Compliance is looking for a Director Global Compliance Operations to join our rapidly growing team. You will be a key member of the Global Compliance Leadership Team and will lead the critical functions of overseeing the Compliance Operations programs comprising various sub-pillars, its strategic roadmap and execution.

This role works closely with the Chief Compliance Officer and a variety of senior stakeholders across the company. 

This is a position that will help continue to drive the culture of Compliance forward while supporting ongoing growth within Paxos.

About Paxos

Paxos is on a mission to enable the movement of any asset, any time, in a trustworthy way. Today’s financial infrastructure is archaic, expensive, inefficient and risky - supporting a system that leaves out more people than it lets in. So we’re rebuilding it. 

As a regulated blockchain infrastructure company, we use technology to tokenize, custody, trade, and settle assets for enterprise clients like PayPal, Bank of America, and Interactive Brokers. Paxos is a top-funded blockchain company, with more than $500 million in total funding from leading investors like OakHC/FT, Founders Fund, PayPal Ventures, and Declaration Partners. Together, we empower today’s financial leaders to build a more open, trusted economy.

As a Director Global Compliance Operations, you’ll get to: 

• Create a scalable due diligence, screening, and onboarding framework to support Paxos’ global expansion and rapid partnership growth.
• Design, build, and scale a Financial Intelligence Unit to support our global AML/CTF programs, including transaction monitoring, investigations, and regulatory reporting functions.
• Develop trade surveillance and monitoring programs and hire a team to support these efforts.
• Establish a compliance business intelligence and analytics function to drive data-driven resource allocation and insights
• Manage and deploy third party outsourcing relationships.
• Implement and scale consumer protection adherence programs.

• Immerse yourself in blockchain technology, cryptocurrency for enterprises and investors, our regulation-first approach, and more!

Your experience should include:

• 7-10 years of prior experience in financial institutions
• Subject matter expertise in anti-money laundering/counter terrorist financing, sanctions, trade surveillance, and consumer protection regulations.
• Organizational design, strategic hiring, and management of large teams (50+).
• Experience leading operations/FIU/investigations team in a high growth environment.
• Ability to create support and buy-in across a wide range of stakeholders; create a strong network of relationships among peers, internal partners, external constituencies and decision makers.
• Strong experience in running a process with a command and control mind-set and has experience in organization design, process re-engineering, driving effective and efficient procedures
• The aptitude to be comfortable acting as an agent for positive change with agility and flexibility
• Familiarity with outsourcing providers and arrangements.

What you’ll love about Paxos:

Paxos has consistently been recognized on the Forbes Fintech 50, CB Insights Blockchain 50 and Built In’s “Best Places to Work” lists. Paxonians have significant ownership and impact on our business, as well as benefits like company equity, health insurance, family leave, a quarterly stipend for development, a stipend for home office setup and unlimited PTO. From team product demos and virtual lounge and learns to care packages and an active Slack #shoutouts channel, there are countless opportunities to connect and make your mark. Help us continue to build a new, open financial system from one of our three offices or right from your home!

Learn more: 

Company

• Web 3.0 Is Still the Place to Be
• A Conversation with Paxos Product Leaders
• Paxos Raises $300M in Series D Funding at 2.4B Valuation 

Customers

• Paxos & PayPal Bring Crypto to Millions of Users
• Mercado Libre Reaches 1M+ Users in 60 Days With Paxos
• Paxos Was Built to Protect its Customers

Media

• CNBC Crypto World Interviews Paxos CEO on USDP stablecoin
• Paxos CEO Charles Cascarilla’s Perspectives on the Current State of the Global Economy
• Yahoo Finance Interviews Paxos CEO on Testimony to U.S. Congress and Stablecoin Infrastructure

Our Paxos team is made up of passionate people from all over the world with different perspectives and experiences. If this opportunity excites you, but your experience doesn’t perfectly match the description…apply! Unique voices help us build a more transparent and open economy.

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