Compliance Associate

Recognized as one of Canada's top startups two years in a row — climbing from #4 in 2024 to #2 in 2025 — Hiive is a fintech/marketplace startup connecting buyers and sellers of stock in venture-backed pre-IPO companies. Thanks to our industry-leading technology and best-in-class sales and trading team, we are home to the fastest-growing marketplace for the stock of "unicorns" on the planet. As a profitable and rapidly growing business backed by US venture capital investors, we are seeking to scale our high-performing team.

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As a Compliance Associate at Hiive, you will be an integral part of our compliance team, reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer. You will play a critical role in scaling and maintaining our compliance and regulatory infrastructure in the United States and Canada, fostering a culture of compliance throughout the company.

In this role, your responsibilities would include:

• Implementing Hiive's compliance processes and functions for customer engagement, including KYC and AML, account opening, and onboarding.

• Managing registered representative oversight, including registrations, exams, electronic correspondence surveillance, and conflict of interest tracking.

• Testing and modifying policies and procedures designed to achieve compliance with applicable securities laws and regulations.

• Maintaining Hiive's internal compliance resources and prepare guidance on compliance-related topics.

• Drafting and publishing FAQs and compliance bulletins to update Hiive on regulatory changes and developments.

• Preparing Hiive's regulatory reporting and filings.

• Monitoring and implementing developments in the compliance and regulatory landscape, including private securities and information security/privacy issues.

• Developing and delivering compliance training.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of relevant compliance, risk, or audit experience at a broker-dealer, exempt markets dealer, and/or investment adviser.

• Strong familiarity with the securities markets.

• A keen interest in creative problem solving, including researching novel and ambiguous regulatory requirements.

• A desire to work on an agile team providing pragmatic advice and guidance to product, business, and operations teams that are moving very quickly.

• A track record of sound judgment and composure in high-pressure situations.

Preferred Skills:

• FINRA Series 7 and 24.

• CCO Qualifying Exam administered by the Canadian Securities Institute.

• CAMS or CFCS certification.

• Strong familiarity with FINRA rules and US securities laws.

• Exposure to work on private investments and/or structuring alternative products.

Compensation, Benefits, & Perks:

• Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience and contribution.

• Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing early-stage startup through our employee stock option plan.

• Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, a health and personal spending account.

• A dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym, and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.

• Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.

• An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly "Friday bar," team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two "onsite" all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Womens' Network events.

• Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.

• Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.

• Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates.

Hiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.