Chief Compliance Officer

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About Dakota Dakota is building regulated infrastructure for the next generation of digital money. We power fintechs, payment service providers, marketplaces, and enterprises through a stablecoin platform that enables compliant money movement, custody, and cross border settlement. Our API abstracts the complexity of banking partnerships, regulatory obligations, and digital asset orchestration into infrastructure designed for institutional use. Dakota has raised $16.5M from CoinFund, 6th Man Ventures, and Triton Ventures. We operate as a FinCEN registered Money Services Business, are pursuing Money Transmitter Licenses across the United States, and are building toward Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licensing and Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization in Europe. We issue our own fully collateralized USD backed stablecoin, DKUSD, backed 1:1 by cash and cash equivalents held in segregated accounts. Our founding team has built regulated financial infrastructure before. Ryan Bozarth previously led Coinbase Custody, helping scale it into the largest crypto custodian in the world. Dakota's technical co-founder built core infrastructure at Airbnb, bringing deep experience in designing resilient, high-scale systems. Compliance and engineering have been tightly integrated from day one, we build infrastructure to withstand scrutiny, not retrofit it later. We are a remote first team across North America and Europe. We value high quality work, clear thinking, and ownership. Why Now Stablecoins are becoming foundational to global financial infrastructure. What began as a crypto native mechanism for settlement is now being adopted by fintechs, payment processors, marketplaces, and enterprises moving real volume across borders. As that adoption accelerates, regulatory frameworks in the United States and Europe are being defined in real time. The companies building compliant infrastructure now will shape how this category matures. Dakota is building that infrastructure. We are not a crypto exchange or a consumer wallet. We are the regulated plumbing that allows companies to move between dollars and digital dollars - programmatically, compliantly, and at scale. Our platform handles fiat to stablecoin orchestration, digital asset custody, compliance-as-a-service, and stablecoin issuance. The Opportunity We are hiring a Chief Compliance Officer to lead this next phase of our compliance and regulatory program as we scale from a U.S. licensed Money Services Business into a globally regulated stablecoin infrastructure platform. Executive impact starts on day one. You will report directly to the CEO, sit on the executive team, present to the Board, and directly influence product roadmap, go to market timing, and partnership decisions. At Dakota's stage, the Chief Compliance Officer shapes the company, not just the compliance function. We already have a strong compliance foundation: a capable team, engineering integrated controls, BSA/AML programs designed for state examination readiness, and a vendor ecosystem that includes Sumsub, Unit21, and TRM Labs. Compliance is embedded in the product, reported to the Board and treated as a strategic driver. What comes next is materially different. We are progressing toward trust level supervision in the U.S. while building toward EMI and CASP authorization in Europe. Stablecoin regulation is evolving through frameworks such as the GENIUS Act in the U.S. and MiCA in Europe. As institutional participation increases, so does scrutiny. The surface area is significant: U.S. state licensing, trust level supervision, European expansion, stablecoin specific regulation, blockchain analytics, and B2B and B2B2C operating models. You are designing the compliance architecture for a platform built to move billions. One distinctive element of Dakota's compliance program: we think about compliance-as-code. Controls are embedded directly into the product, not layered on after the fact. The right leader will find this approach energizing. More on our compliance principles here What You'll Do Lead Dakota's Next Regulatory Chapter Own the progression from state level readiness into trust-level supervision in the United States. Serve as the primary point of contact for regulators, auditors, and examiners. Strengthen governance, escalation, and control frameworks to meet higher tiers of oversight. Build Multi-Jurisdictional Compliance Infrastructure Lead the design and implementation of Dakota's European compliance architecture under EMI and MiCA CASP requirements. Align U.S. and European programs into a cohesive, scalable framework. Navigate evolving regulatory expectations across jurisdictions while maintaining operational clarity. Own Financial Crime and Risk End-to-End Oversee Dakota's BSA/AML, sanctions, and transaction monitoring programs. Expand the compliance program as regulatory scope increases. Establish a clear and defensible risk posture that balances onboarding rigor, monitoring dept

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