[Hiring] Compliance Advisor @TRM Labs

Role Description

You’ll play a pivotal role in helping our customers meet their regulatory and financial crime compliance obligations. This includes deep engagement with:

• Financial institutions
• Crypto native businesses
• Regulators
• Cross-functional internal teams

This role will report into the Head of Compliance Advisory and partner cross-functionally with:

• Go-to-market
• Product
• Policy
• Customer success teams

The impact you’ll have here:

• Support customers in navigating complex compliance-related inquiries and building compliance controls, particularly as our footprint expands in key markets.
• Build credibility and trust with compliance leaders at global financial institutions, accelerating adoption across APAC and North America.
• Anticipate and adapt to evolving financial crime and regulatory landscapes—ensuring our customers receive accurate, actionable insight on everything from AML controls to emerging laundering typologies.
• Deliver clear, consistent guidance that empowers both our internal teams and external stakeholders to uphold robust financial crime compliance standards.
• Represent our platform in high-stakes conversations with regulators, banking partners, and policy influencers—bringing a strong, informed perspective on financial crime risk and compliance integrity.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in AML compliance roles within large financial institutions.
• Thorough understanding of the different functions within a financial crime compliance program inclusive of risk assessments, KYC, transaction monitoring, and sanctions, including workflows, challenges, effectiveness strategies, and key regulatory issues.
• Experience advising stakeholders on how to interpret and meet their regulatory obligations.
• Global regulatory fluency, with working knowledge of key frameworks in the APAC, US, and/or EMEA.
• Experience supporting and/or leading engagements with financial institutions, regulators, or government bodies.
• A practical and scalable approach to compliance—you’re thoughtful about risk, but not dogmatic.
• Excellent communication skills and sound judgment; able to operate autonomously with influence and credibility across senior external stakeholders.
• A low-ego, highly collaborative teammate who thrives in cross-functional environments.
• Fluency in another language is a plus.
• Willingness to travel to speak at conferences in multiple regions.

Benefits

• High velocity, high ownership team that expects clarity, follow-through, and impact.
• Work at the intersection of AI, national security, and fighting financial crime.
• Environment that rewards urgency, adaptability, and outcomes.
• Opportunity to experiment and iterate quickly.

Company Description

TRM Labs provides blockchain analytics and AI solutions to help law enforcement and national security agencies, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses detect, investigate, and disrupt crypto-related fraud and financial crime.

• Trusted by leading agencies and businesses worldwide.
• Focus on enabling a safer, more secure world for all.