Member of Compliance, Transaction Monitoring
Anchorage Digital
Legal
United States
Posted on Sep 16, 2025
At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.
The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.
We’re building something truly unique here at Anchorage Digital. As the only federally chartered digital asset bank in the United States, we sit at the intersection of traditional banking and the rapidly evolving world of digital assets. Our transaction monitoring team plays a critical role in that mission: protecting the integrity of the financial system while supporting innovation in a space that’s redefining how money moves.
Joining our team means being part of a first-of-its-kind institution where your work will directly shape the standards for compliance and risk management in digital finance. You’ll collaborate with experts across banking, technology, and crypto to design and refine monitoring strategies that go beyond the playbook of traditional financial institutions. Every decision you help make has real impact. Not just for our clients, but for the broader industry.
If you’re looking for an opportunity to be on the cutting edge, to bring creativity and rigor to solving complex problems, and to help set the tone for how digital assets and banking coexist responsibly, this is the place to do it. We’re not just monitoring transactions. We’re helping write the future of finance.
Technical Skills:
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge and experience with the tools used by the transaction monitoring team, and is able to speak to them at a high level with senior management.
- Demonstrates experience in identifying gaps in team workflows and procedures, raising awareness to leadership with suggestions on how to properly address the gaps and ensure proper procedures are followed, updated, and training conducted within and outside of the team, as appropriate.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Provide feedback to direct leadership on methods or systems used by the team, or outside of the team, having the ability to navigate roadblocks and obstacles that may come up, and escalating when blocked.
- Manage transaction monitoring alerts and disposition workflows.
- Ability to work independently with good time management skills, managing multiple tasks assigned with little to no direction, only requiring work to be reviewed at critical points.
- Be a mentor for new-hires in onboarding, system setup, and training of processes.
- Assist the team in tuning exercises, as well as implementation of monitoring rules to prevent and detect money laundering, fraud or other financial crime responding to emerging trends.
- Is a prolific contributor of high quality who makes impactful contributions to the team, and identifies opportunities for improvement.
- Participate in the hiring process by submitting referrals or conducting interviews.
- Consistently demonstrates on-time delivery and high quality work product. Where a deadline or commitment is at risk, escalates to manager to help manage priorities, if appropriate, and alerts affected stakeholders so "no surprises."
Organizational Knowledge:
- Is aware of the strategy of Anchorage to guarantee its successful implementation and is considered when defining the planning and goals of the team.
- Has a deep understanding of the team's objectives and works with leadership to ensure regulatory compliance is being met.
- Ensures that knowledge is shared amongst the transaction monitoring team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.
Communication and Influence:
- Promotes positive working environments for inside and outside of the team with proper listening, speaking and empathy with colleagues, as well as embodies as a role model of our culture pillars.
- Works closely with the team in order to solve problems and assist or guide other members in processes or workflows within their area of specialization or domain, helping others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to these.
- Uses expert judgment, insight, recommendations, conclusion, and ideas on how to improve the team (e.g., workflows, inventory, etc.)
- Consistently expresses clear, thoughtful, analytical and solutions-oriented communications, whether in high-impact slides/decks, written communications in slack or email, or verbal communications.
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
- Experience in BSA/AML transactional review for institutional clients
- Knowledge in BSA/AML and/or Sanctions regulations
- Expertise in using blockchain analytics tools to disposition transaction monitoring alerts, preferably at a Bank or regulated Exchange
- A passion for building out programs in their early stages, including creation and maintenance of policies, procedures, and new tools
- A proven track record of being able to work independently
- A strong attention to detail
- Highly curious and a fast learner
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- You have expertise in data analytics and/or spreadsheet pivots/formulas for data analysis
- Blockchain Analytics Certifications (TRM, Chainalysis, etc.)
- You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
About Anchorage Digital: Who we are
The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.
Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.
Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
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