Compliance Program Manager Jobs in California
Compliance Program Manager jobs in California are among the most active in the country, with demand concentrated in financial services, healthcare, technology, and defense contracting at levels from entry-level compliance analyst through senior program director. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego account for the largest share of openings, where major employers such as Kaiser Permanente, Wells Fargo, and Northrop Grumman maintain significant compliance operations. The most sought-after specialties in California are healthcare regulatory compliance, financial crimes and anti-money-laundering programs, and privacy and data governance under the California Consumer Privacy Act. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Automation Program Manager, Legal and Compliance Operations Responsibilities:
- Hill-climb reliability (prompt, iterate and improve), correctness, precision and recall on assigned automations across Legal and Compliance Workflows
- Iterate on LLM components, including prompts, task decomposition, routing, and abstention and fallback behavior
- Diagnose and improve rules-based components, including coverage, ordering and precedence, conflicts between rules, rules firing on the wrong population, and rules that stop matching after a policy or schema change
- Tune signal-based components, including thresholds, signal freshness and availability, and the precision cost of upstream signal drift
- Investigate regressions to isolate whether the cause is model, rule, signal, upstream data, policy change, or a shift in the incoming population, and distinguish real degradation from volume mix shift
- Drive regressions to a measured recovery that holds across a following measurement period, and document what degraded, why it was not caught earlier, and what detection would have caught it
- Build and maintain offline eval and gold standard data sets, coordinating expert-review sampling with the reviewers who hold the ground truth
- Build regression detection that surfaces degradation before the next reporting cycle, and close measurement coverage gaps so automations that are live are also measured
- Build scripts, notebooks and internal tooling so program managers and operations leads can run measurement independently
- Document what was tried, what moved the metric, and what did not, so subsequent workflows start further along
Minimum Qualifications:
- 2+ years of relevant experience in data annotation, labeling, quality assurance, or content review operations, including time spent close to automated decision output
- Experience with guideline accuracy and inter-rater agreement, including diagnosing why qualified reviewers disagree
- Working knowledge of Python and SQL, with experience pulling a dataset, computing precision and recall, and segmenting results to locate where loss is concentrated
- Experience reading and reasoning about conditional logic to trace how a decision was reached
- Experience working with large operational datasets in a notebook environment
- Investigative approach to metric movement, identifying cause rather than the explanation that fits
- Experience communicating results clearly, including reporting a metric that has not moved or a regression that is not yet explained
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in adversarial or fraud-adjacent domains where the reviewed population actively shifts
- Experience with rules engines, decision tables, routing logic or classifier thresholds
- Experience coordinating with vendor or cross-functional reviewer pools
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Experience or expertise in legal and compliance operations, or trust and safety
- Experience iterating on prompts with measured before-and-after results
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
About Meta:
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@meta.com.
$97,000/year to $139,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.
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What California Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in compliance program manager jobs across California.
- Bachelor's degree in law, business, healthcare administration, or a related field
- Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP) or equivalent professional certification preferred
- Five or more years of compliance, regulatory affairs, or risk management experience
- Demonstrated knowledge of California-specific regulations including CCPA and HIPAA requirements
- Experience designing, implementing, and auditing enterprise-wide compliance programs
- Strong written communication skills for policy development and regulatory reporting
Compliance Program Manager Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a compliance program manager in California?
The most direct path is a bachelor's degree in business, law, healthcare administration, or a related field followed by several years in a compliance analyst or regulatory affairs role. California does not issue a state-specific compliance license, but hiring managers strongly favor the Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional credential issued by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. Candidates targeting healthcare employers should also pursue the Certified in Healthcare Compliance designation, which carries real weight with California hospital systems and medical groups.
How much do compliance program managers make in California?
Compliance program managers in California earn a median of about $96,980 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $57,530 for the lowest 10% to over $158,280 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire compliance program managers in California?
Employers hiring compliance program managers in California right now include Meta, OpenAI, and SCAN Health Plan, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. California's dense concentration of regulated industries, including large health systems, major banks, defense contractors, and technology firms subject to CCPA, makes it one of the most consistent states for compliance program manager hiring year-round.
Which California cities have the most compliance program manager jobs?
San Francisco, San Diego, and Long Beach account for the most compliance program manager openings in California. Los Angeles and San Francisco drive volume through their large financial services, entertainment, and technology sectors, while San Diego's strength in defense contracting, biotech, and military healthcare generates consistent compliance demand that keeps it competitive with the larger metros.
Are there remote compliance program manager jobs in California?
Yes, and more than most fields, because compliance program management is fundamentally a desk, policy, and documentation role that translates well to remote work. About 65% of compliance program manager openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how widely employers have adopted flexible arrangements for this function. Roles focused on policy writing, training program development, and regulatory reporting are the most consistently offered as fully remote.
How can I get hired as a compliance program manager in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry point is moving into a compliance analyst or regulatory coordinator role from an adjacent position such as paralegal, internal auditor, quality assurance specialist, or healthcare billing coordinator. Large California employers including Kaiser Permanente, UC Health systems, and major Bay Area financial institutions run rotational compliance and risk associate programs that accept candidates without dedicated compliance experience. Earning the CCEP candidate designation while still building hours demonstrates commitment and gives California hiring managers a concrete credential to anchor an otherwise thin compliance resume.
Where can I find and apply to compliance program manager jobs in California?
You can find and apply to compliance program manager jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current California openings updated regularly. Find the roles that fit your experience and apply directly to the ones that match.
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