Head of Risk & Compliance

Role Overview

• Lead Bitstack's regulatory compliance strategy across MiCA/CASP, payments, and EMI activities.
• Build, manage, and continuously improve scalable governance, escalation, and internal control frameworks across entities and products.
• Primary point of contact with the AMF and ACPR, ensuring timely response to all regulatory obligations and requests, while securing, maintaining, and scaling Bitstack's regulatory licences across EU markets.
• Oversee regulatory audits, inspections, independent controls, and remediation plans.
• Support and monitor regulatory developments across MiCA, AML/CFT, PSD2, EMI, payments, stablecoins, and digital assets, and translate them into operational actions.
• Act as the primary TRACFIN correspondent and declarant, taking full ownership of suspicious activity reporting, enhanced due diligence processes, sanctions governance, high-risk customer management frameworks, and all related regulatory reporting obligations.
• Manage all operational AML and fraud compliance frameworks ( including KYC/KYB, EDD, PEP, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, fraud escalation, adverse media reviews)
• Ensure compliance operations scale effectively as Bitstack expands across products and markets.
• Drive operational excellence across compliance workflows, tooling, SLAs, and remediation processes.
• Build dashboards, KPIs/KRIs, reporting, and governance processes to improve visibility and control.
• Strengthen Bitstack's internal control framework and operational risk management capabilities.
• Oversee third-party compliance providers, outsourced controls, and operational risk related to external partners and regulated service providers.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Operations, and Customer Care to embed compliance into product development from day one.
• Translate complex regulatory requirements into pragmatic product and operational decisions.
• Act as a business partner to leadership teams while maintaining strong regulatory rigor.
• Support the launch of new products, markets, partnerships, and regulated activities.
• Scale and develop the Risk & Compliance organization as Bitstack grows.
• Recruit, mentor, and structure high-performing compliance, risk, and internal control teams.
• Build a culture of ownership, operational rigor, transparency, and sound risk management.
• Lead company-wide compliance training, awareness, and risk culture initiatives.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in compliance, including significant senior-level exposure with management responsibilities, ideally within fintech, e-money, or digital assets.
• Strong working knowledge of AML/CFT, KYC/KYB, PSD2, EMI regulation, and MiCA/DASP frameworks; AMF certification (or equivalent) and ACAMS certification are a plus.
• Demonstrated experience managing regulatory examinations, independent audits, and external compliance relationships.
• Experience building or scaling compliance functions in a fast-moving environment
• comfortable with ambiguity and high ownership.
• Strong product instinct
• able to engage credibly with Engineering and Product teams and translate regulatory requirements into practical product decisions.
• Languages: fluent in French, professional working proficiency in English.

Benefits

• Work from our office in Paris (Bourse) or Remote
• Flexible working hours
• One of the best health insurance plans with 100% employer contributions
• Monthly team activities and annual offsites
• Swile meal vouchers
• Competitive salary based on experience & generous Bitstack stock options