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As we grow, the volume and complexity of regulatory questions is growing faster than our team, and too much of what we know sits with too few people.\nThis is a new role in our Regulatory Compliance team, part of Zinc's wider Risk function. You will own the interpretation of the regulation behind our checks, so that our product, customers and commercial teams can rely on clear, defensible answers. You'll work closely with Legal, Product, InfoSec and our commercial teams, and extend the team's reach through fractional specialists and external counsel.\nWhilst a legal background will certainly help, you don't need to be a qualified lawyer for this position. We're open to regulatory and compliance professionals from diverse backgrounds. What matters is that you can get to grips with a regulatory framework, form a clear view and explain it to people who aren't specialists.\nYou'll start hands-on as an individual contributor, with room to grow as we expand our regulated-sector and international coverage.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn the regulation behind our checks: Right to Work, FCA, CQC, Ofsted, BS7858, BPSS and public sector vetting. You’ll own the interpretation of these and work closely with our Product team as to how they could be applied to our product. You'll work alongside our DBS Compliance Lead and the wider Risk department on this piece.\nAdvise on sector vetting: fitness and propriety, SM&CR, KCSIE, EYFS and other regulator requirements for the sectors our customers operate in.\nLead on international frameworks: global criminal record and right to work checks, GDPR in a screening context, and support on US FCRA and state law.\nBe the go-to for complex questions from sales, account management and customer success. Join customer and prospect calls where depth is needed and provide the regulatory input to tenders and RFPs.\nReview the product with a regulatory lens: new features, checks and user flows. Help turn new legislation and guidance into clear product requirements.\nHorizon scan and enable: track developments across the UK, EU, US and APAC and turn them into practical guidance, so our commercial teams become more self-sufficient over time.\nManage our specialists: scope, brief and quality-check fractional regulatory experts and external counsel with the Head of Regulatory Compliance.\nSkills, Knowledge and Expertise\nA regulatory or compliance background. You've interpreted regulation for a living, whether in legal practice, in-house, at a regulator or in a compliance function. Experience across more than one sector is a strong plus.\nClear answers, not caveats. You give a defensible view in plain English, and you know when to escalate and when to decide.\nQuick to get up to speed. You can pick up a regulatory framework in a sector you haven't worked in and become useful fast. Comfortable reading legislation, statutory guidance and regulator publications.\nCommercially minded. You're comfortable on customer and prospect calls and understand that compliance has to work in practice.\nPragmatic about risk. You know not all regulations carry the same weight, and focus on being properly compliant with what matters.\nCollaborative. You work well with Product, Legal and commercial teams, and simplify without over-simplifying.\n Bonus points for experience in background screening, HR tech or recruitment, knowledge of DBS, right to work, FCA regulation or UK GDPR in an employment context, or experience managing external advisers.\nWhat we offer\n24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off \n£1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)\nEarly finish Fridays (16:00)\nYearly company retreat abroad \n30 days to Work from anywhere \nEnhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (13 weeks full pay, 17 weeks half pay, then SMP for maternity, 1 month full pay for paternity/adoption) \nStatutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)\nZinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme\nUnlimited access to Spill Therapy\nCompany socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches\nNursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest) \nOption to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme \nCelebrated Zinc anniversaries","description_format":"text","description_chars":4370,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Human Resources"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-22T16:53:53Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Skilled Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-31T06:23:40+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":75,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.795,"p_room":0.945,"age_days":9,"expected_fill_days":25,"reasons":["conf:0","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":107026,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/zinc-regulatory-counsel","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/zinc-regulatory-counsel.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T07:32:22Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":11180,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":172552},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=172552"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fzinc-regulatory-counsel"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fzinc-regulatory-counsel"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fzinc-regulatory-counsel"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/zinc-regulatory-counsel\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fzinc-regulatory-counsel"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3098522}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"zincwork.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3098522},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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