Chief Compliance Officer

🕒 March 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚔 Compliance

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Dakota

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11 - 50 employees

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

🤝 B2B

Fintech • Banking • B2B

Dakota is a financial technology company that provides a modern banking platform powered by stablecoins and backed by U. S. Treasuries. It facilitates global finance by allowing businesses to send and receive USD seamlessly through multiple transfer methods, including ACH, Fedwire, SWIFT, and SEPA. Dakota offers various banking services through global bank partners and emphasizes security, asset control, and automation to optimize financial operations for its users.

📋 Description

• Own the progression from state level readiness into trust-level supervision in the United States. • Serve as the primary point of contact for regulators, auditors, and examiners. • Strengthen governance, escalation, and control frameworks to meet higher tiers of oversight. • Lead the design and implementation of Dakota’s European compliance architecture under EMI and MiCA CASP requirements. • Align U.S. and European programs into a cohesive, scalable framework. • Navigate evolving regulatory expectations across jurisdictions while maintaining operational clarity. • Oversee Dakota’s BSA/AML, sanctions, and transaction monitoring programs. • Expand the compliance program as regulatory scope increases. • Establish a clear and defensible risk posture that balances onboarding rigor, monitoring depth, and scalability. • Continue embedding compliance controls directly into Dakota’s infrastructure. • Leverage and evolve existing tooling investments (Sumsub, Unit21, TRM Labs). • Evaluate where automation and AI can responsibly increase leverage without compromising rigor. • Lead and develop a high performing compliance team. • Build operating rhythms, documentation discipline, and board ready reporting aligned with institutional standards. • Advise the executive team on regulatory developments, stablecoin legislation, and licensing pathways.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in compliance, risk, or regulatory leadership • Meaningful time spent at a regulated financial institution, fintech, payments company, or digital asset business • Direct experience with BSA/AML program design and regulatory examination preparation • Working knowledge of stablecoin specific regulatory requirements (reserve management, issuance controls, the GENIUS Act framework) • Familiarity with MiCA, European EMI licensing, and cross border compliance coordination • Experience managing compliance technology stacks (transaction monitoring, KYB/KYC platforms, blockchain analytics tools) • Track record of working productively with engineering teams to automate and embed compliance controls

🏖️ Benefits

• Engaging problems that increase economic freedom globally • Competitive salary and equity • Employee friendly equity terms (extended exercise) • Remote work, no commuting to the office • Paid co-working space/desk at an office • Health, dental, and vision insurance • Regular team events and off sites