What You’ll Do

Lead Dakota’s Next Regulatory Chapter

• 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.

Who You Are

You have 10+ years in compliance, risk, or regulatory leadership, with meaningful time spent at a regulated financial institution, fintech, payments company, or digital asset business. You have personally led a compliance program through at least one of the following: a licensing process (MTLs, trust charters, EMI), a federal or state examination cycle, or a multi jurisdictional expansion. Ideally, you’ve done more than one.

You understand the difference between building compliance at a 20 person startup and maintaining it at a 2,000 person bank and you’re drawn to the former. You’ve operated in environments where the program was still being built, where you had to make judgment calls without perfect precedent, and where compliance was an enabler of growth rather than a blocker.

Background signals we value

• 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


• Prior experience at companies operating across both traditional payments and digital assets.

What We Offer

• 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