Senior Compliance Manager, Blockchain & Crypto

Role Overview

• Support the BSA/AML/OFAC Officer with governance, implementation, and oversight of N3XT’s BSA/AML/OFAC compliance program, including policies and procedures, with focus on digital assets / blockchain products
• Assist the BSA/AML/OFAC Officer by providing leadership to Onboarding / Transaction Monitoring Teams and managing escalations related to BSA/AML/OFAC and Onboarding (KYC/KYB/EDD)
• Lead enterprise-wide BSA/AML and Sanctions risk assessments
• Oversee and support investigations and SAR decisioning involving blockchain payments, including sanction/PEP/adverse media hits
• Responsible for OFAC reporting requirements, blocked or rejected transactions, and Travel Rule record keeping requirements as needed
• Partner with data and engineering teams to help our team integrate AI and automation in daily alert clearing and investigation activities (onboarding reviews, screening and transaction monitoring investigations)
• Coordinate and manage responses for third party audits, regulatory exams, internal quality assurance reviews, and bank partner requests
• Own remediation efforts of related findings through issue closure
• Assist in enhancing company-wide compliance risk-based training by incorporating AI and LLM tools to create required modules housed in our learning management system
• Drive automation of data reporting for manual compliance processes, including partner obligation management
• Assist with managing other regulatory compliance initiatives as needed, such as quarterly incident tabletops and regulatory change management

Requirements

• Proven experience (7+ years) in compliance, with experience in banking, crypto and FinTechs
• Managerial experience is required
• Advanced understanding of BSA/AML/OFAC requirements for banks, including enhanced due diligence reviews
• Demonstrated ability to articulate complex, technology-driven compliance methodologies (including AI-driven monitoring) to regulatory bodies, ensuring transparency and 'explainability' during audits and inquiries
• Experience leveraging LLMs and AI Agents to automate workflows
• Familiarity with blockchain analytics tools (TRM/Chainalysis/Elliptic)
• Ability to query data (e.g., Cursor/Looker/SQL) to identify compliance trends without relying solely on engineering support
• Excellent organizational and written skills to draft policies and procedures, review investigation narratives, and requests to clients
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with multiple key employees at the company, including data and engineering teams

Tech Stack

• SQL

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Professional development support
• Work with a diverse, global team in a hybrid-friendly environment