Director, Ethics and Compliance

2401 E 86th St, Bloomington, MN 55425, USA

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Position Summary:

The Director, Ethics & Compliance is the senior leader responsible for owning and driving Sky Water’s enterprise-wide Ethics & Compliance Program. This role sets the strategic vision for a mature, prevention‑focused program and ensures alignment with Sky Water’s values, business strategy, and regulatory expectations. The Director develops, implements, and continuously enhances Sky Water’s ethics and compliance framework, ensuring it is well‑designed, effectively implemented, and works in practice in accordance with the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and the DOJ’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (ECCP).

This role leads cross‑functional governance, influences decision‑making at the executive level, and embeds integrity, accountability, and ethical conduct across operations, culture, and leadership behavior. The Director oversees the ethics and compliance program strategy, policy governance, investigations, monitoring, training, reporting, risk assessments, and remediation activities. The Director manages the Ethics & Compliance Manager (new role) and serves as a key advisor to the General Counsel & Chief Risk and Compliance Officer and senior leadership.

Responsibilities:

Program Leadership & Strategy

• Own and lead the enterprise Ethics & Compliance Program, setting strategic direction, and long‑term roadmap.
• Establish program goals, maturity objectives, and performance indicators; regularly assess effectiveness and ensure continuous improvement.
• Ensure program integration with Sky Water’s business strategy, risk management framework, and corporate governance structure.

Governance & Executive Advisory

• Serve as the principal advisor to the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer and senior leadership on ethics and compliance risks.
• Provide authoritative, decision‑ready program updates, including trends, risk insights, compliance metrics, and program performance.
• Direct and oversee enterprise compliance risk assessments and use results to prioritize initiatives and inform resource allocation.
• Lead the Company’s monitoring and testing strategy to identify emerging concerns and enhance control effectiveness.
• Oversee high‑risk and sensitive investigations, ensuring rigor in scoping, documentation, root‑cause analysis, and remediation.
• Ensure timely and effective corrective action plans and elevate systemic risks to leadership and the Board when appropriate.

Policy & Process Ownership

• Own the lifecycle of the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and all enterprise‑level compliance policies and standards.
• Ensure…