At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry’s leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.
The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.
As a Member of Compliance, Blockchain Intelligence, you will collaborate with leadership to advance Anchorage Digital’s blockchain analytics capabilities. This role entails collaboratively working with the FCC’s blockchain analytics tools and regulatory strategies, identifying and evaluating blockchain-based risks, and spearheading initiatives to enhance the organization’s comprehension and utilization of blockchain technology and global regulatory requirements.
This role merges technical expertise with strategic foresight to guarantee effective blockchain data management, regulatory compliance, and the recognition of emerging opportunities and risks within the digital asset ecosystem. The role is essential to the Bank’s defense against money laundering, terrorist financing and fraud, as well as the expansion of the Global FCC Model.
Technical Skills:
- Demonstrates expert advisory support across multiple teams, ensuring that the organization remains resilient against blockchain-based financial crimes and adheres to evolving regulatory requirements.
- Provides investigative/analytic support for complex, technical, and/or highly sensitive investigations and initiatives across the FCC functional teams.
- Partners with the FCC functional teams to accurately apply attribution to entities behind cryptocurrency addresses and contracts in support of the FCC and serviced entities.
- Develops and delivers training materials and sessions to internal teams to improve awareness and understanding of blockchain technology, compliance issues, and emerging risks.
- Utilizes blockchain analytics tools to trace the flow of digital assets across multiple networks and identify bad actors.
- Continuously monitors and conducts in-depth analysis of digital asset data to uncover patterns, trends, and suspicious activities across blockchain networks.
- Provides technical analysis for high-risk escalations to assess findings beyond initial flags and/or risk indicators.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Capable of navigating challenges and exercising expert judgment in the selection of processes, techniques, and criteria for obtaining efficient results, working diligently in a fast paced environment where change in prioritization is fluent.
- Provides expert advice and support to compliance, legal, and regulatory teams on investigations related to digital assets, risk mitigation strategies, and the Digital Asset Support Framework.
- Works with FCC leadership to boost operational efficiency and scale through strategic alignment, process improvements, technical integration, automation, knowledge transfer, training, risk mitigation, compliance, proactive insights, and adaptability.
- Offers expert guidance and support the development, implementation, and enhancement of digital asset compliance programs and controls to align with international AML and CTF standards, ensuring compliance with evolving regulations concerning digital assets, DeFi, and VASPs, across global operations.
- Guarantees Anchorage Digital’s digital asset services adhere to local and international regulations and offer insights into regulatory risks linked with blockchain technology.
- Assists in creating policies and procedures for monitoring and reporting suspicious digital asset activities, and assist the Financial Crime Compliance Teams in reviewing secondary market risk of Bank-issued stablecoins, internal attribution, and TRM Labs blockchain analytics alerts, as needed.
- Independently completes projects within the team with minimal supervision from leadership, including collaborating tasks among team members.
- Consistently demonstrates on-time delivery and high quality work product. Where a deadline or commitment is at risk, escalates to manager to help manage priorities, if appropriate, and alerts affected stakeholders so “no surprises.”
Organizational Knowledge:
- Is aware of the strategy of Anchorage Digital to guarantee its successful implementation and is considered when defining the planning and goals of the team.
- Has a deep understanding of Anchorage Digital’s objectives and works with leadership to ensure regulatory compliance is being met.
- Ensures that knowledge is shared amongst Anchorage Digital, and more specifically, the FCC Team, and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.
- Serves as a representative of Anchorage Digital to provide technical knowledge and blockchain tracing expertise during training events/conferences, prospective client meetings/demonstrations, and client support/planning, as needed.
Communication and Influence:
- Stays up-to-date with regulatory developments in the digital asset space and advise on the implications for the business, working closely with internal teams (e.g., Legal, Risk, Compliance, IT) to ensure blockchain initiatives are aligned with business objectives, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
- Engages with external partners (law enforcement, regulators, and blockchain analytics firms) to share insights and strengthen digital asset intelligence capabilities.
- Collaborates with internal teams (e.g., security, and compliance) to coordinate rapid response to blockchain-related incidents, ensuring appropriate Financial Crime Compliance teams are notified and provided sufficient details, as needed.
- Mentors and guides others within the FCC Team, helping to understand the strategic goals of the compliance department and how their work relates to the broader company.
- Able to collaborate with leadership in a professional manner in order to convey insights, recommendations, conclusions and ideas on how to improve the FCC Team.
- Consistently expresses clear, thoughtful, analytical and solutions-oriented communications, whether in high-impact slides/decks, written communications in slack or email, or verbal communications.
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
- Blockchain tracing expertise—across multiple chains
- Expertise in the unique aspects of different layer 1s, along with smart contracts, staking pools, etc.
- Excellent writing and presentation skills
- Experience reviewing transaction monitoring alerts and performing thorough case investigations
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- Investigation certifications from either TRM Labs or Chainalysis
- Previous experience with regulated digital asset compliance
- You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. 🙂
About Anchorage Digital: Who we are
The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.
Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.
Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
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