About the company
Who We Are: Ethena Labs is building the first ETH based yield-bearing synthetic dollar. Arthur Hayes is a founding advisor and the team has deep experience across traditional finance and crypto engineering from firms such as Cerberus, Wintermute, Flow Traders, Deribit, Paradigm, Aave, Blockdaemon and Kaiko. We are backed by every major exchange and trading entities in the space. What we are Doing: We are building derivative infrastructure to enable Ethereum to transform into the Internet Bond via delta-neutral derivatives positions, to create the first crypto-native, yield bearing synthetic dollar: sUSDe. We believe creating a synthetic dollar which is not reliant on existing banking infrastructure is the single most important problem to solve and largest opportunity in crypto today. USDe will form the first part of a broader ecosystem of products we are building including fixed and floating rate internet bonds and composable repo leveraged markets.
Job Summary
What You’ll Do
📍Lead Ethena’s financial crime operations by taking ownership of investigations, sanctions reviews, and high-risk case escalations across 📍USDe, sUSDe, USDtb, secondary markets and and upcoming product lines. 📍Design and roll out enhanced due diligence (EDD) processes for institutional and B2B2C partners. 📍Build and refine sanctions monitoring and blacklist frameworks, making sure our in-house case manager and auto-blacklisting logic are applied consistently and effectively. 📍Run the day-to-day investigations and monitoring queues, setting clear expectations for turnaround times, keeping the workflow moving, and making sure every case is handled properly. 📍Own the policies and procedures for financial crime controls — from transaction monitoring and sanctions to EDD and investigations. You’ll keep these policies up to date as regulations evolve across MiCA, BVI, 📍Cayman, and beyond, and translate them into practical guidance that the team can actually use. 📍Work closely with Product, Legal, and Operations to embed financial crime controls into how Ethena builds and launches new products. 📍Be the main point of contact for law enforcement, regulators, and auditors when it comes to financial crime matters. 📍Train and mentor teams across the business — from compliance and ops staff to product managers — on how financial crime risks show up in practice, how sanctions exposure works in a crypto setting, and what good monitoring looks like day to day.
What We’re Looking For
📍Proven experience in financial crime investigations, with a track record of managing complex crypto cases (mixers, cross-chain flows, sanctions evasion). 📍Hands-on expertise with blockchain analytics platforms (TRM, Chainalysis, Elliptic) and onboarding solutions (Sumsub or similar). 📍Strong understanding of AML/CFT, KYC/KYB, and sanctions regulations, with ability to apply them across multi-jurisdictional structures (EU MiCA, BVI AML, Cayman foundation, U.S. MSB). 📍Experience designing and leading EDD programs for complex counterparties, including DAOs, offshore funds, and institutional LPs. 📍Knowledge of building and managing AML/CFT and financial crime programs, including drafting and maintaining policies, procedures, and playbooks. 📍Experience in audit readiness and assurance, including preparing for external AML/FinCrime audits and remediating control gaps.
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