Compliance Manager
Kickstart is the Mountain West's first seed fund, founded in 2008, investing in bold, early-stage founders building companies in Utah, Colorado, and the broader Mountain West region.
About Kickstart
Kickstart is an early-stage venture capital firm founded from a trailer in New Mexico during a recession, focused on backing overlooked and outlier founders in Utah, Colorado, and the greater Mountain West territory, including Arizona, Idaho, Montana, and New Mexico. The firm typically leads pre-seed, seed, and occasional Series A rounds, setting terms, syndicating rounds, and taking board seats. Kickstart positions itself as local (with offices in Utah and Colorado), generalist in its investment approach across the innovation stack, and focused on the earliest stages of company formation. Since its founding, it has raised multiple funds (from Fund 2 at $26M up to Fund 6 at $175M) and built a network of entrepreneurs, operators, and investors across the region, serving early-stage startup founders as its primary clients.
Skills
About the Role
You will develop deep expertise in Lucid's products and technology stack to better understand data storage, user workflows, and internal processes. You'll own execution of core SaaS compliance programs including data mapping, privacy assessments, AB/AC policy implementation, global sanctions compliance, data retention policies and vendor risk management. You will proactively update and maintain compliance documentation with attention to detail, and deploy tools to track compliance related OKRs while measuring and optimizing the effectiveness of compliance programs and training initiatives. You'll monitor, analyze and report on evolving global laws and regulations affecting the SaaS space, with a focus on U.S. and EU developments, and manage controls for internal and customer-facing AI systems in alignment with emerging standards. You will partner directly with teams across Lucid to help them navigate regulatory considerations and implement controls, and design and deliver engaging, role-specific compliance training programs and awareness campaigns.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in technology, legal, regulatory or a related discipline
- 5+ years of experience in privacy or compliance management within a B2B SaaS or cloud-native environment, heavily regulated industry or at a law firm or government agency
- Strong operational understanding of global data protection laws such as GDPR and CCPA, emerging AI laws, and traditional consumer protection frameworks
- Demonstrated capability to work cross-functionally to implement compliance policies and procedures
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with ability to translate complex legal and regulatory frameworks into plain language
- Exceptional analytical skills to proactively spot control gaps, policy violations, and prioritize remediation paths
- Self-motivated with genuine curiosity for technology, rapid learning curve, and ability to take initiative and prioritize multiple urgent tasks
- Strong foundational understanding of how modern cloud software is built and how SaaS companies operate
Responsibilities
- Develop deep expertise in products and technology stack to understand data storage, user workflows, and internal processes
- Own execution of core SaaS compliance programs including data mapping, privacy assessments, AB/AC policy implementation, global sanctions compliance, data retention policies and vendor risk management
- Proactively update and maintain compliance documentation with attention to detail
- Deploy and maintain tools to track compliance related OKRs and measure and optimize effectiveness of compliance programs and training initiatives
- Monitor, analyze and report on evolving global laws and regulations affecting the SaaS space, focusing on U.S. and EU developments
- Manage controls for internal and customer-facing artificial intelligence systems in alignment with emerging standards such as EU AI Act risk classifications and ISO42001
- Partner directly with teams across the company to navigate regulatory considerations and implement controls related to products, vendors and business operations
- Design and deliver engaging role-specific compliance training programs and compliance awareness campaigns