Senior Manager Global Compliance

AI That Moves the World. Careers That Move You Forward.
At Cerence AI, you’ll help transform advanced AI into trusted, real-world solutions that make complex technology – think vehicles, robots, smart manufacturing, and emerging intelligent devices – more natural, reliable, and useful. Building on decades of innovation and global deployment in automotive, we are extending our expertise into new products, markets, and intelligent systems.

As part of our global team, you’ll work alongside leading innovators, researchers, engineers, and business leaders to solve meaningful challenges and turn breakthrough ideas into technology people use every day. You’ll have the opportunity to make a visible impact, help shape Cerence AI’s next chapter, and move your own career forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and operate a single, integrated compliance management system spanning quality, HSE, security, privacy, legal/regulatory, and internal controls.

• Define and maintain enterprise compliance policies, standards, controls, and evidence frameworks that are audit-ready and scalable.

• Establish clear governance and accountability, including a cross-functional compliance RACI across Legal, Security, Quality, HSE, Product, Engineering, and Finance.

• Drive awareness and prioritization of regional regulatory obligations (EU, US, APAC, China, etc.)

• Maintain customer facing Trust Center.

• Chair compliance workgroup, establish workflow and pipeline for strategic compliance and certification investments.

• Plan, coordinate, and lead internal/external audits, including certification, customer, and regulator audits; drive pragmatic corrective actions and strategic solutions.

• Ensure quality, safety, and process compliance supports OEM contractual and product approval requirements.

• Partner with Security, Product, and Engineering to ensure compliance with key security and automotive cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001/27017, TISAX, ISO 21434, ASPICE) and secure development expectations.

• Support operationalizing global privacy compliance (e.g., GDPR/UK GDPR), including DPIAs, privacy risk assessments, and defensible records of processing and data flows.

• Monitor regulatory change and translate legal requirements into actionable controls, working closely with legal to support compliance representations and customer due diligence.

• Serve as the primary compliance interface to the CFO’s Internal Audit team and support SOX-adjacent/internal-control testing where applicable.

• Maintain a consolidated view of enterprise compliance risk, drive risk-based prioritization, and provide regular reporting to executive leadership and the Audit Committee.

• Convert local laws and regulations to actionable requirements (e.g., China GB44495, Germany, EU CRA).

Qualifications & Experience

Required

• 8+ years (Senior Manager) in compliance, risk, quality, security, or regulatory roles within software, automotive, cloud, or regulated technology industries.

• Demonstrated experience owning multiple compliance domains simultaneously.

• Strong understanding of ISO-based management systems and audit operations.

• Experience interfacing with internal audit, external auditors, and regulators.

• Ability to translate legal and regulatory requirements into operational controls.

• Proven stakeholder management across Legal, Engineering, Product, Security, Finance, and Operations.

• Systems thinker who understands how compliance, engineering, security, and finance interlock.

• Pragmatic and risk‑based, not checkbox‑driven.

• Comfortable operating with executive leadership and boards.

• Credible with engineers, auditors, and lawyers alike.

• Calm, structured, and decisive in audit or regulatory pressure situations.

• Self-starter who works well both independently and on collaborative teams.

Preferred

• Exposure to connected-vehicle, cybersecurity, or AI regulatory regimes.

• Experience building or maturing integrated compliance programs at scale.

• International experience working across regions and regulatory frameworks.

What we offer

We offer a generous compensation and benefits package (in addition to the base salary), including:

• Salary range $124,425.00 CDN - $199,080.00 CDN It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the range. The actual salary will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors.

• Annual bonus opportunity

• Insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)

• Paid time off

• Paid holidays

• Company contribution to the CDN RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan)

• Equity awards for certain positions and levels

• Remote and/or hybrid work available depending on the position

All compensation and benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of the underlying plans or programs, as applicable, and may be amended, terminated, or replaced from time to time.

Cerence AI (NASDAQ: CRNC) helps people and intelligent systems work together naturally and reliably. Proven at global scale in automotive, Cerence provides the trusted interaction and action layer connecting people, machines, and intelligent systems. Its AI platform enables natural interaction and dependable action across complex real-world environments where reliability, safety, security, and performance are critical. Working with customers and partners worldwide, Cerence transforms advanced AI into trusted solutions that bridge the gap between AI potential and real-world performance.

For more information, visit www.cerence.ai.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Cerence is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, genetic information and other protected classifications. Cerence Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

All prospective and current Employees need to remain vigilant when it comes to executing security policies in the workplace. This includes:

- Following workplace security protocols and training programs to familiarize with the ways to maintain a safe workplace.
- Following security procedures to report any suspicious activity.
- Having respect for corporate security procedures to allow those procedures to be effective.
- Adhering to company's compliance and regulations.
- Encouraging to follow a zero tolerance for workplace violence.

- Basic knowledge of information security and data privacy requirements (e.g., how to protect data & how to be handling this data).

- Demonstrative knowledge of information security through internal training programs.