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SoFi is seeking a Crypto AML & Sanctions Advisor to provide specialized financial crime compliance support for its digital asset and cryptocurrency products. Reporting to the Crypto Compliance Officer, you will identify and mitigate risks related to money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions violations, and illicit finance activity across SoFi's crypto ecosystem while ensuring regulatory compliance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Serve as subject matter expert on crypto financial crime risks, advising the Crypto Compliance Officer, Compliance, Product, Engineering, Investigations, and business leaders
- Provide AML and sanctions advisory across the full crypto product lifecycle: trading, custody, deposits/withdrawals, wallets, stablecoins, staking, and emerging digital assets
- Identify and assess blockchain-specific financial crime risks and recommend appropriate controls including Know-Your-Transaction (KYT), transaction and wallet screening, sanctions exposure assessment, Travel Rule compliance, and escalation frameworks
- Partner with cross-functional teams to evaluate new products, digital assets, blockchain networks, vendors, and material changes for AML and sanctions control implementation
- Develop and enhance crypto AML and sanctions policies, procedures, risk assessments, monitoring controls, and governance frameworks
- Monitor regulatory developments, enforcement actions, emerging crypto typologies, and industry best practices; recommend enhancements to mitigate financial crime risk
- Support regulatory examinations, internal audits, compliance testing, issue management, and third-party risk management activities
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year institution in a related field
- 8+ years of AML, sanctions, financial crime compliance, or related risk management experience with meaningful exposure to cryptocurrency, digital assets, fintech, or technology-enabled financial services
- Comprehensive understanding of cryptocurrency and blockchain products and services
- Strong knowledge of digital asset financial crime risks including money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions evasion, fraud, mixers, self-hosted wallets, and DeFi typologies
- Experience developing, implementing, or advising on crypto AML, sanctions, transaction monitoring, wallet screening, or KYT controls
- Proficiency with blockchain analytics and transaction monitoring platforms (Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or comparable)
- Excellent working knowledge of BSA/AML and OFAC requirements applicable to cryptocurrency and digital assets, including Travel Rule requirements
- Experience conducting financial crime risk assessments for new crypto products, digital assets, blockchain networks, vendors, or material product changes
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively across organizational levels and business lines
