[Hiring] Senior Director @K2 Integrity

Role Description

K2 Integrity is seeking an experienced compliance professional with deep subject matter expertise in transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and blockchain analytics program design (rule setting, governance, pre/post implementation testing) and model risk management/validation. Sitting within FCRM Advisory, this individual will serve as the practice’s go-to subject-matter expert and project execution lead across several cross-functional areas (traditional finance, fintech, crypto verticals).

This individual will be responsible for:

• Designing and optimizing detection rules
• Validating model performance
• Documenting methodologies
• Ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, including the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Part 504 annual certification requirements and other applicable U.S. AML/BSA, OFAC, FinCEN, FFIEC, and industry best practices

This is a rare seat for a practitioner who is genuinely bilingual across traditional finance (tradfi) and crypto. You will validate the analytics that banks, stablecoin issuers, and payments firms rely on to detect financial crime — from Actimize and Oracle Mantas to Chainalysis, TRM Labs, and Elliptic — and translate a fragmented set of client needs into a consistent, defensible, and scalable methodology that the firm can deploy at speed and at margin.

What sets this role apart: we are looking for someone who can do both tradfi and crypto — not one or the other. The ideal hire pairs deep, hands-on experience validating blockchain-analytics rule settings with rigorous TM rule design and coverage assessment discipline, has already built a scalable methodology, and actively leverages AI to deliver better, faster, and more defensible outcomes.

This is a remote role in the USA.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in AML model validation, transaction monitoring rule design, sanctions screening, model risk management, and financial crimes compliance
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience in blockchain-analytics settings/model review, including validating and configuring blockchain-analytics rule settings (Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or comparable)
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or international equivalent
• Strong knowledge of model risk management standards/regulatory methodological fluency
• A mixture of consulting and in-house expertise, with hands-on experience across both crypto/digital-asset firms and traditional financial institutions
• Demonstrated experience performing coverage assessments tailored to a client’s risk profile
• Demonstrated experience in sanctions screening rule tuning and list governance
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and stakeholder management skills
• Hands-on platform experience across traditional TM, sanctions screening, and blockchain analytics systems
• Strong technical and data skills, including ability to independently write and review queries to support ATL/BTL testing, rule replication, and data-lineage validation
• Strong understanding of statistical validation techniques, data analysis, and model performance metrics
• Familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, or comparable warehouses; Tableau/Power BI for outcomes analysis and reporting
• AI governance mindset: thinks about AI governance and is comfortable reasoning about how model-risk principles apply to AI/ML systems preferred
• Prior experience with fraud risk models and graph analytics preferred
• AI/ML literacy sufficient to validate ML-based TM or fraud models under model-risk principles (bias, drift, explainability) preferred
• A portable book of work or referral relationships from a prior industry or consulting seat preferred

Requirements

• Experience supporting regulatory examinations and annual compliance certifications