Sanctions Compliance Officer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🚨 AML and Financial Crime

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Polymarket

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

₿ Crypto

🎲 Gambling

💸 Finance

Crypto • Gambling • Finance

Polymarket is a prediction market platform that enables users to wager on the outcomes of various events, including political elections, sports contests, and cryptocurrency price movements. Operating as a decentralized betting service, it allows participants to buy and trade shares in event outcomes, providing a unique way to engage with and speculate on future scenarios. Polymarket combines elements from both traditional markets and blockchain technology, creating an innovative environment for users to make predictions and potentially profit from their insights.

📋 Description

• Own and continuously enhance Polymarket US's sanctions compliance framework, including policies, procedures, governance, risk assessments, screening controls, escalation standards, and documentation • Serve as the primary sanctions subject matter expert, translating OFAC requirements, sanctions programs, regulatory developments, and emerging risks into practical controls • Own end-to-end sanctions screening across customers, transactions, counterparties, beneficial owners, and related parties • Build and lead the sanctions team, establishing staffing, workflows, procedures, escalation criteria, service levels, quality standards, and performance expectations • Manage investigation and disposition of sanctions screening alerts and potential sanctions matches • Develop and maintain escalation and decision frameworks for potentially blocked or prohibited activity • Advise Legal, Compliance, Product, and business teams on sanctions risks • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to embed sanctions controls into onboarding and transaction flows • Establish quality and testing frameworks for sanctions controls • Implement AI and automation opportunities while maintaining human oversight, controls, testing, and governance • Integrate the sanctions function with KYC, AML Investigations, Fraud, and other Financial Crimes teams

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of sanctions, financial crimes, AML, or related compliance experience, with significant direct responsibility for U.S. economic sanctions • Deep subject matter expertise in OFAC regulations, sanctions programs, and guidance • Demonstrated experience building or leading both a sanctions program and sanctions / financial crime screening operations within a regulated financial institution, FinTech, broker-dealer, derivatives firm, payments company, or similarly complex environment • Combination of sanctions advisory and operational leadership experience • Experience leveraging AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve sanctions screening, alert review, investigations, or other financial crimes processes, with appropriate governance, testing, and human oversight • Hands-on experience with sanctions screening, alert investigation, escalation, disposition, and blocked or rejected transaction analysis • Experience designing or overseeing sanctions screening systems, including matching logic, tuning, testing, list management, QA/QC, and false-positive reduction • Experience establishing operational metrics, productivity expectations, quality programs, escalation frameworks, and queue-management processes • Experience advising on sanctions risks associated with customers, counterparties, jurisdictions, transactions, products, and new business initiatives • Ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical guidance and operational controls • Experience drafting sanctions policies, procedures, risk assessments, escalation standards, and operational documentation • Experience supporting regulatory exams, audits, investigations, or independent testing • Strong judgment and ability to independently assess and escalate complex sanctions matters • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment and build a program and operations function while the business scales • Prior OFAC experience, CFTC- or NFA-registered entity experience, digital assets/blockchain experience, sanctions technology experience, or screening operations buildout experience are pluses

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity • Unlimited PTO • Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage • 401k match • Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories