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.
Founded by folks from Goldman Sachs Digital Assets Team, we're backed by some of the best investors in the world including Founders Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, Tiger Global, and more. We are currently the leaders in the space in terms of AUM and are well capitalized to continue growing the firm. We're fully remote, with team members across the U.S.
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.
Key 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.
Qualifications & 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.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- 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.
Perks & Compensation
- 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.
About Ondo Finance
Ondo Finance, founded in 2021 in New York by Nathan Allman, formerly of Goldman Sachs, with co-founder Pinku Surana, leads tokenized Treasuries and yield products including OUSG and USDY, plus development of Ondo Chain for institutional settlement. The platform bridges Wall Street yield to decentralized finance composability through regulated, bankruptcy-remote structures, audited reserves and transparent reporting. Backed by leading investors including Founders Fund and Pantera, Ondo partners with custodians and liquidity providers to bring institutional-grade assets on-chain. Headquartered in New York with teams in San Francisco and remote, the firm combines traditional structuring expertise with DeFi distribution. The culture focuses on compliant tokenization, careful risk design and building durable institutional partnerships for on-chain capital markets with clear investor protections globally.