Head of Compliance Operations and Financial Crimes

23 hours, 4 minutes ago
Full-time
Executive
Operations
Sphere Labs

Sphere Labs

Sphere Labs is a digital payments platform that enhances cross-border transactions, making them fast, secure, and reliable. The company aims to empower businesses and individuals, particularly in underserved and emerging markets, by facilitating global commerce and promoting economic growth. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of services for modern money movement, supporting multiple currencies for seamless transfers. Users can access an end-to-end payments suite through a single API or a no-code console, which includes compliance, accounting, payments, analytics, and developer tools. Key features include a developer toolkit with user-friendly SDKs, comprehensive analytics, and robust security measures. Sphere Labs also provides competitive financial benefits, such as low fees, instant settlements, and non-custodial peer-to-peer payments. Backed by experienced investors and founders from the fintech and blockchain sectors, Sphere Labs is dedicated to delivering scalable and adaptable payment solutions that meet the evolving needs of the digital economy.

financial services
51-200
Founded 2022
$3M raised

Description

  • Evaluate, strengthen, and embed the compliance program across the business, including assessing risks in new geographies.
  • Develop clear, auditable standard operating procedures that translate compliance policies into daily practice.
  • Partner with Product and Operations to define compliance guardrails for new business lines before launch.
  • Own day-to-day compliance operations and ensure consistent application of policies and regulatory requirements.
  • Review, investigate, and disposition transaction-monitoring alerts with timely documentation.
  • Collaborate with Risk, Product, Operations, and Compliance on system design, alert logic, thresholds, and escalation processes.
  • Support customer onboarding with Sales to ensure new relationships meet compliance and risk standards.
  • Lead suspicious-activity investigations and prepare and file SARs in accordance with regulatory requirements.
  • Handle regulatory complaints and law-enforcement requests with appropriate documentation and legal coordination.
  • Train, mentor, and develop junior compliance team members.

Requirements

  • Experience building or significantly maturing a compliance program from the ground up, ideally in crypto, fintech, or financial services.
  • Experience managing compliance programs at scale, including nested or multi-layer onboarding flows involving integrators or partners.
  • Hands-on knowledge of AML, KYC, and KYB frameworks and regulatory requirements.
  • Experience meeting compliance SLAs with strong, auditable operational rigor.
  • Direct experience with transaction-monitoring systems, alert investigations, and alert disposition.
  • Experience conducting suspicious-activity investigations and filing SARs.
  • Deep familiarity with digital assets, blockchain transactions, and crypto-specific compliance challenges.
  • Ability to write clear SOPs and translate policy into repeatable operational processes.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Risk, Product, Operations, and Sales teams.
  • Sound judgment, attention to detail, decisiveness, and ability to work independently in a fast-moving environment.

Benefits

  • Fully remote, global work environment.
  • Opportunity to build and shape an early-stage compliance function with high ownership.
  • Work on cross-border payment and settlement infrastructure alongside banks, licensed entities, and regulators.
  • Join a company with live products serving 200+ businesses and active development across 18 jurisdictions.

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