Compliance Manager, Monitoring & Investigations
Ondo Finance · Remote
About the company
Hi, we're Ondo Finance. Our mission is to provide institutional-grade, blockchain-enabled investment products and services. We have both a technology arm that develops decentralized finance technology, and an asset management arm that creates and manages tokenized funds. We were the first company to tokenize exposure to US Treasuries, and have since expanded into several other assets. We are also focused on incubating protocols that can support both tokenized real-world assets and traditional crypto.
About the Role
We're looking for a Compliance Manager to lead and strengthen our monitoring and investigations program across both fiat and on-chain activity. You'll own transaction monitoring, secondary market and trade surveillance, investigations, and regulatory reporting, and you'll be a key partner to Legal, Product, Engineering, and Operations as we scale.
This role suits a hands-on investigator who's equally comfortable tracing funds through a blockchain explorer, analyzing trading patterns for manipulation, and writing a SAR narrative that holds up to regulatory scrutiny.
Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day transaction monitoring program for fiat and digital asset flows, including alert review, escalation, and disposition.
- Design, tune, and document monitoring rules and scenarios based on the firm's risk assessment, typologies, and emerging threats.
- Use blockchain analytics tools to assess wallet exposure, counterparty risk, and illicit-finance indicators such as sanctions, mixers, darknet markets, scams, and ransomware.
- Track alert volumes, false-positive rates, and SLAs, and drive improvements in efficiency and coverage.
- Build and run surveillance for trading activity on primary and secondary markets, including on-chain transfers, DEX/CEX activity, and OTC flows.
- Detect and investigate potential market abuse, including wash trading, spoofing, layering, front-running, pump-and-dump schemes, and insider trading.
- Work with Engineering and Data teams on surveillance tooling, data pipelines, and alert logic.
- Maintain reporting procedures, quality control checks, and audit-ready documentation.
- Support regulatory exams, independent audits, and responses to regulator inquiries.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in financial crimes compliance, with significant hands-on work in investigations, AML/BSA, and transaction monitoring.
- Demonstrated experience with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis (Reactor, KYT), TRM Labs, or Elliptic, and the ability to trace funds independently on-chain.
- Strong working knowledge of the BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, FinCEN guidance, and OFAC sanctions requirements.
- A track record of writing high-quality SAR narratives and investigation reports.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work with large datasets and spot anomalous patterns.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and the ability to handle sensitive matters with discretion.
Nice to Have
- Experience with trade surveillance or market abuse detection at a broker-dealer, exchange, ATS, or digital asset trading venue.
- Familiarity with securities regulations (SEC, FINRA) and how they apply to tokenized assets or digital securities.
- Experience building or scaling a monitoring program at a high-growth fintech or crypto company.
- Experience managing or mentoring analysts.
- Certifications such as CAMS, CCAS, CFE, or CCI.
What we offer
- Competitive compensation including but not limited to salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences) — We are well-funded and believe that great talent deserves great compensation.
- Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) and flexible vacation policy (PTO).
- Remote-first team across many countries — You will be an early team member helping shape our vision, culture, and design practices.
- A+ colleagues — Our team includes alumni from: Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Two Sigma, Bridgewater, SpaceX, AWS, Meta, Google, McKinsey, Circle, Uniswap.
- Best-in-class investors — We are proud to be backed by leading crypto experts and VCs, including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund and Coinbase Ventures.