Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) - Global Payments Infrastructure
Location: Remote - US
Compensation: $ Competitive
We are building a platform dedicated to enabling drastically faster, cheaper, and more reliable transactions for businesses in emerging markets, working toward a vision of frictionless global commerce. We are looking for a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) to take full, end-to-end ownership of our compliance function. This critical leadership role requires both strategic vision and tactical execution with a strong founder's mindset.
As CCO, you will be the ultimate owner of compliance strategy, execution, and team-building across global markets. You must be equally comfortable defining licensing roadmaps with leadership and diving into the deepest details of operational compliance. Your primary mission is to design robust compliance frameworks that mitigate risk while successfully enabling rapid growth and expansion across emerging markets.
Key Responsibilities:
- End-to-End Ownership: Lead all aspects of compliance strategy, execution, and team-building across global markets.
- Relationship Management: Act as the key compliance liaison with regulators, banking partners, and auditors.
- Strategy & Expansion: Define licensing strategies and regulatory expansion roadmaps while monitoring evolving global regulatory frameworks in fintech, payments, and stablecoins.
- Operational Execution: Dive deep into operational compliance, including KYB, AML monitoring, client risk scoring, and transaction screening.
- Business Integration: Partner closely with product, engineering, and revenue teams to embed compliance considerations into product design, customer onboarding, and market expansion.
- Leadership & Reporting: Recruit, train, and mentor a high-performing compliance team, and provide regular, clear updates to the CEO, board, and investors on compliance risks and opportunities.
- Experience: 15+ years of experience in compliance leadership roles within banking, fintech, or regulatory agencies.
- Domain Expertise: Deep knowledge of global financial regulations, AML/CFT frameworks, and payments compliance.
- Hands-on Operations: Strong hands-on expertise in compliance operations, including KYB, KYC, AML monitoring, and risk assessment frameworks.
- Scaling Track Record: Proven success in managing relationships with regulators and building/scaling compliance programs in high-growth, fast-paced environments.
- Mindset: Possesses a Founder mindset: takes ownership end-to-end with high agency, proactiveness, and the ability to deliver results under pressure.
- Communication: Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
Preferred Experience (Nice-to-Haves):
- Knowledge of cross-border payments and emerging markets regulatory environments.
- Experience with stablecoins or digital assets.
- Equity: Significant equity stake in a rapidly growing, Series A startup, allowing you to own your impact and share in our success.
- Compensation: Market-leading salary, performance bonuses, and top health insurance.
- Autonomy: Freedom to shape your role, with autonomy and resources to innovate without bureaucracy in a high-agency environment.
- Impact: Join a mission-driven team revolutionizing payments for underserved markets, with the chance to build legacy-defining technology.
- Flexibility: Remote-first environment with unlimited PTO.
Due to the high volume of applications we anticipate, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback to all candidates. If you do not hear back from us within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion. We genuinely appreciate your interest and wish you the best in your job search.
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