Senior Lead, Ethics & Compliance

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.

As a company, we constantly challenge what's possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.

The Senior Lead, Ethics & Compliance, is a senior subject-matter expert and program owner responsible for building, maturing, and leading critical components of Rivian's global ethics and compliance program, with a primary focus on antibribery, anticorruption, anti-money-laundering, and knowyourcustomer risk management. You will translate regulatory expectations and best practices into a strategic roadmap, robust controls, and measurable outcomes that protect Rivian while enabling intelligent risktaking.

Reporting to Rivian's Director, Ethics & Compliance in the Legal organization, you will work with significant autonomy and serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across the company. You will lead crossfunctional workstreams, influence governance forums, and help evolve Rivian's Compliance Risk Oversight Program, with opportunities to shape approaches across a portfolio of more than 40 ethics and compliance risk areas over time.

Why This Role Matters

• You set the strategic direction for Rivian's ethics and compliance programs in antibribery, anticorruption, antimoney laundering, and knowyourcustomer (ABAC/AML/KYC), including program expectations tied to Rivian's multibilliondollar DOE loan and related oversight requirements.

• You enable executivelevel, riskaware decisionmaking by designing and owning risk assessments, metrics, dashboards, and reporting that elevate ethics and compliance oversight across Rivian's global footprint.

• You are a key architect of Rivian's culture of integrity, driving policies, training, communications, and guidance that make ethics and compliance practical, accessible, and embedded in how teams operate daytoday.

• You act as a crossfunctional leader and subject matter expert, aligning Legal, Finance, Risk, operations, and other stakeholder groups around scalable, techforward controls that can keep pace with rapid growth and regulatory complexity.

• Set and execute the strategy for Rivian's ABAC, AML, and KYC program components, aligning them with regulatory expectations, DOE loan requirements, and Rivian's broader risk appetite and business objectives.

• Develop, implement, and oversee compliancerelated policies, procedures, training, risk assessments, and controls connected to the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and associated policies, driving continuous improvement and scalability.

• Lead complex ethics, compliance, and business conduct advisory work, including conflicts of interest, business courtesies and gifts, records and information management, and sensitive reports or allegations that may require investigation or escalation.

• Direct gap assessments of existing compliancerelated programs and control environments against current and emerging regulatory frameworks, industry standards, and enforcement trends, then translate findings into prioritized remediation plans.

• Design and implement program enhancements and control frameworks for ABAC/AML/KYC, ensuring clear ownership, documented procedures, effective monitoring, and practical enablement for business partners worldwide.

• Build and lead crossfunctional risk partnerships with Legal, Finance, Internal Audit, Procurement, Operations, Security, and other stakeholders to support riskinformed decisionmaking, mitigation planning, and sustainable implementation of compliance programs.

• Increase employee awareness and engagement by shaping enterprise and local communications, toneatthetop and toneinthemiddle messaging, and practical ethics and compliance guidance, toolkits, and resources that help teams do the right thing in ambiguous situations.

• Develop, analyze, and mature risk metrics, dashboards, and reports that enable effective oversight of ethics and compliance programs and control environments by the Ethics & Compliance team, executive leadership, and governance bodies, including preparation of executiveready materials.

• Support and, when appropriate, lead compliancerelated inquiries, audits, and investigations by internal teams, external parties, and regulatory authorities, ensuring rigorous documentation, coordination, and followthrough on corrective actions.

• Provide mentorship and thought leadership to other team members and crossfunctional partners to raise the overall maturity and impact of ethics and compliance at Rivian.

• Perform other related duties as required to support the growth, innovation, and effectiveness of Rivian's ethics and compliance function.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in business, law, finance, risk management, or a related field required.

• 8+ years of professional experience in multinational, complex, fastgrowing global organizations, ideally involving technology and/or manufacturing environments.

• 5+ years of direct experience in ethics, compliance, and/or risk management, or in related areas such as legal, consulting, audit, or lineofdefense roles with meaningful ownership of compliance or financial crime programs.

• Demonstrated, seniorlevel proficiency in risk management related to antibribery, anticorruption, and antimoney laundering / knowyourcustomer programs, including designing, implementing, and enhancing program elements in practice.

• Proven experience developing and executing risk assessments, performing gap analyses, and turning insights into prioritized, resourced, and executed remediation or enhancement plans.

• Track record of operating as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, including experience preparing and delivering clear, concise, and insightrich reporting and analysis for executives and governance forums.

• Strong organizational, program management, and operational planning skills, with a demonstrated ability to lead complex, crossfunctional initiatives, manage multiple highimpact projects, and consistently meet deadlines in a rapidly changing environment.

• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across functions and levels, including with technical, operational, and commercial teams, while maintaining a high level of integrity, sound judgment, and discretion.

Preferred:

• Advanced degree (e.g., JD, MBA, or master's in a related field).

• Professional certifications in compliance, ethics, or financial crime (e.g., CCEP, CAMS, CFE, CRCM).

• Experience building or scaling ABAC and/or AML/KYC programs in organizations subject to U.S. federal oversight, government funding requirements, or complex global regulatory regimes.

• Background working with or within technology, automotive, manufacturing, or other highly regulated, assetintensive industries, ideally in a growth or transformation phase.

• Experience contributing to or managing multiriskarea compliance oversight programs spanning domains such as antitrust/competition, trade compliance, privacy and security, environment, health & safety, investigations oversight, and thirdparty risk management.

Salary Range California-Based Applicants: $176,200 - $200,300 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).

Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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