Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)

Confidential Portfolio Company · Remote-friendly

About Us

Confidential Portfolio Company -- builds the payment rails for the businesses the rest of the financial system overlooks — crypto-native companies and emerging-market financial institutions that move serious cross-border and stablecoin volume but can't get served by mainstream banks. We process billions of dollars a year for a fast-growing client base, and we're building the in-house infrastructure — compliance, orchestration, and direct access — to turn that into a category-defining payments business. We're a small, senior team where every person's work is visible and consequential. Here, compliance isn't a cost center; it's the engine that unlocks our growth.

Responsibilities

• Build in-house compliance and onboarding function from the ground up — the capability that directly unlocks the company's growth.
• Own the BSA/AML, OFAC sanctions, and KYC/KYB programs for a high-volume cross-border and stablecoin payments business.
• Make the onboarding and risk decisions that turn a signed pipeline into live revenue — owning the judgment that is, quite literally, the product.
• Define and confirm the company's regulatory perimeter — FinCEN/MSB registration, money-transmission analysis, and state requirements — in partnership with outside counsel.
• Run transaction monitoring, SAR/CTR workflows, and the compliance reporting and relationships with our banking and licensed-rail partners.
• Be the company's senior compliance voice to the board, partners, and regulators.

Requirements

• 8+ years in financial-services compliance, including senior ownership of a BSA/AML program
• Deep expertise in BSA/AML, OFAC sanctions, and KYC/KYB
• Experience standing up or running compliance at a money services business (MSB) or payments company
• CAMS (or equivalent) and the ability to serve as named BSA/AML Officer
• Comfortable operating hands-on in a small, fast-moving company

Bonus Points

• Hands-on crypto, digital-asset, and stablecoin compliance experience, including the post-GENIUS Act regulatory landscape
• Background in cross-border payments, correspondent banking, and Latin America / emerging-markets remittances
• Working knowledge of money transmitter licensing (MTLs), state-by-state requirements, and the FinCEN MSB framework
• Familiarity with the Travel Rule and blockchain analytics tools (Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM Labs)
• Experience with transaction monitoring systems, KYB/onboarding tooling, and SAR/CTR processes
• Prior role as a Chief Compliance Officer, BSA Officer, or Head of Compliance at a fintech, payments, or digital-asset firm

Perks

• Equity participation in a public company with real upside
• Remote-first
• A genuine founding role: you build the function, own it end to end, and report directly to senior leadership and the board
• The rare chance to own compliance at the frontier of crypto, stablecoins, and cross-border payments