Head of Compliance

🕒 August 25

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚔 Compliance

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Sphere Labs

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

🔌 API

💰 $5M Venture Round - Sphere on 2024-12

Crypto • Fintech • API

Sphere Labs is a fintech company offering APIs, SDKs, hosted widgets, and web dashboards to enable fiat on‑ramps and off‑ramps, stablecoin payments, multi‑chain transfers, and optimized cross‑border settlement. It provides developer tools, a self-serve business dashboard, private-desk high-touch services, and white-label embedded ramp solutions that integrate payments, FX routing, custody, and compliance to help businesses move and settle funds globally.

📋 Description

• Evaluate the existing compliance program, identify gaps in adoption and execution, and scale it into a well-used, well-understood, embedded program across the business • Evaluate risks associated with new geographic areas and enhance the compliance program accordingly • Write clear, actionable Standard Operating Procedures that translate policy into repeatable, auditable day-to-day practice • Partner with Product and Operations to identify compliance requirements for new initiatives before launch • Own and manage daily compliance activities, ensuring consistent application of policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements • Review, investigate, and disposition transaction-monitoring alerts with timely, well-documented decisions • Partner with Risk, Compliance, Product, and Operations on system design, alert logic, thresholds, and escalation processes • Support complaints filed with regulatory bodies and prepare timely, accurate, well-documented responses • Partner with Sales on customer onboarding to ensure compliance and risk standards are met • Support law enforcement inquiries and requests with appropriate documentation and legal coordination • Lead suspicious-activity investigations and prepare and file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) • Train, mentor, and develop junior compliance team members

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience building or significantly maturing a compliance program from the ground up, ideally within crypto, fintech, or financial services • Track record of meeting compliance SLAs and operating with strong, auditable rigor • Experience managing a compliance program at scale, including nested/multi-layer onboarding flows involving integrator or partner relationships • Strong, hands-on knowledge of AML, KYC, and KYB frameworks and regulatory requirements • Direct experience with transaction monitoring systems and alert disposition/investigation processes • Demonstrated experience conducting investigations and filing SARs • Crypto-native — deep familiarity with digital assets, blockchain transactions, and the unique compliance challenges of the crypto industry • Highly decisive, with the judgment to make timely calls in ambiguous or high-stakes situations • Ability to write clear, effective SOPs and translate policy into practice • Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with Risk, Product, Ops, and Sales teams • Excellent judgment, attention to detail, and ability to operate independently in a fast-moving environment