Compliance Associate

About HIFI

We are sourcing on behalf of HIFI, which is a financial infrastructure platform for the modern internet. Businesses around the world—from fast-growing fintech startups to global financial institutions—use HIFI to move money across stablecoins, fiat rails, and onchain systems through a single programmable interface.

Customers use HIFI to automate payments, orchestrate treasury, power embedded finance products, and launch new global money workflows without needing to build or manage complex banking, blockchain, or compliance infrastructure themselves.

Their mission is to make money programmable by default, and to give developers and businesses the tools to move value instantly, globally, and with software-level control.

About the Team

The HIFI platform team builds the infrastructure, developer experiences, and financial workflows that power stablecoin-native finance at scale. The team designs and maintains the APIs, user-facing tools, and partner integrations that allow customers to create accounts, move money across bank and blockchain rails, and operate compliant global payment systems.

We work across the full lifecycle of modern money movement-from account creation and ledgering, to fiat and stablecoin settlement, to global payouts and onchain connectivity. Our customers span fintech platforms, marketplaces, exchanges, neobanks, payroll providers, and tokenized asset platforms operating across the U.S., Europe, Africa, LatAm, and MENA.

This is an opportunity to help build one of the fastest-growing segments of financial infrastructure and define how money moves on the internet over the next decade.

About the Role

We are seeking a Compliance Associate with expertise across KYC, KYB, and Transaction Monitoring to help design and operate a world-class compliance program at the heart of stablecoin-based money movement.

You will be responsible for managing onboarding controls, enhancing financial crime safeguards, and ensuring operational excellence across AML processes. You’ll collaborate with banking partners, regulators, and internal teams to maintain high trust, high performance, and high accountability as HIFI scales globally.

This role reports directly to the Chief Compliance Officer and is based in-person in New York.

We value people who:

• Find large challenges exciting and enjoy discovering and defining problems as much as solving them
• Deliver — you may enjoy thoughtful conversations and perfecting designs, but in the end, you care about building reliable solutions that ship
• Communicate clearly and comfortably across teams, asking questions, sharing ideas, and speaking up
• Learn quickly, stay curious, and adapt to new challenges with a growth mindset
• Move fast and stay effective in ambiguous, evolving environments, with a strong sense of urgency to get things done
• Give and receive feedback openly, and collaborate across functions
• Bring passion and experience — for Web3, modern payment solutions, or anything else — and channel it into their work

Responsibilities

Financial Crime Oversight

• Manage day-to-day KYC/KYB onboarding reviews, operational approvals, and escalations
• Conduct and oversee transaction monitoring investigations using TRM Labs and internal tools
• Interpret triggers, risk rules, and AML typologies to refine monitoring effectiveness

Investigations & Reporting

• Draft and file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and regulatory notifications when required
• Lead escalations, RFIs, and casework with banking and network partners
• Identify patterns and emerging risks (mule activity, sanctions, fraud, layering, etc.)

Control Design & Governance

• Maintain and enhance compliance policies, playbooks, and lifecycle workflows
• Perform QA, control testing, risk assessments, and tuning of approval logic
• Support exams and audits, ensuring evidence is organized and documentation is audit-ready

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner with Product & Engineering to embed compliance logic directly into system architecture
• Train GTM and onboarding teams on AML fundamentals and risk-based decisioning
• Monitor regulatory developments and ensure timely operational updates

Basic Qualifications

• 3 years AML/financial crime experience in fintech, payments, banking, or digital asset compliance
• Hands-on ownership of KYC/KYB reviews and TM casework in a regulated program
• Familiarity with BSA/AML, OFAC sanctions, Travel Rule, and money transmission frameworks
• Experience drafting SARs and conducting wallet tracing / risk investigations using modern analytics tools
• Outstanding analytical and writing skills. Must be able to distill complex behavior into clear conclusions
• Comfortable making sound risk decisions in real-time under pressure

Preferred Skills & Experience

Interested candidates who meet the basic qualifications should consider applying. The following preferred skills and experience are helpful for this role, but candidates with only some of them are able to be successful on our team. Learning on the job is critical success and part of the excitement of working at HIFI.

• Certifications such as CAMS, CFE, CRCM, Chainalysis/ TRM accreditations
• Experience with KYC/KYB platforms such as Persona and Sumsub
• Experience with stablecoins, blockchain transaction flows, or cross-border payment operations
• Prior experience at a startup or program-build environment