Global Head of Sanctions

3 weeks, 3 days ago
Full-time
Executive
Operations
Block

Block

Block is a company that consists of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, TBD, and foundational teams. They are focused on economic empowerment by creating tools to expand access to the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow businesses, Cash App redefin...

Capital Markets
10K-50K
Founded 2009

Description

  • Own Block’s global sanctions compliance program end-to-end across fiat and digital asset products.
  • Develop and maintain the company’s sanctions policies, standards, and multi-year strategy.
  • Define the sanctions risk framework and oversee sanctions control design across products.
  • Build, lead, and scale a sanctions compliance team and develop future leaders.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Detections, and Legal to embed sanctions controls into systems and architecture.
  • Serve as the senior external point of contact for sanctions matters with regulators and agencies.
  • Lead voluntary self-disclosures, regulatory reporting, subpoenas, and responses to escalated sanctions issues.
  • Evaluate and improve sanctions screening infrastructure, including vendors, alert thresholds, and tooling.
  • Coordinate oversight of execution for sanctions controls across real-time payments, P2P transfers, Bitcoin, merchant acquiring, and BNPL.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of sanctions compliance experience.
  • Experience across both a major financial institution and a high-growth fintech or payments company is strongly preferred.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
  • Deep, current knowledge of OFAC, UN, EU, and OFSI sanctions regimes.
  • Experience with virtual assets, DeFi, and blockchain-based value transfer.
  • Proven track record of building and leading high-performing sanctions or financial crimes teams.
  • Hands-on experience designing or overhauling sanctions screening programs at scale.
  • Experience with vendor selection, threshold calibration, false positive reduction, and integration with transaction infrastructure.
  • Experience representing compliance in regulatory exams, enforcement discussions, and voluntary self-disclosures.
  • Experience with ML-assisted screening tools and AI-enabled solutions.
  • CAMS, CGSS, or equivalent certification preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive starting pay of $228,700 to $343,100 USD depending on location and qualifications.
  • Remote work options.
  • Medical insurance.
  • Flexible time off.
  • Retirement savings plans.
  • Modern family planning benefits.
  • Inclusive interview experience with reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants.

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