United States (US)
Remote
Director
Full Time
24 days ago
💰$240,000 - $360,000
financial crimescomplianceAMLblockchaincryptoregulatoryleadership
Requirements
- •10+ years of experience in leading global compliance, financial crimes, or related regulatory functions.
- •Mastery of crypto-specific financial crimes typologies at a global scale.
- •Ability to engage constructively with regulators across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously.
- •Ability to manage situations where US obligations conflict with local data privacy laws, bank secrecy regulations, or sovereign requirements in international markets.
- •Deep understanding of the global Travel Rule landscape and managing compliance asymmetry across counterparty VASP relationships worldwide.
- •Ability to evaluate and direct transaction monitoring, KYC, and blockchain analytics technology that works across multiple languages, currencies, fiat rails, and on-chain ecosystems.
- •Established relationships with DOJ, FBI, IRS-CI, Europol, Interpol, and regional law enforcement agencies.
- •Ability to lead a geographically dispersed team across different regulatory cultures, professional norms, and languages.
- •Ability to build a globally consistent but regionally adaptive program architecture.
- •Ability to assess financial crimes compliance requirements of new markets before firm entry.
What You'll Do
- •Design, implement, and continuously mature a global financial crimes compliance program encompassing AML, CFT, sanctions, fraud, and anti-bribery/corruption (ABC).
- •Own the program's risk appetite framework and ensure it is calibrated to the firm's business model, customer base, and geographic footprint.
- •Direct the design, tuning, and governance of transaction monitoring systems across fiat and on-chain activity.
- •Ensure alert thresholds are risk-based, backlogs are managed within defined SLAs, and the program produces defensible SAR filing decisions.
- •Own the SAR program, ensuring timely, accurate, and complete filings with FinCEN.
- •Maintain quality control over SAR narratives and establish clear escalation protocols for complex or high-profile matters.
- •Manage law enforcement requests, grand jury subpoenas, and section 314(a)/(b) inquiries.
- •Lead the firm's use of blockchain analytics tools to identify illicit finance typologies including darknet market proceeds, ransomware, fraud, terrorist financing, and sanctions evasion.
- •Ensure financial crimes functions are operationally coordinated, particularly where typologies overlap including account takeover, pig butchering scams, money mule networks, and romance fraud.
- •Lead engagement with FinCEN, OFAC, state regulators, and international FIUs.
- •Manage regulatory examinations, enforcement inquiries, and remediation commitments.
- •Represent the firm in industry forums and with law enforcement agencies including the DOJ and FBI.
- •Build and maintain a financial crimes typology library specific to crypto and translate intelligence into updated controls and detection scenarios.
- •Build, develop, and retain a high-performing global team of AML analysts, investigators, and compliance professionals.
- •Define career pathways, establish quality assurance programs, and manage third-party vendors supporting investigations and technology.
- •Own the global financial crimes policy framework and ensure policies are operationalized.
- •Ensure all relevant staff receive role-appropriate training on financial crimes risks and obligations.
- •Oversee the annual independent review of the AML program.
- •Serve as the primary point of contact for internal audit on financial crimes matters and ensure findings are remediated on time and sustainably.
Nice to Have
- •Experience with financial crime investigations in the cryptocurrency, blockchain, or digital asset space.
- •Direct experience managing compliance programs in regulated financial institutions or fintech firms operating globally.
- •Background in law enforcement, intelligence, or prosecutorial work related to financial crimes or organized crime.
- •Advanced technical knowledge of blockchain technology, smart contracts, DeFi protocols, or on-chain analytics platforms.
- •Fluency in languages commonly used in key operating jurisdictions (e.g., Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic).
Benefits
- •Competitive total compensation package
- •Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependents
- •Wellness programs, team events, and employee engagement initiatives
- •L&D opportunities and professional development support
About OKX
OKX is the second largest global crypto exchange by trading volume and a leading Web3 ecosystem.
Victoria, Seychelles
1000 - 5000
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency