Compliance Officer & MLRO

Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology. Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values, aiming to accelerate the global adoption of crypto for financial freedom and inclusion. We are a fully remote company with Krakenites in 70+ countries, developing premium crypto products for traders, institutions, and newcomers, with a focus on security, education, and world-class client support.

Key responsibilities include: - Owning and continuously improving Payward Brasil’s AML/CTF/CPF and sanctions compliance framework. - Maintaining the local risk-based approach including financial crime risk assessments. - Providing compliance sign-off/advice on Brazil go-to-market and product changes. - Overseeing Brazil customer lifecycle controls (onboarding, CDD/EDD, ongoing monitoring, periodic review, remediation). - Driving vendor performance for identity/CPF/address validation. - Owning internal STR decisioning and external reporting to COAF. - Ensuring operational readiness for Siscoaf filing. - Acting as the local compliance interface for authorities and audits. - Supporting licensing/registration milestones. - Delivering training and communications to Brazil operations, CE, product, and investigations teams. - Producing senior management reporting/MI.

Qualifications: - Demonstrated experience in AML/CTF/financial crime compliance within a regulated financial institution, payments, brokerage, fintech, or crypto/VASP environment. - Strong working knowledge of Brazil AML/CTF expectations (incl. Law 9,613 and BCB Circular 3,978). - Hands-on experience with suspicious activity investigations, STR governance, regulator-facing work. - Proven ability to translate regulatory requirements into operational controls (product + ops + vendor integrations). - Fluent Portuguese, proficient English. - Prior experience standing up a compliance programme for a new regulated entity in Brazil. - Familiarity with exchange/brokerage products, custody concepts, transaction monitoring systems. - Experience with large-scale remediation/migration programmes.

Kraken (legally Payward, Inc.) is a US-based cryptocurrency exchange that facilitates trading of cryptocurrencies, stocks, futures, and ETFs in most US states. It serves over 10 million clients worldwide with $207 billion in quarterly trading volume and has expanded to tokenized equities for non-US customers.