Senior Compliance Manager

King City Gardens is seeking a Senior Compliance Manager to lead regulatory compliance across its Ohio operations.

Level I cultivation facility, processing relationships, and dispensary operations. This role is responsible for

protecting the company’s licenses, operational continuity, product integrity, and regulatory standing by

ensuring that cultivation, inventory, product movement, testing, documentation, employee training, and

Partner coordination is performed in accordance with applicable Ohio cannabis laws, rules, and licenses

requirements, and internal policies.

The Senior Compliance Manager will serve as the company’s primary internal authority for cannabis

compliance, audit readiness, seed-to-sale tracking, SOP governance, corrective action, incident response,

regulatory interpretation, and regulator-facing documentation. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role that

requires both technical compliance knowledge and practical operational judgment.

About King City Gardens

King City Gardens operates a Level I cannabis cultivation facility in Ohio and supports a broader regulated

cannabis supply chain through processing contracts and dispensary relationships. The company is

committed to disciplined operations, product quality, regulatory integrity, accurate inventory control, and

responsible participation in Ohio’s medical and adult-use cannabis markets.

Position Summary

The Senior Compliance Manager will oversee the company’s cannabis compliance program and ensure that

All cultivation, post-harvest, product transfer, contracted processing, and dispensary-related activities are

conducted in accordance with Ohio Division of Cannabis Control requirements, applicable statutes, and

administrative rules, license conditions, and internal standard operating procedures. The role requires strong

attention to detail, excellent documentation practices, practical knowledge of seed-to-sale tracking, and the

ability to work confidently with cultivation, inventory, logistics, processing partners, dispensary teams, senior

leadership, testing laboratories, vendors, and regulators.

This position is expected to identify compliance risks before they become operational or regulatory issues.

build systems that make compliance repeatable, and provide clear guidance to managers and employees.

The Senior Compliance Manager should be able to balance business urgency with disciplined regulatory

controls. The role also requires fluency with AI-enabled productivity and research platforms, including tools

such as Manus, Claude, ChatGPT, and similar systems, to improve compliance research, SOP drafting,

audit preparation, training materials, data review, and executive reporting while maintaining appropriate

confidentiality and human oversight.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Compliance Manager will manage and continuously improve daily compliance activities for the

Level I cultivation facility, including plant tracking, harvest batch documentation, inventory reconciliation,

waste documentation, destruction records, product transfers, manifests, testing coordination, packaging, and

labeling review, product release documentation, and required reporting. The role will maintain accurate

records in the applicable seed-to-sale system and ensure that physical inventory reconciles to the system

inventory at all times.

The role will develop, maintain, and enforce SOPs covering cultivation, harvest, drying, curing, trimming,

storage, quarantine, destruction, transportation, inventory, sanitation, security, testing, incident reporting,

employee conduct, visitor control, and document retention. The Senior Compliance Manager will conduct

regular internal audits and mock inspections, document findings, assign corrective actions, and verify

completion.

For processing contracts, the Senior Compliance Manager will review compliance-sensitive workflows,

confirm that transfers and product movements are properly documented, coordinate required testing, and

chain-of-custody records, and ensure that third-party processors meet applicable compliance expectations.

The role will also coordinate with dispensary partners or affiliated dispensary operations to support

compliant wholesale transfers, product documentation, product complaints, adverse event review, recalls,

and incident response.

Compliance Area Responsibilities

Cultivation compliance: Maintain compliant plant, batch, harvest, waste,

storage, quarantine, testing, and transfer records

for the Ohio Level I cultivation facility.

Seed-to-sale tracking: Oversee Metrc or other required tracking system

entries, reconciliations, tags, manifests,

adjustments, transfers, and exception resolution.

Inventory control: Conduct cycle counts, monthly audits, and discrepancy

investigations, quarantine reviews, and

reconciliation between physical inventory and

system records.

Processing contracts, coordinating compliant transfers, and chain-of-custody

documentation, testing records, product

specifications, packaging, and labeling review, and

partner compliance follow-up.

Dispensary support: Support compliant wholesale documentation,

product release, recall coordination, customer or

product complaint investigation, and dispensary-

facing compliance questions.

SOPs and training Write, update, train, and enforce SOPs; document

Essential Duties

• Lead the company’s cannabis compliance program across cultivation, processing relationships, product

movement, inventory control, testing, documentation, and dispensary-related support.

• Serve as the primary internal resource for Ohio cannabis compliance questions and provide practical

guidance to operations, cultivation, inventory, logistics, sales, and leadership teams.

• Maintain accurate and timely seed-to-sale records, including plant tags, harvest batches, inventory lots,

manifests, transfers, waste records, destruction records, testing records, and product release

documentation.

• Create, revise, implement, and train employees on SOPs and compliance workflows that support

consistent execution and audit readiness.

• Conduct routine internal audits, mock inspections, inventory reconciliations, document reviews, and

compliance spot checks.

• Prepare for regulatory inspections and coordinate responses to regulator inquiries, document requests,

notices, observations, or corrective action requirements.

• Review packaging, labeling, product documentation, certificates of analysis, manifests, chain-of-custody

documents, and product release records for compliance before product movement or sale.

• Coordinate with third-party processors, testing laboratories, transportation partners, dispensaries, and

vendors to ensure compliant product flow and accurate documentation.

• Investigate inventory discrepancies, compliance incidents, security issues, product complaints, adverse

events, or potential violations; document findings and corrective actions.

• Monitor Ohio regulatory updates and translate changes into operational requirements, SOP revisions,

training materials, and leadership recommendations.

• Maintain organized compliance records, inspection files, training files, renewal documents, contracts,

manifests, COAs, audit reports, and corrective action documentation.

Provide regular compliance reporting to senior leadership, including audit findings, open corrective

actions, regulatory risks, and recommended improvements. actions

Requirements

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have at least five years of experience in compliance, regulatory operations, quality

assurance, controlled inventory management, cannabis operations, legal operations, pharmaceutical

operations, food manufacturing, agriculture, alcohol, gaming, or another highly regulated industry. Direct

cannabis compliance experience is strongly preferred, and Ohio cannabis compliance experience is highly

preferred.

Candidates should have working knowledge of seed-to-sale tracking systems, inventory reconciliation,

regulatory inspections, SOP management, audit preparation, controlled inventory environments, document

control, product testing workflows, and corrective action procedures. Strong candidates will be comfortable

reading statutes, administrative rules, regulatory guidance, inspection findings, contracts, lab reports,

manifests, and internal operating procedures.

A bachelor’s degree in business, regulatory affairs, legal studies, agriculture, horticulture, biology, chemistry,

criminal justice, public administration, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent cannabis compliance

experience may be considered in place of a degree.

Required Skills

• Strong understanding of compliance systems in a regulated cannabis or controlled inventory

environment.

• Excellent attention to detail, documentation discipline, and follow-through.

• Ability to interpret regulatory requirements and translate them into practical operating procedures.

• Experience with seed-to-sale tracking, inventory systems, spreadsheets, and document management

tools.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to train employees and brief

leadership.

• Sound judgment, discretion, and the ability to handle confidential or sensitive compliance matters.

• Ability to work cross-functionally with cultivation, inventory, logistics, processing, dispensary, sales,

finance, and executive teams.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Microsoft Office, and digital recordkeeping platforms.

• Fluency working with AI-enabled tools such as Manus, Claude, ChatGPT, and similar platforms to

support compliance research, document drafting, SOP management, audit preparation, training content,

data analysis, and leadership reporting, with appropriate judgment regarding confidentiality, accuracy,

and regulatory risk.

Preferred Experience

Preferred candidates will have direct experience with Ohio cannabis rules, Metrc, cultivation compliance,

processing transfers, dispensary operations, Division of Cannabis Control inspections, product testing

workflows, packaging and labeling review, recall procedures, or multi-license cannabis operations.

Experience training hourly teams, building SOPs, preparing for inspections, managing corrective action

plans, and working with regulators is especially valuable.