Compliance Manager, Monitoring & Investigations

About the company

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day transaction monitoring program for fiat and digital asset flows, including alert review, escalation, and disposition.
• Design, tune, and document monitoring rules and scenarios based on the firm's risk assessment, typologies, and emerging threats.
• Use blockchain analytics tools to assess wallet exposure, counterparty risk, and illicit-finance indicators such as sanctions, mixers, darknet markets, scams, and ransomware.
• Track alert volumes, false-positive rates, and SLAs, and drive improvements in efficiency and coverage.
• Build and run surveillance for trading activity on primary and secondary markets, including on-chain transfers, DEX/CEX activity, and OTC flows.
• Detect and investigate potential market abuse, including wash trading, spoofing, layering, front-running, pump-and-dump schemes, and insider trading.
• Work with Engineering and Data teams on surveillance tooling, data pipelines, and alert logic.
• Maintain reporting procedures, quality control checks, and audit-ready documentation.
• Support regulatory exams, independent audits, and responses to regulator inquiries.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in financial crimes compliance, with significant hands-on work in investigations, AML/BSA, and transaction monitoring.
• Demonstrated experience with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis (Reactor, KYT), TRM Labs, or Elliptic, and the ability to trace funds independently on-chain.
• Strong working knowledge of the BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, FinCEN guidance, and OFAC sanctions requirements.
• A track record of writing high-quality SAR narratives and investigation reports.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work with large datasets and spot anomalous patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and the ability to handle sensitive matters with discretion.

Nice to Have

• Experience with trade surveillance or market abuse detection at a broker-dealer, exchange, ATS, or digital asset trading venue.
• Familiarity with securities regulations (SEC, FINRA) and how they apply to tokenized assets or digital securities.
• Experience building or scaling a monitoring program at a high-growth fintech or crypto company.
• Experience managing or mentoring analysts.
• Certifications such as CAMS, CCAS, CFE, or CCI.

What we offer

• Competitive compensation including but not limited to salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences) — We are well-funded and believe that great talent deserves great compensation.
• Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) and flexible vacation policy (PTO).
• Remote-first team across many countries — You will be an early team member helping shape our vision, culture, and design practices.
• A+ colleagues — Our team includes alumni from: Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Two Sigma, Bridgewater, SpaceX, AWS, Meta, Google, McKinsey, Circle, Uniswap.
• Best-in-class investors — We are proud to be backed by leading crypto experts and VCs, including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund and Coinbase Ventures.