Regional Compliance Manager: East Coast

About Nabis

Nabis is the #1 licensed cannabis wholesale platform in the world, supplying $1B+ worth of cannabis products annually from hundreds of brands to retailers across California, New York, and Nevada. Our mission is to empower the world to discover cannabis by providing choice, access, and innovation. Through modern, scalable infrastructure, our mission is to empower the world to discover cannabis by providing choice, access, and innovation.

We’re at the forefront of this movement, building an innovative, technology-first platform to scale the entire cannabis industry. Backed by Y Combinator and investors, including DoorDash Co-Founder Stanley Tang, NFL Hall of Famer Joe Montana, Gmail creator Paul Buchheit, and Twitch co-founder Justin Kan, Nabis is rapidly expanding across the U.S. with the goal of becoming the largest and most influential cannabis distribution network globally.

About the Role

The Regional Compliance Manager owns operational compliance for our East Coast operations. New York today, New Jersey next. Reports to the General Counsel.

You will set the tone for execution, author the SOPs, and serve as the senior compliance voice for everything that happens in or around our warehouses, drivers, brand partners, and customer experience on the East Coast.

Compliance at Nabis is a pillar of the business, not a necessary evil. We operate under a “compliance by design” model: the function exists to make our operation defensible from day one, not to police it after the fact. On-site compliance reports fully under the General Counsel, independent of the operations it oversees. That’s the standard structure in any mature regulated industry. This role builds that model for the East Coast.

This is hands-on execution work. It is not a corporate compliance, policy, or government relations seat. Those scopes sit separately under the GC with our Head of Government Relations, who handles new regulations, policy interpretation, and senior regulator relationships. The two roles partner closely: GR writes the policy memos; the Regional translates them into operational SOPs and makes sure they get executed.

Responsibilities

SOP Authorship and Operational Execution

• Author and maintain all East Coast SOPs covering METRC operations, receiving, intake, transfers, storage, destruction, returns, inspections, incident response, and driver conduct
• Translate the Head of GR’s policy memos into specific SOP updates and training as new regulations and emergency rules take effect
• Maintain a regional compliance calendar (renewals, audits, training, inspection windows) with 30+ days of forward visibility
• Sign off on partner onboarding decisions where compliance is the gating factor

METRC and Seed-to-Sale Execution

• Own day-to-day METRC operations across all active East Coast facilities. New York operates on METRC; you are the senior METRC voice on the East Coast
• Lead METRC integration work for the region: coordinating with Engineering on system integrations, new METRC feature rollouts, and automation that improves analyst workflow
• Oversee package reconciliation, manifest creation and resolution, error remediation, and waste and destruction entries across the region
• Ensure all product labeling, packaging, and COA standards are met prior to order fulfillment in each East Coast market

State Regulatory Execution

• Apply OCM (NY) and other applicable state distributor regulations