Director of Compliance

Regulatory strategy, enforcement readiness, and agency interface

• Serve as the company's primary strategic interface with DPS and, upon federal registration, the DEA — managing these relationships with professionalism, credibility, and sound legal judgment.

• Lead the company's response to inspections, audits, investigations, information requests, and any administrative or enforcement action — coordinating with outside regulatory counsel on contested or high-stakes matters and escalating appropriately.

• Provide authoritative in-house interpretation of the Texas Compassionate Use Program (CUP), DPS Administrative Rules, and applicable state and federal law; translate legal requirements into defensible, practical operating procedures across the business.

• Monitor legislative and regulatory developments, assess their impact, and position the company ahead of change.

Diversion prevention and program integrity — the paramount risk

• Lead and manage a best-in-class diversion-prevention and inventory-integrity program (seed-to-sale / track-and-trace, reconciliation, and loss investigation) engineered to withstand scrutiny.

• Lead internal audits to identify and close any potential gaps; maintain continuous inspection readiness across all licensed cultivation, manufacturing, laboratory, fulfillment, transportation, and retail locations.

• Develop, implement, and monitor corrective and preventive action (CAPA) plans arising from audits, inspections, or investigations, and track outcomes to closure.

• Maintain all required compliance documentation, records, licenses, registrations, permits, and inspection files, and coordinate all regulatory reporting, submissions, renewals, and correspondence.

Federal / DEA controlled-substance compliance (upon registration)

• Own the company's DEA registration compliance: registration-file maintenance, initial inventory upon grant of registration, biennial inventories, and federal recordkeeping under 21 CFR Parts 1301 and 1304.

• Implement DEA-conformant employee screening (21 CFR 1301.90) and required security controls.

• Serve as the company's point of contact for DEA inspections alongside DPS.

Oversight of physical security (delegated)

• Set the standards and policy for the company's physical-security program and oversee the Security Manager, who administers access control, credentialing, visitor management, CCTV surveillance, alarm and intrusion-detection systems, key/badge control, and incident response.

• Ensure the security program satisfies all regulatory requirements and that surveillance, access, and product-handling controls will hold up under regulator review — setting direction and verifying results rather than personally operating systems.

Leadership and culture

• Direct investigations into any inventory discrepancies, unauthorized access, and compliance concerns — ensuring reportable incidents reach regulators within required timelines.

• Build and lead the compliance function; partner with Operations, Manufacturing, Cultivation, Retail, Quality, Facilities, IT, HR, and Finance to embed compliance into daily operations and support new openings, expansions, and operational changes.

• Develop and deliver training on regulatory compliance, diversion prevention, incident reporting, and confidentiality; instill a company-wide culture in which compliance is understood as the company's protection, not a constraint.

• Define KPIs for the compliance and security programs and report regularly to executive leadership on regulatory risk and posture.