Head of Compliance

Capital markets are undergoing a fundamental shift. Assets that live in fragmented systems and manual workflows are moving onto blockchains systems designed to move and store value more transparently and efficiently. While this unlocks more open and programmable financial systems it also introduces significant complexity and for most people moving money into this new world is still far too hard.

Fun builds the infrastructure that powers consumer-facing fintech applications handling onboarding account access and powering money movement so users can interact with blockchain-based systems as seamlessly as they do with traditional finance. For fintech builders Fun provides a best-in-class onboarding and deposit stack that drives conversion and unlocks growth. We operate at the intersection of financial infrastructure complex engineering and product experience.

Were looking for a Head of Compliance to build and own the compliance function behind that infrastructure the standards controls tooling and judgment that let Funs infra orchestrate money movement globally without ever being the reason a partner a bank or a regulator hesitates.

This is a first-hire build role. Compliance here is a design input not a checklist bolted onto a finished product. Our architecture is non-custodial our rails span fiat and crypto and our mandate is global which means the compliance posture has to be reasoned from first principles rather than copied from a bank or an exchange. You will work closely with the General Counsel to help set that posture.

This role reports directly to the General Counsel and works closely with the CEO Financial and Operations Engineering Partnerships and Customer Support. You will start with sanctions and the crypto side of the business and grow into ownership of the full program including the fiat side as those rails expand.

The sanctions program. Screening standards escalation and decisioning recordkeeping and reporting end to end with a clear and documented rationale for every design choice.

Policies procedures and risk assessment. The written foundation of the program built for our unique defi-rails architecture rather than inherited from a template. You will be able to explain that architecture and what it does and does not implicate to counterparties who have never seen one.

Vendors and tooling. Selection implementation and ongoing management of blockchain analytics and screening providers held to measurable performance rather than to their sales decks.

Compliance by design. Working with Engineering Product and Customer Success early enough that controls live inside the product not around it. You will be in the room when rails are designed offering critical insight and guidance.

Outside advisors. Directing compliance support and specialist advisors setting the questions owning the answers and deciding what gets built in-house versus bought.

Eight or more years in compliance including meaningful time at a leading crypto or decentralized finance (DeFi) company a digital asset exchange or a financial institution with a serious digital assets practice.

Working command of Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions requirements as applied to on-chain activity practical and current not theoretical.

Direct experience with non-custodial or self-custody product architectures and a clear point of view on how compliance obligations attach to them. This one is a requirement not a preference.

Fluency with blockchain analytics tooling and on-chain investigation you can work a chain of transactions yourself rather than waiting on a vendors report.

A policy mindset. You can write the standard defend it under pressure and tell the difference between a rule a norm and a vendors default setting.

Excellent written communication. The output of this job is largely documents that other people act on.

Comfort as the first and only compliance hire with the ambition to build a function rather than maintain one.

Experience standing up a compliance program from zero at an early-stage company.

Exposure to money transmission money services business (MSB) registration or state licensing frameworks.

Regulatory enforcement or policy experience at an agency a trade association or in private practice.

Familiarity with card scheme rules and the compliance surface of fiat payment rails.