Senior Crypto Threat Analyst Sanctions
Elliptic helps businesses detect and prevent financial crime in crypto through blockchain analytics and compliance solutions.
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About Elliptic
Elliptic provides blockchain analytics tools for financial institutions, crypto businesses, and regulators to manage risk and investigate crime. Their platform enables real-time wallet screening, transaction monitoring, and cross-chain investigations to ensure regulatory compliance and prevent financial crime.
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About the Role
You will serve as a subject matter expert on global cryptoasset sanctions. You will own sanctions coverage frameworks investigate exposure to sanctioned entities and evasion networks improve monitoring processes remediate coverage gaps mentor colleagues collaborate on platform capabilities and produce reports briefings blogs whitepapers and client-facing intelligence.
Requirements
- Significant professional experience as an intelligence analyst investigator or compliance specialist
- Independent subject matter expertise in global sanctions regimes
- Practical knowledge of OFAC UK EU and UN frameworks
- Experience designing or improving monitoring and alerting frameworks triage processes or investigation playbooks
- Ability to identify systemic coverage risks and drive remediation
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency with blockchain analytics tools OSINT corporate registries and adverse media sources
- Ability to apply AI tools to intelligence analysis research workflows pattern identification OSINT processing and written outputs
- Experience researching sanctions evasion typologies
- Experience with automated sanctions list monitoring cross-referencing tools or detection logic design
- Technical understanding of cryptoassets blockchain architecture and on-chain analytics
Responsibilities
- Serve as the subject matter expert on global sanctions regimes
- Own and document a coverage framework for sanctions designation regimes
- Lead investigations into cryptoasset exposure to sanctioned entities jurisdictions and evasion networks
- Define and evolve the sanctions monitoring operating model
- Identify and remediate coverage gaps
- Coach and mentor junior colleagues
- Collaborate with Product Engineering and Customer teams to translate sanctions intelligence into platform capabilities
- Produce intelligence reports briefings blogs whitepapers and client-facing content
- Represent sanctions intelligence at industry events client briefings and regulatory engagements
Benefits
- Hybrid working with the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
- $650 remote work budget
- 25 days of annual leave plus 8 US public holidays
- Birthday leave
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage
- 401k company match
- Mental health support through Spill
