Compliance Operations Analyst, Sanctions and Financial Crimes

Capital markets are undergoing a fundamental shift. Assets that live in fragmented systems and manual workflows are moving onto blockchains – systems designed to move and store value more transparently and efficiently. While this unlocks more open and programmable financial systems, it also introduces significant complexity, and for most people, moving money into this new world is still far too hard.
Fun builds the infrastructure that powers consumer-facing fintech applications – handling onboarding, account access, and powering money movement so users can interact with blockchain-based systems as seamlessly as they do with traditional finance. For fintech builders, Fun provides a best-in-class onboarding and deposit stack that drives conversion and unlocks growth. We operate at the intersection of financial infrastructure, complex engineering, and product experience.
We're looking for a Head of Compliance to build and own the compliance function behind that infrastructure – the standards, controls, tooling, and judgment that let Fun’s infra orchestrate money movement globally.
This is a first-hire, build role. Compliance here is a design input, not a checklist bolted onto a finished product. Our architecture is non-custodial, our rails span fiat (cards, ACH, and local rails, etc.) and crypto, and our mandate is global – which means the compliance posture has to be reasoned from first principles rather than copied from a bank or an exchange. You will work closely with the General Counsel to help set that posture.
This role reports directly to the General Counsel and works closely with the CEO, Head of Payments, Finance and Operations, Engineering, Partnerships and Customer Support.

What You'll Own

Sanctions and financial crimes casework . Day-to-day operation of wallet and transaction screening and monitoring – working the alert queue across sanctions, scam, and address-poisoning flags, investigating and deciding escalations, and documenting a clear rationale for every block, reject, and release.

Reporting, licenses, and recordkeeping . Blocked and rejected transaction reports to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), implementation of new designations and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) special measures as they land, identifying when a general or specific license may apply and escalating to Legal, and records that hold up to a bank, partner, or regulator review.

Screening tuning and quality assurance . Tuning matching logic, risk thresholds, and exposure rules in our blockchain analytics and screening tools – testing changes, reducing false positives, and holding providers to measurable performance rather than to their sales decks.

Rule specifications . Writing clear, testable rule specifications for our in-house rule engine – including the automated rules that keep the review queue manageable – and working with Engineering, Product and Customer Success so sanctions controls live inside the product, not around it.

Procedures and partner questions . Keeping sanctions procedures current, supporting partner and bank due diligence, and explaining our non-custodial architecture – and what it does and does not implicate – to counterparties who have never seen one.

Metrics and coverage . Meeting defined alert-handling service levels, tracking alert volume and false-positive rates, and taking part in a coverage rotation for weekends and off-hours.

What We're Looking For:

- Five or more years in sanctions or financial crimes compliance, including meaningful time at a leading crypto or decentralized finance (DeFi) company, a digital asset exchange, or a financial institution with a serious digital assets practice.

- Working command of OFAC sanctions requirements as applied to on-chain activity – practical and current, not theoretical – and familiarity with UN, EU, UK, and Singapore sanctions regimes.

- The ability to reason clearly about how sanctions obligations attach to non-custodial and self-custody product architectures.

- Fluency with blockchain analytics tooling and on-chain investigation across chains and bridges – including dust and address-poisoning attacks, and the difference between real indirect exposure and incidental dust. You can work a chain of transactions yourself rather than waiting on a vendor's report.

- Precise, defensible judgment. You can make the call on a hard case, document why, and tell the difference between a rule, a norm, and a vendor's default setting.

- Comfort with SQL and AI tools – you can query transaction data directly and use AI to move faster without outsourcing your judgment.

- Excellent written communication. The output of this job is largely documents that other people act on.

- Comfort working at startup speed through a high volume of time-sensitive cases.

Nice to Have:

- Experience building sanctions screening or investigations processes at an early-stage company.

- Experience drafting suspicious activity report (SAR) narratives.

- Exposure to money transmission, money services business (MSB) registration, or state licensing frameworks.

- Regulatory, enforcement, or policy experience – at an agency, a trade association, or in private practice.

- Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) or Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) certification from the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS).

- Familiarity with card scheme rules and the compliance surface of fiat payment rails.

Why Join Us:

- Shape the sanctions controls of infrastructure at the center of a fast-growing business – your calls ship to every application built on Fun at once.

- Work at the intersection of hard engineering, real payment economics, and product craft.

- Ship consequential work quickly, alongside leading applications, protocols, and financial infrastructure providers.

Location and Work Environment

This role is primarily in-person at our Midtown, NYC headquarters. We work together Monday through Thursday for fast, iterative collaboration, with optional WFH Fridays to reset and recharge.

This role has a base salary range of $120,000 – $150,000, shared in accordance with NYC pay transparency guidelines. We aim to pay top-of-market and benchmark compensation regularly to remain highly competitive within our industry. In addition to base salary, we offer a strong total rewards package that may include equity ownership, performance incentives, and comprehensive benefits. Compensation is tailored by level, with offers based on impact, experience, and skillset, while maintaining internal equity across the team.