Head of Financial Crimes Compliance

About Dakota

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Dakota is a stablecoin infrastructure platform powering modern financial products through regulated money movement, stablecoin orchestration, and cross-border settlement. We serve institutional clients — fintechs, payment service providers, marketplaces, and enterprises — through an API-first platform that abstracts the complexity of custody, compliance, settlement, and banking partnerships.

We are a remote first team across North America and Europe. We value high quality work, clear thinking and ownership.

Key responsibilities

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Financial risk and advisory

• Serve as senior FCC point of contact and SME on fiat and digital assets; contribute to the FCC framework.

• Identify and assess money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions, fraud and other illicit finance risks across digital asset products, clients, counterparties and transaction flows, including blockchain, wallets, custody models, and stablecoins.

• Provide risk-based advice and effective challenge across the product and client lifecycle: new initiatives, product approvals, onboarding and material changes.

• Assess cross-business and cross-regional impacts, promoting consistent minimum standards and documented treatment of regional variances.

Controls and program oversight

• Partner with first-line and other teams to design, enhance and oversee controls for CDD/EDD and KYC, sanctions screening, blockchain analytics, transaction monitoring, case management, investigations, suspicious activity escalation and recordkeeping.

• Review AML programs and internal control structures, including automated solutions, through policy and procedure reviews, gap analyses, risk assessments and regulatory compliance assessments.

• Identify and escalate material risks and control weaknesses, and oversee agreed remediation.

FCC technology, models and data

• Lead implementa...

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