Compliance Operations Specialist

Summary

Join Ethena Labs, a leading DeFi company, as a Compliance Operations Specialist. You will play a key role in supporting the Compliance Manager, ensuring efficient and compliant internal processes. Responsibilities include managing investor onboarding, due diligence, and investigations using platforms like Sumsub and TRM. You will build and implement investor whitelisting processes, handle compliance requests, and streamline operational workflows. This hands-on role requires crypto compliance experience, strong organizational skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, global environment. The position offers a clear path for growth and ownership within Ethena's expanding compliance needs. Ethena Labs offers a flexible, remote-friendly work environment.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with crypto compliance operations, including KYB onboarding, blockchain investigations, and interacting with KYC/AML platforms (Sumsub, TRM, Chainalysis, etc.)
• Strong understanding of corporate onboarding workflows, including complex corporate structures, beneficial ownership checks, and document validation across multiple entity types
• Practical knowledge of AML compliance frameworks and day-to-day transaction monitoring — beyond theory, you know how alerts are triaged, escalated, and resolved
• Excellent organisational and documentation skills; you're comfortable building and maintaining structured knowledge bases and keeping records clean, versioned, and audit-ready
• Ability to manage your own tasks and timelines in a globally distributed team, including ownership of internal deadlines and proactive follow-up with stakeholders
• Comfortable working with compliance tooling and adapting to changing product flows; you’re tech-savvy and can spot inefficiencies in workflows or processes
• $70,000 - $100,000 a year

Responsibilities

• Support the Compliance Manager in executing and refining day-to-day onboarding, due diligence, and investigation processes across Ethena’s global compliance operations
• Manage the full investor and partner onboarding workflow via Sumsub — including document review, entity structuring checks, risk flagging, and case escalation
• Lead the intake and coordination of external compliance and DDQ requests from minters, investors, counterparties, and vendors, ensuring timely and consistent responses using live document repositories
• Help build and implement the investor whitelisting lifecycle, including address collection, sanctions screening, and on-chain transaction monitoring with tools like TRM
• Act as a key internal point of contact for compliance operations by proactively identifying bottlenecks and working with the Compliance Manager to streamline and automate core processes

Benefits

• Work alongside a passionate and innovative team that values collaboration and creativity
• Enjoy a flexible, remote-friendly work environment with opportunities for growth and learning