Compliance Manager - Global Lab Environment
Molten Ventures (formerly Draper Esprit) is a European venture capital firm that has spent twenty years backing founders and innovators driving Europe's technology transformation. It invests capital alongside experience, energy, and partnership to help visionary technology companies scale, serving high-growth startups and scale-ups across Europe.
About Molten Ventures
Molten Ventures is a publicly listed venture capital firm focused on backing visionary founders building Europe's technology future. Beyond providing capital, the firm offers portfolio companies experience, energy, and partnership to help them scale faster and go further. Its portfolio includes companies that have collectively reached more than 50 million customers, crossed the $200m ARR mark, sold more than 7 million devices, and achieved notable public market outcomes including IPOs at market caps of £1bn and nearly £9bn. The firm operates seed funds, evaluates new investment opportunities and pitch decks from founders, maintains an investor portal for its shareholders, and publishes sustainability reporting covering responsible investment and portfolio engagement practices.
Skills
About the Role
You will define, implement, and scale security and compliance frameworks across our global lab environments. You'll secure sensitive hardware, enforce access controls, and ensure engineering data and infrastructure meet required compliance standards. You will establish robust processes around lab zoning, asset tracking, and network segmentation while partnering with engineering teams across multiple locations, including our new AI Engineering Campus in Austin. You'll work closely with hardware engineers, IT, and security stakeholders to embed compliance controls into lab environments and operational workflows.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience implementing physical access control and lab zoning
- Having worked in labs, data centers, or hardware engineering environments
- Practical experience with network segmentation and access control
- Experience running hardware asset tracking, inventory, and custody
- Experience working in secure infrastructure or lab bring-up environments
- Strong understanding of operational security controls in technical environments
- Exposure to export-controlled environments
- Experience in AI, HPC, semiconductor, or hardware validation labs
- Familiarity with BMC / out-of-band (OOB) networks and rack-level infrastructure
- Solid understanding of ISO 27001, SOC 2, or NIST frameworks (practical application preferred)
Responsibilities
- Define and implement physical access controls, including lab zoning and restricted areas
- Ensure sensitive hardware is secured and not exposed within lab environments
- Enforce network division and permission management across mixed infrastructure environments
- Coordinate hardware asset monitoring, inventory oversight, and chain-of-custody activities
- Support secure lab bring-up and infrastructure deployment activities
- Implement and scale compliance controls across global engineering labs
- Partner with engineering departments to ensure secure handling of engineering data through approved systems
- Supervise and improve compliance with internal security policies and external standards
- Contribute to the development of secure infrastructure practices within AI and hardware environments
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Commuter benefits
- Wellness services
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)