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Chief Compliance Officer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Type
- Full time
- Posted
- 2D AGO
About the role
About Alta
Alta is building global infrastructure for tokenized financial products. On Alta, institutional-grade tokenized bank deposits, money markets, T-bills, equities, and stablecoin payments settle instantly, with compliance executed provably and privately as part of on-chain settlement.
Alta is built to be massively scalable, provably compliant, and cryptographically private. It natively supports agentic payments and connects to a global network of local payment rails.
Our mission is to build the financial rails the world needs.
The Role
This position will offer the opportunity for an experienced financial services compliance professional to design and build a compliance program from the ground up, with Zero-Knowledge Proof technology and Artificial Intelligence tools at the core of the program.
Metal’s business will use digital assets that settle on the Metal blockchain to provide a range of financial services to enterprises. These services may include any or all of payment processing, payment orchestration, custody of digital assets, exchange of stablecoins and tokenized securities for fiat currency, and related foreign exchange trading and settlement. The Chief Compliance Officer ("CCO") will be responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and overseeing the Company's Compliance Program to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, supervisory expectations, and internal policies governing the operations of Metal.
The CCO will serve as the leader of an independent control function responsible for identifying, assessing, monitoring, and reporting compliance risks arising from the Company's products, operations and vendor relationships. The CCO provides strategic regulatory guidance to executive management and the Board while promoting a culture of integrity, ethical conduct, and regulatory compliance. The CCO will also build and manage Compliance Operations to address the specific transactions that require special handling or external reporting (such as Suspicious Activity Reporting), consistent with the Compliance Program and the Company’s regulatory obligations.
The CCO will play a leadership role in enabling Metal and its subsidiaries to obtain appropriate regulatory licenses in the U.S, EU, UK, Singapore, Australia and other countries as customer needs require. The CCO will be an Executive Officer of Metal’s regulated subsidiaries around the world.
Responsibilities
1. Compliance Program Management
Design, implement, and continuously improve an enterprise Compliance Program appropriate for a regulated digital asset financial services company.
Responsibilities include:
Develop the Company's compliance strategy and annual compliance plan.
Adopt and maintain compliance policies and procedures.
Build, manage and scale headcount and resource allocation to enable the Compliance Department to meet its goals
Build Compliance Operations for transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting and management of complex cases
Establish compliance metrics, key risk indicators, and processes for risk assessment.
Report on compliance performance to executive management and the Board.
2. Licensing and Regulatory Compliance
The CCO will advise Metal’s Board and Executive team on licensing strategy and will lead in obtaining licenses or registrations pursuant to that strategy. The CCO will ensure the Company and, as applicable, its vendors, maintain compliance with laws, including the following laws and regulations in the U.S. and EU, and equivalent laws and regulations in the UK, Singapore, Japan, Australia and other countries where Metal may operate:
United States
Bank Secrecy Act and USA PATRIOT Act
GENIUS Act for regulation of stablecoins
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency regulations for Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers and for National Trust Banks
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network regulations
Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions regulations
Securities and commodities laws applicable to tokenized assets
Rules and guidance of self-regulatory organizations such as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the National Futures Association
Regulation of foreign exchange trading
Privacy and Cybersecurity requirements
European Union
Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and crypto-asset service provider (CASP) licensing
Electronic Money and Payment Services legislation
AML Directive and AML Regulation
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive
European Banking Authority and European Securities Markets Authority guidelines
General Data Protection Regulation
Digital Operational Resilience Act
The CCO will closely monitor regulatory developments and recommend operational changes necessary to maintain compliance.
3. AML/CFT Compliance
Build and lead the Company's Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) compliance program tailored to blockchain-based transactions, including:
Financial Action Task Force standards and Travel Rule requirements
Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) identity verification and account opening procedures
Customer Due Diligence program for monitoring of ongoing customer activity, including criteria for triggering Enhanced Due Diligence
Sanctions Compliance
Politically Exposed Person screening
Suspicious Activity Reporting
Record keeping requirements
Law enforcement cooperation
Fraud risk reduction
The CCO will serve as the designated AML/Bank Secrecy Act Compliance Officer, Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) or supervise the designated officers and regional compliance heads for the Company’s regulated subsidiaries.
4. Product and Business Advice
The CCO will help design, and will participate in, governance processes responsible for:
Product approval, including implementation or modification of zero-knowledge proofs, smart contracts, verifiable credentials or other blockchain primitives to facilitate compliance by Metal and its users.
Expansion into new jurisdictions.
Technology risk assessment.
Vendor selection..
Material changes to Metal’s business
Blockchain governance, including criteria for selection and vetting of blockchain validators
The CCO will have authority to require remediation or recommend delaying launches where compliance risks have not been adequately addressed.
5. Regulatory Relations
Serve as the Company's principal compliance liaison with regulators.
Responsibilities include:
Managing supervisory examinations.
Meeting licensing obligations.
Preparing regulatory reports and submitting on time.
Coordinating remediation efforts.
Leading regulatory incident response, communication with regulators and coordination of remedial action to fix the cause of the incident and act on lessons learned
Maintaining positive supervisory relationships.
6. Building a Culture of Compliance
Develop and maintain:
Compliance Charter.
Code of Conduct.
Regulatory Compliance Manual..
Complaint Management Program.
Conflicts of Interest Policy.
Employee Compliance Training Program.
Regulatory Change Management Program.
The Chief Compliance Officer will have direct access to the Board of Directors and, if applicable, the Board Risk Committee. The CCO may meet in executive session with the Board without other members of management present
Qualifications
Minimum 12 years of progressively responsible compliance experience in banking, payments or other regulated financial services, including at least two years of experience in digital assets.
At least 7 years in a senior executive compliance leadership role.
Demonstrated experience building enterprise compliance programs.
Experience leading regulatory examinations and remediation.
Deep knowledge of AML/CFT, sanctions, payments regulation, and digital asset regulatory frameworks.
Experience engaging directly with financial regulators and supervisory authorities.
Excellent judgment, executive presence, and ability to influence across business functions.
Nice to Have
Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager, International Compliance Association diploma in Governance, Risk & Compliance, or equivalent professional certification.
MBA, Juris Doctor (JD), LL.M. or other advanced degree.
Why Alta?
Define the category: Prove real, repeatable, scaled utility in blockchain finance by co-building the infrastructure for tokenized assets.
Strong foundation: Join a well-resourced company with early traction and global distribution.
Founding-level impact: Own a mandate that shapes the company, with a competitive base salary and substantial equity upside.
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