Certik is seeking a Director of Product for AML & Digital Asset Compliance to lead product development for compliance solutions in the digital asset space. This role involves customer engagement, product strategy, and collaboration across teams.
Born from groundbreaking research at Columbia University and Yale University, CertiK is a leading Web3 security company focused on securing blockchain protocols, smart contracts, and decentralized applications through cutting-edge security research, formal verification, and AI-powered technology. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York City, CertiK provides end-to-end security solutions including smart contract audits, penetration testing, on-chain monitoring, incident response, and compliance services for some of the largest projects in the digital asset ecosystem. Today, CertiK supports thousands of enterprise clients and Web3 projects globally, with a distributed international team spanning North America, Asia, and Europe. The company is backed by leading investors including Coatue, Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, and Sequoia Capital, and has been recognized by organizations such as the World Economic Forum and CB Insights for its contributions to blockchain security innovation.
- Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for CertiK's AML and digital asset compliance products.
- Spend significant time with customers and prospective customers, including CCOs, MLROs, AML teams, investigators, and risk leaders, to deeply understand their workflows and unmet needs.
- Identify repeatable market problems behind individual customer requests and determine which problems should become scalable products.
- Translate customer and market insights into product concepts, prototypes, requirements, and clear engineering priorities.
- Drive products from discovery through design, development, launch, adoption, and iteration.
- Define the key workflows, risk models, decision systems, and user experiences required by institutional compliance teams.
- Work closely with Engineering and Data teams to make appropriate product and technical trade offs.
- Partner with Business Development and customer facing teams during strategic sales cycles, including discovery, product demonstrations, pilots, and design partnerships.
- Work with Compliance and regulatory experts to translate evolving AML, sanctions, and digital asset requirements into scalable product capabilities.
- Measure success through customer adoption, product usage, enterprise wins, expansion, and other measurable business outcomes.
- Significant product management experience building B2B software in fintech, regtech, financial services, risk, compliance, or digital assets.
- A track record of owning meaningful products or product areas from discovery through launch and adoption.
- Deep understanding of AML, financial crime, transaction monitoring, sanctions, KYC/KYB, investigations, or related compliance workflows.
- Experience building or working closely with products such as transaction monitoring, blockchain analytics, wallet screening, risk engines, case management, investigation platforms, or compliance workflow systems.
- Strong customer discovery skills. You can speak credibly with senior compliance leaders and frontline analysts, understand both what they say and what they actually need, and translate those insights into product decisions.
- Strong product judgment. You know the difference between a one off customer request and a repeatable market need, and you are comfortable making hard prioritization decisions.
- Commercial instincts. You understand that a successful enterprise product must not only work, customers must adopt it, pay for it, and expand their usage.
- Ability to operate in an ambiguous, early stage product environment and personally drive work forward rather than simply coordinate across teams.
- The expected annual base salary range for this position in the United States is $150,000 to $220,000. Compensation for candidates outside the United States will be determined based on location, experience, and qualifications.