This is a remote position.
The role
You'll work directly with the CEO to build our core compliance processes. As we scale, you'll eventually work alongside a Head of Compliance.
What you'll do
- Monitor transactions across bank rails and onchain activity, primarily on Stellar. Investigate alerts and document every decision.
- Own manual KYC and KYB reviews, including failed verifications, enhanced due diligence, and high-risk customer cohorts.
- Maintain case management with clear, defensible case notes, and prepare suspicious activity reports for review and submission/filing.
- Maintain our AML/KYC policies, procedures, and customer risk assessment guidelines.
- Help tune alerts and rules in our in-house monitoring dashboard.
- Respond to partner due diligence requests and compliance questionnaires.
- Support our preparation for any VASP registration/licensing.
- Train customer support on red flags and escalation paths.
Requirements
Required Experience
- 2-5 years in AML, KYC, or financial crime compliance at a cryptocurrency exchange, stablecoin company, fintech, or payments company
- Hands-on transaction monitoring experience, including onchain investigations
- Experience writing suspicious activity reports or equivalent escalations
- Ability to draft clear policies and procedures, not just follow them
- Comfort with ambiguity, speed, and imperfect data
- Strong written English
- Ability to work between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm US Eastern Time, regardless of country/time zone of residence.
- Ability to travel to the US occasionally, as necessary.
Nice to have
- CAMS, CCAS, or a similar certification
- Experience with Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or similar tools
- Familiarity with FATF standards, including the Travel Rule, and with VASP regimes
- Experience with the US regulatory environment
- Work permits
- Worldwide
- Timezones
- Worldwide
- Experience
- 2+ years