Build a Career in Trade Compliance, Not Just a Job in Logistics

Vigilant is built for licensed customs specialists, classification analysts, sanctions screeners, and compliance program managers who want their expertise to matter, not get lost inside a warehouse operation or a rotating consulting bench.

Work That Actually Protects Something

Every classification you complete, every screening you run, every audit finding you catch is standing between a client and a six-figure penalty, a denied shipment, or a federal investigation. At Vigilant, trade compliance isn't a cost center buried inside a logistics operation. It's the entire business. Your work is the product, not a support function to something else.

That distinction matters to the people we hire. If you're a licensed customs specialist or a classification analyst, you already know the difference between a role where compliance is treated as a checkbox and one where it's treated as the point.

Effective Management of Trade Compliance

A Team of Specialists, Not a Bench of Generalists

Vigilant's team is built around dedicated, accountable professionals who stay on their accounts, build deep product and regulatory knowledge over years, and are trusted to own outcomes rather than execute tasks.

That stability shows up in how the team works day to day: opinions are valued regardless of title, colleagues are expected to hold each other accountable, and continuous improvement is treated as a shared responsibility rather than a management initiative. You'll be surrounded by people who've made the same choice you're evaluating: to specialize deeply in global trade compliance instead of treating it as one more service line.

Your Expertise Keeps Growing Here

Trade compliance doesn't stand still, and neither does Vigilant's investment in its people. This is a place to go deeper into your specialty, not get pulled away from it into generalist project work.

ICPA Membership & Conferences

Team members are supported in maintaining active membership in the International Compliance Professionals Association (ICPA) and attending its conferences, staying connected to the professional community that sets the standard for this field.

Peer-Level Learning

You'll be surrounded by people who've made the same choice you're evaluating: to specialize deeply in global trade compliance instead of treating it as one more service line. Opinions are valued regardless of title.

AI in Trade Compliance

Vigilant is building expertise in how artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape classification, screening, and audit work, giving our team a seat at the front of that shift rather than a scramble to catch up.

Nearly Two Decades of Doing One Thing

Vigilant has operated exclusively in global trade compliance for 19 years. We've stayed focused while the market around us has consolidated, pivoted, and diluted itself into logistics-plus-compliance hybrids. That focus has built a stable, growing company where your career isn't tied to whether a parent company's freight division has a good quarter.

If you're evaluating us against a large logistics company or a big advisory firm, this is the honest trade-off: less brand recognition, more depth, ownership, and staying power in the one discipline you've built your career around.

If You're Vigilant About Compliance,
We Want to Hear From You

If you're dedicated, collaborative, and want your specialization to be the whole job and not a footnote to someone else's logistics business, we'd like to talk.