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Know Your Customer (KYC) and counterparty due diligence are the first line of defense against financial crime, sanctions exposure, and reputational harm. As Ondo scales its institutional product offerings and onboards a growing number of counterparties across multiple jurisdictions, we are looking for a dedicated Compliance KYC Manager to own, enhance, and oversee our end-to-end customer risk management lifecycle.
This is a foundational role—not simply operational. You will own the KYC infrastructure that enables Ondo to demonstrate to regulators, auditors, and institutional partners that the program meets the standard of a mature financial services organization.
Responsibilities
- Own a comprehensive Customer Risk Rating framework, including tiering criteria, scoring logic, and documentation standards across the counterparty portfolio.
- Own the Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) framework, including trigger events, workflow documentation, and escalation protocols.
- Define and manage monitoring and refresh cadences across all counterparty tiers, ensuring risk profiles remain current and documented.
- Oversee review queues, escalations, and SLA management, maintaining operational efficiency as onboarding volume grows.
- Serve as the primary KYC/AML expert in audits, regulatory inquiries, and partner due diligence processes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in KYC, AML, or compliance operations within financial services or fintech
- Deep knowledge of AML/BSA regulatory requirements, risk-based customer due diligence, and OFAC sanctions compliance
- Demonstrated experience designing or managing Customer Risk Rating methodologies and EDD programs
- Experience supporting regulatory examinations or third-party audits in a compliance capacity
- Strong ability to translate regulatory requirements into scalable operational frameworks
- Excellent written communication skills; able to produce clear policies, procedures, and program documentation
Nice to Haves
- Experience in digital assets, blockchain, or crypto-native financial services
- Familiarity with institutional onboarding workflows across multiple jurisdictions
- CAMS certification or equivalent
What we offer
- 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.
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Ondo Finance
View Company ProfileOndo Finance (operating under ondo.finance, legally Ondo Finance, Inc.) is the premier, enterprise-grade institutional real-world asset (RWA) tokenization pioneer, decentralized investment banking platform, and cross-chain liquidity orchestration powerhouse engineered to act as the definitive, high-velocity bridge transforming traditional financial instruments into highly composable, on-chain digital assets for global investors. Founded in 2021 by former Goldman Sachs digital asset technologists Nathan Allman and Pinku Surana, the enterprise completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of traditional finance and legacy capital markets—characterized by fragmented international settlement systems, geographic market silos, and restricted 9-to-5 banking operating rails—by deploying institutional-grade compliance wrappers around public blockchain smart contracts. Moving far beyond speculative or purely synthetic DeFi primitives, Ondo Finance natively unifies multi-chain tokenized US Treasuries (such as OUSG), yield-bearing alternative stablecoin notes (USDY), and 24/7 cross-border tokenized public equities or ETFs via its advanced Ondo Global Markets framework into a single high-availability capital ecosystem. Commanding a dominant share of the global on-chain treasury market with over $3 billion in Total Value Locked (TVL) across its product suite, the platform is backed by deep strategic alliances with institutional infrastructure heavyweights, utilizing BlackRock's tokenized BUIDL fund for instantaneous liquidity backstops, alongside multi-bank ledger tests coordinated with J.P. Morgan's Kinexys, Mastercard, and Ripple. The high-growth institutional platform has secured more than $24 million in tier-one venture funding led by Founders Fund, Tiger Global Management, and Pantera Capital, alongside foundational acquisitions like Oasis Pro and Strangelove to integrate SEC-aligned broker-dealer, Alternative Trading System (ATS), and native Cosmos interoperability architectures. Under the hood, its technology framework utilizes advanced cross-chain asset bridges, KYC/AML embedded multi-signature smart contracts, daily cryptographic proof-of-reserves reporting, and strict compliance structures aligned with the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940 to guarantee absolute transactional correctness and deterministic processing state. Following a planned executive transition under President and CEO Ian De Bode, the firm continues its rapid global footprint expansion via dual hubs in New York and Hong Kong. What sets Ondo Finance apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing volatile, low-yield native crypto speculation with regulatory-compliant, low-risk sovereign and corporate yield instruments; by bridging the gap between multi-trillion-dollar relational Wall Street book-entry systems and decentralized programmable liquidity pools, the corporation remains the definitive institutional cornerstone of modern on-chain asset management and worldwide real-world asset transformation.
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