Compliance Manager, Monitoring & Investigations - Ondo Finance

About Ondo Finance

At 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 alumni from Goldman Sachs' Digital Assets Team, we are backed by leading investors including Founders Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, Tiger Global, and more. We are currently leaders in the space in terms of AUM and are well-capitalized to continue growing the firm. We are a remote-first team across many countries.

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, acting as a key partner to Legal, Product, Engineering, and Operations as we scale.

This role suits a hands-on investigator who is equally comfortable tracing funds through a blockchain explorer, analyzing trading patterns for manipulation, and writing SAR narratives that hold 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, driving 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.
• Collaborate 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.

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.
• Proven 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.

Nice to Have

• 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.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package including salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to preferences).
• Full healthcare benefits (medical, vision, and dental).
• Flexible vacation policy (PTO).
• Remote-first work culture across multiple countries.
• World-class team and top-tier crypto/VC backers.