Risk and Compliance Specialist - Global Trade

A World-Changing Company

Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

The Role

Palantir’s dynamic Legal Team works to proactively address legal and regulatory issues as Palantir continues to drive and deliver positive impact in the world. As a Risk and Compliance Specialist - Global Trade, you will assist with both growing and scaling a first-class, global trade compliance program and conducting high-volume compliance screenings for due diligence purposes. Our team collaborates across the global Palantir community to understand and categorize the technical solutions we build and deploy around the world. Whether operating solo or collaboratively, we endeavor to achieve great results on challenging projects.

As a Risk and Compliance Specialist - Global Trade, you’ll provide critical support and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams when managing our product classifications, including classifications of new products. You’ll play a key role in implementing and maintaining our trade compliance policies and trainings, and managing our compliance with applicable export license requirements. You’ll also play a substantial role in conducting customer due diligence, supplier vetting and partner review to identify potential risks of doing business with third parties.

As a member of Palantir’s Legal team, you’ll be expected to deliver upon and balance competing priorities in a fast-paced environment with consistency. You’ll also leverage your excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to listen, learn, and influence a global network of management-level personnel and stakeholders.

This position is ideal for someone with a desire to work independently to meet critical business needs in a fast-paced, high-volume environment as well as collaboratively to participate in strategic decisions that cut across our business and stakeholders. Above all, this position is perfect for someone eager to contribute to a dynamic and rapidly growing company that is solving some of the world’s hardest problems.

• Manage product classifications, coordinating with relevant product POCs to ensure existing classifications remain up to date and new products have classifications before they are finalized.
• Collaborate closely with cross functional groups early on in new products or ventures to ensure they are structured with consideration to trade regulations and future limitations on international sales or need for export licenses.
• Ensure technical data from third parties is marked and treated with the appropriate handling classifications.
• Assess need for TAA or other U.S. government export license on transactions involving international government customers and manage compliance with export license requirements.
• Draft, maintain, and update internal trade compliance (ITAR/EAR/OFAC) policies, procedures, and training materials.
• Assist with submission of U.S. government trade controls and customs registrations and reports.
• Support drafting or negotiation of trade compliance contract language.
• Conduct high-volume compliance screening, as well as deep-dive due diligence research, on a wide range of third parties including customers, individuals and suppliers.
• Draft succinct, high-quality risk assessments, coordinate with other stakeholders and present to high-level internal decision-makers on a regular basis.
• Support a variety of legal compliance risk projects in order to meet emerging business needs.

• Previous experience in a trade compliance role for a U.S. defense contractor and/or SaaS company contracting with the U.S. government is strongly preferred.
• Strong program/project management skills, including organizational skills and ability to handle projects with competing deadlines.
• Prior experience engaging with engineering product teams to classify defense and dual-use products (preferably SaaS or other cloud products ), software, and technologies according to import and export control requirements.
• Prior experience conducting KYC or third-party due diligence, proven research and analytical skills, detail-oriented and enjoys working under a high degree of independence in a fast-paced setting.
• Understanding of overlap and distinctions between U.S. trade controls and U.S. Department of Defense CUI controls, and ability to assist with terms of use compliance for U.S. government-furnished CUI.
• Demonstrated track record of innovative process development and creation of simple solutions to meet corporate compliance program goals.
• Proficiency in DECCS, SNAP-R, ACE, and third-party compliance screening software.

• 3+ years of experience working on a risk or compliance team.
• This position requires eligibility to obtain authorization under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Non-US Persons, as defined in the ITAR and EAR, may not be eligible to obtain authorization.
• Eligibility to access all manner of International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), Export Administration Regulation (EAR), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) materials.
• Expert knowledge and experience drafting and applying for export and import authorizations.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $100,000 - $150,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.

Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.

Benefits

•  Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance

•  Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance

•  Commuter benefits

•  Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based

•  2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)

•  10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year

•  Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events

•  Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents

•  Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation

•  Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child

•  Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan

Life at Palantir

We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.

In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.

If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.