Compliance Program Manager
Catena Labs is building a regulated financial institution and governance platform for AI agents, enabling controlled identities, accounts, payments, stablecoin and fiat liquidity, and auditable policy enforcement.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Catena Labs
Catena Labs, Inc. is a Delaware company developing infrastructure for agentic finance. Its Catena platform provides businesses and their AI agents with verified identities, accounts, payment capabilities across cards, ACH, wires, and stablecoins, plus deterministic policies, approvals, spending controls, and audit trails. Catena says its Private Access program is open to selected businesses, operates through regulated partners, and is pursuing an OCC national trust bank charter.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will help establish and operate a Compliance Management System while leading fiduciary compliance, third-party risk management, affiliate transactions, and other non-financial-crimes obligations. You will track regulatory developments, support compliance training, prepare committee and Board materials, and assist with examinations and audits.
Requirements
- 5+ years of compliance experience at a bank or trust company
- Fiduciary and trust compliance experience under 12 C.F.R. Part 9 or general non-financial-crimes compliance
- Strong knowledge of bank Compliance Management Systems and second-line oversight
- Experience with risk assessment monitoring testing issue management and reporting
- Understanding of conflicts-of-interest and self-dealing controls in a fiduciary context
- Exceptional writing and policy procedure and Board-material drafting skills
- Hands-on third-party risk management experience aligned to OCC Bulletin 2023-17
- Working knowledge of Regulation W and Sections 23A and 23B affiliate-transaction controls
- Exposure to digital assets stablecoins or fintech custody and payments
- Experience implementing AI and ML systems for compliance operations
- Experience with a de novo charter or OCC supervision
- CRCM or comparable certification
Responsibilities
- Help establish and operate the Compliance Management System
- Lead fiduciary compliance across custody investment management and trust activities
- Operate third-party risk management across the vendor lifecycle
- Oversee affiliate-provided services
- Administer affiliate transactions and intercompany activity
- Oversee Privacy UDAP and other non-financial-crimes compliance obligations
- Track regulatory developments
- Help deliver compliance training
- Prepare committee and Board materials
- Support examinations and audits
