[Hiring] Head of Compliance Operations @OpenFX

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced Compliance Operations Lead to help build and scale the operating foundation for our Compliance Ops team. This person will lead members of the Compliance Ops team and own the operational execution model for key compliance workflows, including:

• KYB
• KYC
• Transaction monitoring
• Sanctions operations
• Blockchain analytics reviews
• Escalations
• QA
• Operational reporting

This is a hands-on leadership role. The right person will be comfortable getting deep into reviews, understanding how alerts and cases are handled, improving how analysts work, and partnering closely with:

• Second line Compliance
• Legal
• Product
• Engineering
• Data
• Trade Operations
• Business Operations

This role will not own policy drafting, regulatory strategy, or legal interpretation. Those areas sit with second line Compliance and Legal. This role will work closely with those teams and others to review, operationalize, and implement policy and regulatory requirements into clear processes, controls, tooling, and execution standards.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in compliance operations, financial crime operations, AML, KYC, KYB, sanctions, transaction monitoring, or related areas.
• Significant experience leading teams, managing managers, or scaling operational functions in fintech, payments, banking, crypto, trading, or financial services.
• Strong understanding of AML, sanctions, KYC, KYB, transaction monitoring, customer risk review, and suspicious activity escalation workflows.
• Experience building operational standards, review procedures, QA processes, control frameworks, and management reporting.
• Ability to partner effectively with second line Compliance and Legal teams while owning operational execution.
• Experience working with case management systems, transaction monitoring tools, KYC/KYB vendors, sanctions screening tools, or blockchain analytics platforms.
• Strong judgment, attention to detail, and ability to identify operational risk quickly.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, hiring, and building team culture.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced startup environment where processes need to be built, improved, and scaled quickly.

Requirements

• Experience with crypto, stablecoins, blockchain analytics, wallets, exchanges, or on and off ramp products.
• Experience with cross-border payments, FX, money movement, neobanking, or institutional fintech products.
• Experience with tools such as Unit21, TRM Labs, Chainalysis, ComplyAdvantage, Persona, Sardine, Alloy, Sumsub, or similar systems.
• Experience designing alert workflows, queue structures, QA programs, dashboards, or rule performance review processes.
• Experience supporting audits, regulatory exams, partner diligence, banking partner reviews, or regulatory remediation work.
• Experience working across multiple jurisdictions such as the US, UK, EU, UAE, India, Singapore, or Latin America.
• Experience building or transforming a compliance operations function in a high growth environment.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Equity in a rapidly growing company.
• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced startup at the forefront of fintech innovation.
• Opportunity to make a significant impact on global financial infrastructure.
• Collaborative work culture with emphasis on personal and professional growth.

Company Description

OpenFX is on a mission to move money as freely as data, unrestricted by time zones, banking hours, or legacy systems. We are building the infrastructure that will power the next generation of cross-border payment systems for institutions. The team's execution has been exceptional, and we're scaling at a remarkable pace. Our stellar early team comes with experience in companies like J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, FalconX, PayPal, Affirm, Polygon, Kraken, Nium & others.

We’re backed by Accel, Lightspeed, NfX and other top-tier investors.