and external partners.
• Ensure required legal and bank reviews and approvals are obtained, documented, and tracked.
• Identify and escalate risks, dependencies, and blockers proactively.
• Provide clear status updates and delivery visibility to leadership, ensuring initiatives close with proper validation, approvals, and retained evidence.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 5+ years of experience as a Program Manager, Product Manager, Project Manager, or similar role.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex, cross-team initiatives.
• Experience in regulated industries is strongly preferred.
• Comfort working closely with Engineering, Product, Compliance, and Legal teams.
• Strong experience using Jira for managing cross-functional work, including Epics, stories, and linked workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a program build or initiative board coordinating work executed by other teams.
• Familiarity with software development lifecycles, release processes, and change management protocols.
• Experience operating in controlled or regulated change environments.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills.

Additional Pluses

• Experience supporting Compliance, Legal, Audit, or Risk teams.
• Fintech, banking, payments, or consumer finance experience.
• Familiarity with data validation or reporting workflows.
• Experience coordinating work involving external partners or regulators.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Flexible, remote work options.
• Fun, fast-paced work environment.
• Dynamic start-up culture.
• Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth-stage company.
• Convenient downtown Chicago office location.
• Equal opportunity employer.