About the role

Amber is looking to hire a Regulatory Compliance Manager to lead our retail compliance function and external engagement as we scale. This is a step up from an officer‑level role; you will own the compliance framework, manage regulatory relationships, and lead a small team as the business grows.

As senior operational lead on regulatory compliance you will sit within Amber’s Legal team, working closely to ensure Amber identifies and responds to its obligations as a licensed retailer in a timely, accurate, and well‑coordinated way. You will also take a forward‑looking view; anticipating regulatory change, shaping Amber's policy positions, and building the systems and capability that let the business grow confidently.

This role is ideal for a regulatory professional who has mastered compliance execution and is ready to move into a leadership role with genuine influence over business strategy and regulatory outcomes.

Responsibilities

Regulatory Leadership & Compliance Ownership

- Own Amber's compliance framework across all NEM retailer obligations: designing, maintaining, and continuously improving the systems, registers, and processes that keep us on top of our obligations
- Act as Amber's point of contact for regulators including the AER, AEMO, AEMC, and state‑based bodies: building trusted relationships and representing Amber's interests with credibility
- Work with the Legal team to translate regulatory obligations under the NERR, NER, and relevant state legislation into accessible, actionable guidance for operations, product and finance teams
- Oversee all regulatory reporting submissions, formal information requests, and licence condition obligations: ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and cross‑functional validation

Policy & Regulatory Reform

- Coordinate Amber's engagement in regulatory consultations, rule change processes, and reform workstreams: project managing submissions, tracking deadlines, and ensuring cross‑functional input is gathered and distilled effectively
- Maintain a forward‑looking view of regulatory change: horizon‑scanning for reforms across retail, network, and wholesale markets and assessing their business impact before they land
- Represent Amber externally in stakeholder forums: advocating for fit‑for‑purpose regulatory frameworks that work for innovative retailers
- Maintain Amber's regulatory innovation pathways, including engagement with bodies on bespoke compliance approaches suited to our wholesale pass‑through model

Cross‑Functional Leadership & Projects

- Drive cross‑functional delivery of complex regulatory projects




- Partner with teams across the business to embed regulatory requirements into roadmaps and processes: acting as a strategic enabler rather than just a compliance review department
- Build and uplift regulatory capability across the operations business: training teams, creating accessible guidance materials, and instilling a culture of proactive compliance

Team & Capability Building

- Manage and develop compliance staff
- Support the business to build scalable internal compliance systems and tooling that can grow with the business, reducing manual effort while increasing rigour and auditability

What We're Looking For

Essential

- 5+ years of experience in energy regulatory compliance, policy, or legal roles
- Practical knowledge of the NEM regulatory framework applicable to retail energy
- Proven track record managing regulatory relationships at a senior level with regulators, industry bodies, or government
- Demonstrated ability to lead or coordinate regulatory submissions, consultation responses, and reform engagement with strategic intent
- Demonstrated ability to manage a small team and coordinate complex, multi‑stakeholder compliance or regulatory projects to a deadline
- Leadership and influencing skills: able to work across senior stakeholders internally and externally, and bring cross‑functional teams along
- Excellent written and verbal communication: capable of drafting executive‑ready briefings, submissions to regulators, and accessible guidance for non‑specialist audiences

Highly Regarded

- Experience at or engaging with the AER, ESC, AEMO, or AEMC, either from the regulator side or as a sophisticated industry participant
- Familiarity with emerging regulatory frameworks and passionate about the transition to a renewable energy grid dominated by consumer energy resources
- Legal qualification or postgraduate training in energy law, regulation, or policy (advantageous but not required)

The Traits We Value

- Strategic thinker: see regulatory complexity as an opportunity to create competitive advantage, not just a compliance burden
- Owner mentality: take end‑to‑end accountability for your domain and don't wait to be told what to do next
- Collaborative leader: build trust across functions, bring people with you, and develop the capability of those around you
- Clear communicator:



pitch it right every time, whether briefing the leaders, engaging a regulator, or explaining an obligation to an engineer
- Resilient and adaptable: thrive in a changing environment and help others navigate it too

How We Work

- Put the customer at the centre of everything we do: whatever we are working on, it ultimately serves our customers, whether that's close to 100k now or 1 million in the future
- Hypothesis‑driven: develop and test ideas quickly, learn from what works, and cut what doesn't
- Prioritise leverage: build scalable processes and technology to solve problems, not just patch them
- Have fun and support colleagues or customers when possible

Advantages

- Committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world
- Part of a rapidly growing team of over 200 with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations
- Experience a growing technology start‑up that will shape the future of household and grid energy use
- Enjoy a lively, collaborative workspace at our buzzing Melbourne CBD headquarters in the heart of the city
- Flexible working hours and provision for regular work from home arrangements
- Equitable gender‑neutral parental leave policies
- External Employee Assistance Plan for mental health support
- Competitive salary and share options in Amber
- Annual Learning & Development budget to support personal growth
- Additional PTO between Christmas and New Year

Salary: $135,000 – $155,000 per annum, base only. All full‑time roles at Amber include employee stock options over and above the base salary and superannuation.

This is a full‑time role to be based ideally from Melbourne, but we are open to considering the right candidate anywhere within Australia. We are also open to working 4 days a week, if that is what you are looking for.

Amber is a remote‑first team; we have an office in the Melbourne CBD, where we work flexibly between the office and home. The vast majority of our team are located in Melbourne. For those based in Sydney, they catch up in a co‑working space in the city every now and then, and the rest of the locations in Australia work from home. While we don't expect people to attend the office, we do expect that people mostly work in the Melbourne time zone to maximise collaboration.

We are open to all backgrounds and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

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📌 Regulatory Compliance Manager (Melbourne)
🏢 Amber Electric
📍 Melbourne