Head of Risk & Compliance

🕒 May 29

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Bitstack

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Crypto • Fintech • B2C

Bitstack is a mobile app that helps consumers save and invest in Bitcoin effortlessly. It offers round-ups on card or bank transactions, automated recurring buys (DCA), instant buy/sell from €1, a card that can earn bitcoin back, and peer-to-peer send/receive functionality. Bitstack operates as a licensed Crypto-Assets Service Provider in France, provides custody via cold, multi-signature storage, and allows users to withdraw to external wallets or convert back to euros.

📋 Description

• Lead Bitstack's regulatory compliance strategy across MiCA/CASP, payments, and EMI activities. • Build, manage, and continuously improve scalable governance, escalation, and internal control frameworks across entities and products. • Primary point of contact with the AMF and ACPR, ensuring timely response to all regulatory obligations and requests, while securing, maintaining, and scaling Bitstack's regulatory licences across EU markets. • Oversee regulatory audits, inspections, independent controls, and remediation plans. • Support and monitor regulatory developments across MiCA, AML/CFT, PSD2, EMI, payments, stablecoins, and digital assets, and translate them into operational actions. • Act as the primary TRACFIN correspondent and declarant, taking full ownership of suspicious activity reporting, enhanced due diligence processes, sanctions governance, high-risk customer management frameworks, and all related regulatory reporting obligations. • Manage all operational AML and fraud compliance frameworks ( including KYC/KYB, EDD, PEP, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, fraud escalation, adverse media reviews) • Ensure compliance operations scale effectively as Bitstack expands across products and markets. • Drive operational excellence across compliance workflows, tooling, SLAs, and remediation processes. • Build dashboards, KPIs/KRIs, reporting, and governance processes to improve visibility and control. • Strengthen Bitstack's internal control framework and operational risk management capabilities. • Oversee third-party compliance providers, outsourced controls, and operational risk related to external partners and regulated service providers. • Work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Operations, and Customer Care to embed compliance into product development from day one. • Translate complex regulatory requirements into pragmatic product and operational decisions. • Act as a business partner to leadership teams while maintaining strong regulatory rigor. • Support the launch of new products, markets, partnerships, and regulated activities. • Scale and develop the Risk & Compliance organization as Bitstack grows. • Recruit, mentor, and structure high-performing compliance, risk, and internal control teams. • Build a culture of ownership, operational rigor, transparency, and sound risk management. • Lead company-wide compliance training, awareness, and risk culture initiatives.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in compliance, including significant senior-level exposure with management responsibilities, ideally within fintech, e-money, or digital assets. • Strong working knowledge of AML/CFT, KYC/KYB, PSD2, EMI regulation, and MiCA/DASP frameworks; AMF certification (or equivalent) and ACAMS certification are a plus. • Demonstrated experience managing regulatory examinations, independent audits, and external compliance relationships. • Experience building or scaling compliance functions in a fast-moving environment - comfortable with ambiguity and high ownership. • Strong product instinct - able to engage credibly with Engineering and Product teams and translate regulatory requirements into practical product decisions. • Languages: fluent in French, professional working proficiency in English.

🏖️ Benefits

• Work from our office in Paris (Bourse) or Remote • Flexible working hours • One of the best health insurance plans with 100% employer contributions • Monthly team activities and annual offsites • Swile meal vouchers • Competitive salary based on experience & generous Bitstack stock options