Today, CertiK supports thousands of enterprise clients and Web3 projects globally, with a distributed international team spanning North America, Asia, and Europe. The company is backed by leading investors including Coatue, Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, and Sequoia Capital, and has been recognized by organizations such as the World Economic Forum and CB Insights for its contributions to blockchain security innovation.
About You
You are a hands-on compliance professional who understands how regulatory frameworks and licensing applications work from initial scoping through final submission readiness. You can turn complex regulations into clear guidance and client deliverables, manage both structured audit requests and fast-changing BD needs, and know when an issue requires escalation to senior Compliance or Legal.
About the Role
You will be the first-line compliance owner for AI outputs and related client deliverables. You will support stakeholder groups including client-facing teams and commercial services. You will turn the raw AI output into accurate and usable deliverables, and work as/with Engineering to convert recurring compliance work into reusable workflows and knowledge assets.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and decompose regulatory frameworks and licensing requirements.
- Support licensing and regulatory-readiness projects, including scoping, applicability analysis, gap assessment, evidence requests, policy review, application preparation, and remediation tracking.
- Conduct first-line review of AI outputs for regulatory accuracy, evidence support, source traceability, and client suitability.
- Convert unstructured requests into clear scopes and deliverables, including compliance analyses, and review reports.
- Support compliance guidance, evidence checklists, submission-material mapping, and licensing deliverables.
- Work as/with Engineering to build regulatory mappings, templates, review rules, evaluation cases, and structured AI workflows.
- Escalate high-risk regulatory interpretations and final legal or compliance conclusions to senior reviewers or Legal.
Requirements
- 3 or more years of Engineering experience in compliance, regulatory consulting, digital assets, fintech, financial services, compliance audit, or a law firm.
- Hands-on experience with at least 1 licensing application, regulatory registration, or end-to-end regulatory-readiness project.
- Strong understanding of regulatory analysis, evidence review, and licensing documentation.
- Ability to produce clear guidance, mappings, presentations, and client reports.
- Strong client communication and cross-functional project-management skills.
- Ability to manage urgent and ambiguous requests from client-facing team while maintaining quality.
- Strong written and spoken English; professional Chinese proficiency is preferred but not required.
- Familiarity with digital-asset regulation, VASP licensing or similar frameworks is preferred.
- Basic understanding of LLM limitations, hallucination risk, source traceability, and human-in-the-loop review.
Skills Required
- 3 or more years of engineering experience in compliance, regulatory consulting, digital assets, fintech, financial services, compliance audit, or a law firm
- Hands-on experience with at least one licensing application, regulatory registration, or end-to-end regulatory-readiness project
- Strong understanding of regulatory analysis, evidence review, and licensing documentation
- Ability to produce clear guidance, mappings, presentations, and client reports
- Strong client communication and cross-functional project-management skills
- Ability to manage urgent and ambiguous client-facing requests while maintaining quality
- Strong written and spoken English
- Professional Chinese proficiency
- Familiarity with digital-asset regulation, VASP licensing or similar frameworks
- Basic understanding of LLM limitations, hallucination risk, source traceability, and human-in-the-loop review
- Role must be performed outside the United States (candidates working from within the U.S. cannot be considered)
What We Do
Founded in 2018 by professors of Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK is a pioneer in blockchain security, utilizing best-in-class AI technology to secure and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts. CertiK’s mission is to secure the cyber world. Starting with blockchain, CertiK applies cutting-edge innovations from academia into enterprise, enabling mission-critical applications to be built with security and correctness. CertiK is one of the fastest growing and most trusted companies in blockchain security and has become a true market leader. To date, we have collectively worked with over 1300 enterprise clients, helped secure over $90 billion worth of digital assets, and detected over 23,000 vulnerabilities in blockchain code. Our clients include leading projects such as Aave, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Terra, Yearn, and Chiliz. Our Q1 2021 revenues have more than quadrupled the revenue of the full 2020 year. Since Q1 2020, our team size has more than doubled, and this rate of growth will continue in 2021, creating a highly effective, remote-friendly culture with talents located worldwide. CertiK just raised over $60 million in Series B and B+ funding rounds in 2021. Our investors include top VCs like Tiger Global, Coatue Management, Shunwei Capital and Hillhouse Capital as well as industry leaders like Coinbase Ventures and Binance.
