Product Compliance Manager, Bitcoin & Digital Assets

Block is a company focused on economic empowerment through Bitcoin and digital assets. The Product Compliance Manager will coordinate compliance strategies across Bitcoin products, ensuring regulatory obligations are met while enabling innovation and product launches.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a primary compliance partner to the Bitcoin product team - embedded in product development from day one, helping shape what gets built and how
• Drive compliance strategy across Block's Bitcoin and digital assets products, enabling new features to launch with confidence
• Own Bitcoin-specific risk workstreams and deliver against active regulatory settlement milestones across multiple jurisdictions
• Build and strengthen Block's Bitcoin compliance policy framework - closing gaps, raising standards, and staying ahead of regulatory expectations
• Define what we need to detect and screen for across Bitcoin transactions and sanctions - translating regulatory obligations into clear requirements for engineering teams
• Champion the use of AI and automation to scale our compliance program - identifying where these tools can sharpen detection, reduce manual lift, and make our processes more effective
• Manage relationships with blockchain analytics vendors - evaluate performance, push for better coverage, and ensure our tooling and AI capabilities keeps pace with the ecosystem
• Work directly with engineering teams on how screening, monitoring, automation and risk evaluation systems are designed and governed
• Bring clarity and alignment to complex decisions that span Legal, Compliance Operations, Sanctions, Product, and Engineering
• Be a trusted problem-solver - someone stakeholders come to because you find paths forward

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in compliance, with meaningful time spent in digital asset or cryptocurrency compliance
• Deep knowledge of Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering, sanctions regulations, and how they apply to blockchain-based products and transactions
• Hands-on experience with on-chain analytics tools (Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or similar) - you've used them to identify, assess, and manage risk
• Technical fluency - you can engage with engineering teams on how detection systems, data pipelines, and vendor integrations work
• Experience as a day-to-day partner to product and engineering teams, not just a review function
• A consultative mindset - you build trust by understanding what teams are trying to achieve and helping them get there compliantly
• Experience supporting regulatory exams, audits, or remediation work with state or federal regulators
• Genuine curiosity about digital assets - you follow this space because it matters to you
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience