A fast-growing digital asset trading firm is seeking a senior compliance leader to strengthen its U.S. compliance function during a period of continued global growth and regulatory expansion.

This is a high-visibility role sitting within the Legal & Compliance function, partnering closely with senior leadership to enhance regulatory governance, lead core compliance program execution, and act as a key point of contact across regulatory engagement, examinations, audits, and supervisory inquiries.

The successful candidate will bring strong execution discipline, deep knowledge of digital assets and/or trading environments, and the ability to translate complex regulatory expectations into scalable controls, policies, procedures, and operating frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and enhance core compliance programs across the U.S. business, including KYC/CDD, AML, sanctions, transaction monitoring, and trade surveillance.
• Serve as a senior point of contact for U.S. regulators, including NYDFS, FinCEN, SEC, CFTC, and state regulatory bodies.
• Own the coordination, drafting, internal review, and delivery of regulatory responses, examinations, audits, and supervisory engagements.
• Strengthen the firm’s compliance framework through scalable policies, procedures, governance processes, and control enhancements.
• Provide day-to-day leadership across the Americas compliance team, setting clear expectations, delivery milestones, and accountability standards.
• Track regulatory initiatives, remediation efforts, licensing requirements, and supervisory commitments.
• Partner cross-functionally with Legal, Risk, Operations, Trading, Sales, Technology, and senior management to embed compliance into business and product design.
• Support regulatory change initiatives, including emerging digital asset frameworks, stablecoin oversight, licensing obligations, and evolving supervisory expectations.
• Draft and present policies, memos, regulatory position papers, and executive-level updates to internal and external stakeholders.
• Help build a culture of operational rigor, accountability, sound judgment, and proactive risk management.

Ideal Background

• 5+ years of compliance and/or legal experience within financial services.
• Strong experience in digital assets, trading, brokerage, market infrastructure, fintech, or another highly regulated financial services environment.
• Proven experience managing regulatory examinations, supervisory inquiries, audits, or regulatory response processes.
• Strong understanding of U.S. regulatory frameworks, with exposure to agencies such as NYDFS, FinCEN, SEC, CFTC, and state regulators.
• Experience leading or enhancing compliance programs across AML, KYC/CDD, sanctions, transaction monitoring, trade surveillance, or regulatory governance.
• Ability to manage teams and deliver results in fast-paced, high-pressure, and ambiguous regulatory environments.
• Strong executive presence, communication skills, and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Trading, Sales, Technology, Audit, and executive leadership.
• Able to convert ambiguous regulatory issues into clear action plans with ownership, timelines, and measurable outcomes.

What Makes This Role Compelling

This is an opportunity to join a high-growth digital asset trading platform at a critical stage of regulatory and operational scale. The role offers meaningful ownership across U.S. compliance governance, regulatory engagement, and program execution, with direct exposure to senior legal, compliance, and business leadership.

The right person will be an execution-focused compliance leader who can operate at pace, bring structure to complexity, and help shape a best-in-class compliance function in one of the most dynamic areas of financial services.

The Person

You will likely be:

• Execution-driven, with a bias toward clear ownership and delivery.
• Confident engaging with regulators and senior internal stakeholders.
• Commercially aware, but highly risk-conscious.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, evolving regulatory landscape.
• Strong at leading teams, setting standards, and holding people accountable.
• Able to balance strategic judgment with hands-on operational delivery.
• Collaborative, credible, and calm under pressure.