US Regulatory Manager
Unchained provides financial services and software for bitcoin holders. They offer multi-signature bitcoin vaults for secure storage, loans collateralized by bitcoin, and a trading desk for buying and selling bitcoin. They serve individual clients, businesses, and institutions, also providing specialized services like Bitcoin IRAs and inheritance planning.
About Unchained Capital
Unchained is a financial services company specializing in bitcoin. It offers a suite of products for individuals and businesses, including collaborative custody vaults for secure cold storage, trading services, bitcoin-collateralized loans, and bitcoin IRAs. The company emphasizes client control over their private keys ("Not your keys, not your bitcoin") and provides comprehensive support and advisory services to help clients manage their bitcoin wealth, plan for inheritance, and integrate bitcoin into their financial strategies. They cater to a range of clients from individual holders to businesses, miners, and institutions.
Skills
About the Role
You will operationalize and maintain compliance with U.S. financial services laws across lending, money transmission, payments, and virtual currency activities. You will translate regulatory requirements into scalable operational controls, manage state licensing and reporting, lead regulatory risk assessments, support examinations and audits, advise on new products and partnerships for regulatory alignment, and deliver compliance training across functions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in regulatory compliance, compliance, risk management, legal/compliance, or advisory roles within financial services, fintech, payments, lending, or virtual currency businesses
- Experience managing or supporting state-licensed lending and/or money transmission programs
- Working knowledge of U.S. financial services regulations including state lending and money transmission requirements
- Knowledge of federal regulations such as Reg E, UDAAP, ECOA, TILA, E-Sign Act, and BSA/AML concepts relevant to money transmission and virtual currency
- Experience implementing internal controls, compliance monitoring and testing, reporting frameworks, and audit/examination readiness programs
- Proven ability to work effectively across Product, Operations, Engineering, Finance, and Legal to deliver practical compliance solutions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into operational controls
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, highly regulated, and evolving environment
- Must live in the United States
Responsibilities
- Maintain and scale a comprehensive compliance framework for lending, money transmission, payments, and virtual currency
- Lead enterprise-wide regulatory risk assessments and document risks, controls, and mitigation strategies
- Oversee state licensing programs including maintenance, renewals, reporting, examinations, and regulator communications
- Monitor and interpret federal and state regulatory developments affecting bitcoin and digital asset activities
- Review and advise on new products, services, features, partnerships, and marketing initiatives for regulatory alignment
- Collaborate cross-functionally to identify emerging risks and drive control enhancements and remediation plans
- Develop, implement, and maintain internal controls, monitoring and testing programs, and issue management processes
- Support and manage regulatory examinations, audits, inquiries, and consumer complaints across jurisdictions
- Partner with Product, Operations, Engineering, and Legal to operationalize regulatory requirements into business processes and technical controls
- Develop and deliver compliance training to ensure regulatory requirements are understood and followed
Benefits
- Company paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k with employer match
- Employee stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Training and development opportunities
- Remote work flexibility
