Director of Compliance, Spark
$165-180k
+ Equity compensation
Helping Medicare brokers build the insurance business of their dreams
Open for applications
Helping Medicare brokers build the insurance business of their dreams
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$165-180k
+ Equity compensation
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help independent Medicare brokers build the insurance business of their dreams.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience in compliance roles within regulated industries, including corporate and/or Medicare compliance
- Proven track record of taking ownership of building systems, policies, and documentation in dynamic or fast-changing environments
- Experience managing escalations and investigations with sound judgment, empathy, and consistency
- Prior experience leading compliance teams or managing direct reports in a high-accountability, fast-paced environment
- Excellent communicator with deep experience collaborating cross-functionally
- Comfortable building from ambiguity and scaling structure alongside a fast-moving business
- Familiarity with Medicare compliance is a strong plus, but not required; must be excited to learn and engage with the space deeply
What the job involves
- Spark is hiring a Director of Compliance to lead and evolve our compliance organization as we scale
- This is a rare opportunity to define what best-in-class compliance looks like in Medicare distribution, an industry growing rapidly in both scale and regulatory complexity
- You’ll define how we respond to serious escalations, design systems that reduce risk at scale, and serve as a thought partner to carriers and leadership alike
- You’ll report directly to Spark’s Co-Founder and COO while collaborating closely with the broader leadership team
- We’re seeking a candidate with deep regulatory expertise—whether in Medicare or another highly complex environment—who is eager to apply their knowledge in a fast-growing startup and help shape its future
- Own the strategic vision and roadmap for compliance at Spark
- Proactively ensure our partners have the education, tools, and support they need to meet Spark’s compliance standards
- Manage Spark’s overall approach to escalations and allegations from triage through resolution and documentation
- Represent Spark to carriers and regulators, ensuring we meet our compliance commitments while earning their trust
- Design and implement scalable policies, workflows, and training that reduce compliance risk across our brokers and agency partners
- Partner across Legal, People, IT, and Success to ensure Spark stays ahead of emerging risks and regulatory expectations
- Build the structure, tools, and team needed to support Spark’s next stage of growth
- Monitor regulatory and Medicare-specific changes, guiding Spark’s response and sharing insights with both internal and external stakeholders
Our take
Medicare is the national health insurance package for US citizens over the age of 65, with most people that seek to enrol in a plan making use of brokers to help them evaluate and select options. Spark is a technology company and “concierge” service that partners with independent Medicare brokers and provides a platform that helps them navigate and build retirement benefit packages for customers.
Handling the marketing, sales support, back office, and compliance requirements of Medicare brokering, Spark bridges the gap between insurance agents and their customers. The company already has partnerships with more than 100 leading Medicare agencies that represent over 3400 brokers, a good starting point from which to grow.
Agetech is a growing market, due to an aging population and longer lifespans, and Spark has benefitted from an increased demand and interest in Medicare brokering. Highlighting this is its 2024 raise of a $25 million Series B funding round that will support its future growth and product development.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$25m
SERIES B
Jan 2023
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $53.6m
Company benefits
- Paid holidays - Everyone needs a healthy, happy, and productive life. This means you'll need time to rest & recover without restrictive holiday limits
- Flexible, remote working - We want you to work when and where you're most productive, whether you’re an early bird or a night owl
- Medical, dental and vision benefits - Enjoy the best medical, dental and optical coverage money can buy. We've got you and your family covered for all eventualities
- Meaningful equity - You’ll be contributing to the team's success, so you deserve to share in it. Everyone in our team gets a meaningful equity allocation
- Top of the line equipment - We’ll set you up with the right tools to do your best work—starting with a MacBook Pro, 4K monitors, & the right software to get the job done
- Parental Leave - Up to 12 weeks for birthing parents and up to 8 weeks for non birth parents
- 2 week Sabbatical after 5 years of employment
- Wellbeing Perks through SpringHealth, OneMedical, PerkSpot, and SoFi
- Monthly Remote Work Stipend (help cover costs of home-office needs)
- 401K
- A team that cares - You’ll be joining a team of smart, capable, helpful people that want you to win, our clients to be wowed, and our business to grow
Company values
- Take nothing for granted: We serve partners and clients with unique needs and backgrounds. Our team's empathy reflects that diversity
- Strive for excellence: We are ambitious, self-reflective and committed to growth
- Explicit accountability, broad responsibility: We clearly identify ownership, anticipate the needs of our teammates, and reward proactive initiative
- Succeed as a team: We celebrate wins, small and large, and recognize that success is a team effort
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
James Jiang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Co-Founder at Roster, Analyst at Night Owl Capital and part of the Restraucturing and Reorganisation Team at The Blackstone Group.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Spark
- At Spark, we are committed to hiring the best team to serve our clients regardless of their background. We need diverse perspectives to reflect the diversity of our problems and the population we serve. We look to hire people from a variety of backgrounds, including, but not limited to, race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, disability, and veteran status.
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