DraftKings

Compliance Manager, Predictions

DraftKings$100K — $126K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years experience in compliance, risk, or regulatory operations related to financial services.
  • Knowledge of regulatory frameworks governing prediction markets and financial markets.
  • Familiarity with Commodity Exchange Act, CFTC regulations, and NFA rules.
  • Experience with regulatory examinations and compliance testing.
  • Ability to identify compliance risks and recommend solutions.
  • Collaborative approach with strong ethical decision-making.

Responsibilities

  • Enhance the compliance program for prediction markets per regulatory requirements.
  • Manage daily compliance tasks, including monitoring and reporting.
  • Respond to regulatory inquiries and audits in collaboration with leadership.
  • Translate regulatory guidelines into practical business processes.
  • Develop and enhance compliance policies and internal controls.
  • Monitor compliance risks and drive timely issue remediation.
  • Prepare reports and presentations on compliance activities and risks.

Benefits

  • Guidance through obtaining required gaming licenses for relevant roles.
  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic, regulated gaming technology environment.
  • Engagement with a diverse range of cross-functional teams.
  • Potential for bonus and equity participation.
Full Job Description
The Crown Is Yours

As a Compliance Manager focused on Predictions, you'll help shape the compliance foundation for one of DraftKings' newest regulated offerings. You'll partner across Compliance, Legal, Engineering, Operations, Marketing, and other teams to help build and scale a robust compliance program that supports innovation while meeting regulatory expectations. Every day, you'll help ensure our prediction market offering operates with integrity, transparency, and a strong commitment to customer protection in an evolving regulatory landscape.

What you'll do as a Compliance Manager, Predictions
  • Support the execution and continuous enhancement of the compliance program for DraftKings' prediction market offering, ensuring alignment with Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulations, National Futures Association (NFA) requirements, and internal policies.
  • Manage day-to-day compliance activities, including monitoring, issue management, documentation, control execution, and ongoing compliance reporting.
  • Partner with Legal and Compliance leadership to respond to regulatory inquiries, examinations, audits, self-certifications, and other information requests.
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Marketing, Operations, and other cross-functional teams to translate regulatory requirements into scalable business processes, platform enhancements, and go-to-market initiatives.
  • Develop, maintain, and enhance compliance policies, procedures, playbooks, and internal controls across areas including market surveillance, anti-money laundering and know your customer (AML/KYC), customer protection, marketing compliance, and information security.
  • Monitor compliance risks by reviewing alerts, documenting findings, escalating potential issues, and helping drive timely remediation.
  • Improve compliance operations by enhancing reporting, automation, tooling, and governance processes as the business continues to grow.
  • Prepare dashboards, reports, and presentations that communicate compliance activities, regulatory developments, emerging risks, and key metrics to internal stakeholders.


What you'll bring
  • A Bachelor's Degree with at least 5 years of experience in compliance, risk, regulatory operations, legal, audit, or a related function within a futures commission merchant (FCM), designated contract market (DCM), derivatives clearing organization (DCO), introducing broker (IB), financial services organization, or regulatory agency.
  • Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks governing prediction markets, commodities, derivatives, financial markets, fintech, or other highly regulated industries.
  • Familiarity with the Commodity Exchange Act, CFTC regulations, CFTC Core Principles, NFA rules, market surveillance, AML/KYC requirements, compliance monitoring, or related regulatory programs.
  • Experience supporting regulatory examinations, audits, compliance testing, policy implementation, internal controls, or regulatory reporting.
  • Sound judgment with the ability to identify potential compliance risks, recommend practical solutions, and escalate issues when appropriate.
  • A collaborative, solutions-oriented mindset, a strong commitment to ethical decision-making, and genuine interest in helping shape an emerging regulated market.


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Join Our Team

We're a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don't worry, we'll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is 100,800.00 USD - 126,000.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable. Our ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The compensation information displayed on each job posting reflects the range for new hire pay rates for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range and how that was determined during the hiring process.

About DraftKings

DraftKings is an American daily fantasy sports contest and sports betting operator. The company allows users to enter daily and weekly fantasy sports–related contests and win money based on individual player performances in five major American sports, Premier League and UEFA Champions League soccer, NASCAR auto racing, Canadian Football League, the XFL, mixed martial arts and Tennis. In August 2018, DraftKings launched DraftKings Sportsbook in New Jersey becoming the first legal mobile sports betting operator in the state. Since launching in New Jersey, DraftKings has opened mobile sports betting operations in Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and opened in New Hampshire December 30, 2019 after reaching contract with the New Hampshire Lottery. Retail sports betting is available in Iowa, Mississippi and New York. DraftKings Sportsbook mobile and retail sports betting products allow bettors in each state engage in betting for most major U.S. and international sports. As of April 2016, the majority of U.S. states consider fantasy sports a game of skill and not gambling. In November 2016, FanDuel and DraftKings, the two largest companies in the daily fantasy sports industry, reached an agreement to merge. However the merger was terminated in July 2017 due to it being blocked by the Federal Trade Commission as the combined company would have controlled a 90 percent of the market for daily fantasy sports. As of July 2017, DraftKings had eight million users.
Learn more about DraftKings
Size
3,400 employees
Market Cap
$4.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$577.9 million
Revenue
$292.3 million
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