The Role
Lead and enhance compliance operations by managing risks, overseeing client onboarding processes, and building a strong compliance team while collaborating cross-functionally.
Summary Generated by Built In
We’re looking for a high-impact Director/VP of Compliance Operations to lead from the front and take full ownership of our daily compliance operations. If you're energized by fast-moving environments, thrive under pressure, and are looking to have an outsized influence on one of the fastest-growing payment companies globally, this role is for you.
You’ll be the engine behind our compliance operations—leading cross-functional projects that make the entire compliance program smarter, faster, and more resilient, while personally jumping in when and where needed to keep things moving. This role is ideal for someone with deep experience in compliance operations, a strong understanding of banking and payments infrastructure, and the ability to bridge the gap between compliance, operations, product, and engineering. You will act as a strategic thought partner to the Chief Legal & Compliance Officer, while rolling up your sleeves to get things done.
Key Responsibilities
- Compliance Operations: Design, implement, continuously improve, and manage a robust compliance framework tailored to the stablecoin and payments industries, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements (e.g., BSA/AML/CTF, KYB/KYC, OFAC/sanctions, transaction monitoring).
- Client Onboarding: Oversee and refine the end-to-end onboarding of Conduit’s global client base, ensuring seamless, compliant, risk-based, and frictionless processes.
- Banking & Infrastructure Partner Support: Be the front-line owner for banking partners, managing Requests for Information (RFIs) and other requests while maintaining strong relationships to support business growth. Maintain accurate documentation, testing results, and compliance records to build institutional trust and transparency.
- Team Building: Recruit, train, and lead a world-class compliance team. Create a culture of urgency, ownership, and constant improvement.
- Risk Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate compliance risks, staying ahead of regulatory changes in the fast-evolving stablecoin space.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, engineering, and operations teams to implement compliance-by-design in new workflows and features that align compliance with business objectives.
- Hands-On Execution: Roll up your sleeves to handle day-to-day compliance tasks while building scalable processes.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of relevant experience in compliance, or risk positions in fintech, payments, or cryptocurrency, with at least 3+ years in a leadership role.
- Proven track record of getting things done: onboarding clients, managing banking relationships, owning RFIs, and solving challenges quickly.
- Deep knowledge of U.S. regulatory frameworks (BSA/AML, KYB/KYC, OFAC/sanctions, etc.) and familiarity with global compliance standards (FATF, the Travel Rule, correspondent banking, risk management, Wolfsberg, etc.).Hands-on operational experience with an exceptional bias for action; comfortable working in a fast-paced, startup environment.
- Experience building and managing compliance teams from the ground up.
- Strong communication skills to interface with regulators, banking partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to work remotely in ET timezone with flexibility for occasional travel.
- Bonus: Experience in stablecoin or blockchain-based payments; familiarity with blockchain analytics tools like Chainalysis or TRM Labs.
Why join Conduit?
- Work in a highly collaborative, global environment where compliance is seen as a strategic enabler, not a bottleneck.
- A culture of extreme ownership and radical transparency—we expect a lot, and we give a lot.
- The freedom to build without red tape—autonomy, ownership, and resourcefulness are the defaults.
- Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and the chance to shape the team that will define our legacy.
- A mission-driven team reshaping cross-border payments with cutting-edge infrastructure that’s obsessed with doing work that matters.
- Colleagues and managers who viscerally care about your development and will do everything in their power to help you grow.
This isn’t just another job.This is a chance to leave your fingerprints on something big. If you’ve been waiting for the right team, the right opportunity to be your best self —this is it.
Top Skills
Blockchain Analytics Tools
Bsa/Aml
Chainalysis
Ctf
Kyc
Ofac
Trm Labs
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The Company
What We Do
Conduit is a better way for global businesses to simply and cheaply move money and grow money with faster speed, better visibility and fewer steps than traditional payment rails.
With a Conduit account, global businesses can swap between local fiat (>25 local currencies supported), digital assets (e.g., USDC, USDT), and U.S. Dollars (USD) to make seamless cross-border commercial transactions, earn yield on tokenized bonds such as U.S. treasury bills or energy contracts, and hold digital assets.
Conduit gives global businesses an early-mover advantage to maximize new financial opportunities to make cross-border B2B payments and settle invoices simply and efficiently -- including to & from U.S. companies without requiring a U.S. entity or U.S. bank account.
The Conduit payments dashboard offers businesses a simple, elegant, and intuitive dashboard to make cross-border payments today. Get started at conduit.fi
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