The Role
Serve as the primary regulatory contact for Sales, Account Management, and Customer Success. Join client/prospect calls, build and maintain regulatory guidance and training, monitor regulatory developments, support client-facing collateral and RFPs, and partner with legal and compliance leaders to enable commercial teams to handle regulatory questions confidently.
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🚀 Why we're hiring
Key Responsibilities 🗝️
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀
Skills & knowledge
You are 🌟
What we offer 🍉
About
Who we are ⚡Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.📚Read more about our story here: https://zincwork.com/missionWe're a culture first company, by this we don't just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events 🍔🍻🎯 (which we do have 🤩),Zinc's culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc's culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company's future.🪴We recently redefined our company values:🧩The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.
Right now, one person carries the entire regulatory workload for Zinc's commercial teams. That's a lot of pressure on one human, and a single point of failure we'd rather not have. This role exists to spread the load: a dedicated compliance enablement function that helps the commercial teams have confident, accurate conversations with clients and prospects, without always needing to phone a friend.
🎯 The roleYou'll be the go-to person for regulatory questions from Sales, Account Management and Customer Success. You'll hop on client and prospect calls when requested, build the guardrails and guidance that make commercial teams increasingly self-sufficient, and be the first port of call for tricky questions, not the last.
👥 TeamYou'll join Zinc's Regulatory Compliance team, part of the wider Legal & Compliance function and growing fast. The team already includes a DBS Compliance Lead, with two more hires in flight alongside this one (Frameworks Manager and Regulatory Compliance Specialist). Plan is to recruit multiple specialists across background screening, regulatory affairs and commercial enablement over the next 12 months.
Key Responsibilities 🗝️
- Be the first point of contact for regulatory queries from Sales, AM and Customer Support
- Join client and prospect calls where regulatory depth is needed
- Build and maintain a regulatory guidance library across Zinc's core regulated sectors (FCA/SMCR/CRD6, SRA, CQC, Ofsted, BPSS, BS7858), criminal record checks and Right to Work
- Design, deliver and maintain internal regulatory training and documentation - make the complex stuff click
- Keep an eye on regulatory developments and translate them into plain-English guidance for non-compliance colleagues
- Support client-facing regulatory content and collateral
- Support RFP and tender responses that need regulatory firepower
- Partner with the Head of Regulatory Compliance, Legal Counsel and DBS Compliance Lead to keep Zinc ahead of the curve
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀
Experience
- 3-4+ years in a compliance role. This could be as a compliance specialist/senior analyst at a background screening firm, in-house compliance at a regulatory body (e.g. FCA/PRA/SRA/CQC/Ofsted), or in-house compliance at a regulated employer in one of Zinc's key sectors (financial services, healthcare, education, EYFS, legal, public sector, security)
- You'll need more than one regulatory framework under your belt (think SRA + FCA, or Ofsted + CQC) - single-regulator experience alone won't give you the range this role needs
- Bonus points: experience supporting commercial or client-facing teams in a compliance capacity
Skills & knowledge
- Solid working knowledge of at least two of Zinc's core regulatory frameworks (SMCR, DBS, SRA, CQC, KCSIE, EYFS, Right to Work) - three or more is even better
- Sharp regulatory interpretation and research skills
- A knack for turning regulatory complexity into clear, plain-English guidance
- Strong written communication
- Broad UK regulatory knowledge across financial services, healthcare, social care, legal or education, and how it translates into real employer obligations
- Bonus: multi-sector familiarity, highly AI-literate, and an interest in Zinc's product and the background screening market
You are 🌟
- Commercially switched-on - you translate "regulatory" into "here's what to do"
- Comfortable and confident on client calls with senior HR/TA leaders, not just in the guidance docs
- Proactive, with sharp judgment on when to escalate vs. when to just answer
- A straight-talker - you give clear answers rather than hedging everything, and simplify without dumbing down
- Happy being the person the commercial team leans on
What we offer 🍉
Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️
- 30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
- Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳
About
Who we are ⚡Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.📚Read more about our story here: https://zincwork.com/missionWe're a culture first company, by this we don't just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events 🍔🍻🎯 (which we do have 🤩),Zinc's culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc's culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company's future.🪴We recently redefined our company values:🧩The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.
Skills Required
- 3-4+ years in a compliance role
- Experience across more than one regulatory framework (e.g., SRA + FCA, Ofsted + CQC)
- Working knowledge of at least two core regulatory frameworks (SMCR, DBS, SRA, CQC, KCSIE, EYFS, Right to Work)
- Sharp regulatory interpretation and research skills
- Ability to convert regulatory complexity into clear, plain-English guidance
- Strong written communication
- Broad UK regulatory knowledge across financial services, healthcare, social care, legal or education
- Experience supporting commercial or client-facing teams in a compliance capacity
- Multi-sector familiarity
- AI-literacy
- Interest in Zinc's product and the background screening market
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The Company
What We Do
Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards, offering automated pre-screening employment software for HR and recruiting teams to verify candidates' backgrounds and hire at scale.
