Director of Compliance at Texas Original
- Full-time.
- In Bastrop, TX.
At Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation, our mission is to create the highest quality medicine that changes people’s lives. We stand beside all who believe in safe, legal and effective access to this powerful medicine. As fellow Texans, we see this as our responsibility to take care of our neighbors. Our vision is to transform Texas through the power and the truth of medical cannabis. We work alongside physicians and their patients with current qualifying conditions to supply prescription cannabis that can change lives. Texas Original operates in one of the most closely regulated environments in American business. Our industry is regulated directly by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). The Director of Compliance is the company's primary point of contact with all regulators. This is a strategic leadership role, not an administrative one. The Director owns Texas Original's regulatory-compliance program end to end, serves as the company's principal internal interface with DPS (and with the DEA upon federal registration), and brings sophisticated legal and regulatory judgment in-house — anticipating and neutralizing enforcement exposure before it materializes, and ensuring that when regulators engage, they meet a disciplined, meticulously documented organization. Physical security is overseen through a Security Manager who reports to this role. Key Responsibilities: 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. …