Director of AML & Virtual Asset Compliance
CertiK is a Web3 security platform providing blockchain and smart-contract audits, formal verification, compliance and risk intelligence, monitoring, and validator services.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About CertiK
CertiK is a New York-based Web3 security company founded in December 2017 by professors from Yale and Columbia. Its current offerings include smart-contract and blockchain audits, formal verification, penetration testing, DLT security, KYC and regulatory compliance services, SkyInsights risk analytics, Skynet security intelligence, validator operations, AI Auditor, CertiK Hunt, and Skylens.
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About the Role
You will lead and strengthen AML and virtual-asset compliance work. You will build compliance frameworks, improve sanctions and transaction-monitoring processes, advise financial institutions and VASPs, monitor regulatory developments, and support suspicious-activity reviews and regulatory reporting where applicable. You will collaborate with product, engineering, business development, regulators, law enforcement, clients, and industry stakeholders.
Requirements
- Prior experience as an MLRO, Chief Compliance Officer, Head of Financial Crime, or in a similar senior compliance role.
- Experience across traditional financial institutions and the virtual-asset industry.
- Knowledge of AML, financial crime, sanctions, transaction monitoring, regulatory compliance and reporting, and virtual-asset financial-crime risks.
- Hands-on experience with blockchain analytics, KYT, wallet screening, or similar on-chain compliance tools and processes.
- Strong communication skills.
- CAMS or an equivalent AML qualification.
- Eligibility to work in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Build and improve AML frameworks, virtual-asset compliance strategy, sanctions, risk assessments, transaction monitoring, and investigation processes.
- Advise financial institutions and VASPs on virtual-asset compliance, regulatory expectations, and blockchain-related financial-crime risks.
- Monitor regulatory developments and translate them into practical compliance guidance and product requirements.
- Serve as MLRO or support the designated MLRO on suspicious-activity reviews and regulatory reporting where applicable.
- Partner with product, engineering, business development, regulators, law enforcement, and industry stakeholders.
