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# Compliance Investigations Manager at Paxos

- **Company:** Paxos
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $156k–$178k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/paxos/870d0c76-5755-422a-834b-b8fe22278c75

## Job description

Applying to Paxos? Our only careers site is [paxos.com/careers](http://paxos.com/careers), and we only recruit via @[paxos.com](http://paxos.com) email. Details below. ___

## About Paxos

Today’s financial infrastructure is archaic, expensive, inefficient and risky — supporting a system that leaves out more people than it lets in. So we’re rebuilding it. We’re on a mission to open the world’s financial system to everyone by enabling the instant movement of any asset, any time, in a trustworthy way. For over a decade, we’ve built blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for the world’s leading financial institutions, like Mastercard, Visa, Robinhood, and PayPal.

## About the Team

The Compliance team at Paxos plays a vital role in ensuring the company adheres to global regulatory standards across financial products and services. This team tackles complex challenges such as AML, sanctions, and transaction monitoring, all while ensuring a robust compliance framework in a rapidly evolving crypto and fintech landscape. By safeguarding Paxos against regulatory risks, the team is essential in helping the company achieve its mission of creating a more transparent and efficient financial ecosystem.

The Opportunity The Compliance Investigations Manager will lead the execution of core compliance objectives, including financial crime investigations and regulatory reporting. In addition to operational leadership, the Compliance Investigations Manager will play a key role in driving strategic compliance initiatives aimed at strengthening Paxos’ financial crime prevention framework. This includes contributing to the design and execution of long-term compliance strategies, enhancing investigative processes through automation and analytics, and ensuring the program evolves in step with regulatory expectations and business innovation.

## What You'll Do

- Oversee implementation of operational objectives of the Compliance Investigations program
- Scale the compliance operations investigations team to support business growth in line with sustainable risk management and compliance support
- Manage and develop key metrics to determine the health of the compliance investigations program
- Oversee end-to-end investigations on a range of cases triggered from KYC/CDD, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring and blockchain analytics.
- Lead a high-performing team while fostering a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and professional growth within Compliance Operations
- Evaluate ongoing technology utilized in the investigations process including but not limited to automation
- Be a senior member of the Compliance team where you help to guide and provide support to the other workstreams

## About You

- 6+ years of experience in Transaction Monitoring and Investigations operations processes including hands on experience executing investigations and drafting suspicious activity reports
- 4+ years of financial crime compliance team management experience
- A fundamental understanding of AML, KYC and Sanctions regulations
- Strong writing capabilities where deliverables are to be reviewed by regulators, auditors and law enforcement
- Experience managing operational data sets including reporting KPIs/KRIs to leadership
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally
- Ability to develop and implement process improvements based on business initiatives and compliance insights.

Important Notice for Paxos Applicants Fraudulent accounts sometimes pose as Paxos recruiters on LinkedIn and other platforms, and fake websites sometimes impersonate our careers site. These scammers attempt to deceive applicants into paying for job opportunities or providing personal financial information. To verify a legitimate Paxos opportunity:

- Our only official careers site is [paxos.com/careers](http://paxos.com/careers)
- We only use @[paxos.com](http://paxos.com) email addresses
- We never ask for payment or financial details to apply, interview, or work here
- For technical roles, we do not perform a coding interview without prior screening by our engineering team

Thanks for your interest in Paxos!

## About Paxos

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Paxos is a regulated blockchain infrastructure company that tokenizes, custodies, trades, and settles assets for enterprise clients, enabling the instant movement of any asset in a trustworthy way.
- **Entity Type**: Private (over $500M in total funding; late-stage, no Series disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Charles Cascarilla (CEO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Blockchain infrastructure, stablecoin issuance & payments, crypto brokerage
- **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprise clients including PayPal, Bank of America, Novi (Meta), Interactive Brokers, and other financial institutions
- **Mission / purpose**: “Enable the instant movement of any asset to anyone in a trustworthy way” and “Open the world’s financial system to everyone” [paxos.com/company](https://www.paxos.com/company?hsLang=en)

## Products & Services
- **Stablecoin Issuance**: Paxos issues several regulated stablecoins – Pax Dollar (USDP), Pax Gold (PAXG), Global Dollar (USDG), PayPal USD (PYUSD), and formerly BUSD. Monthly reserve reports are published for transparency. *(SaaS / Regulated Financial Product)*
- **Crypto Brokerage**: White-label brokerage API that lets enterprises offer crypto trading and custody to their users. *(API / SaaS)*
- **Enterprise Infrastructure**: Tokenization, custody, settlement, and asset movement services for banks and fintechs. *(API / Regulated Service)*

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (conflicting reports may exist; Paxos has not announced a public valuation)
- **Key Metric (Total Funding)**: Over $500M raised (as stated on company site, no precise round breakdown provided) [paxos.com/company](https://www.paxos.com/company?hsLang=en)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Board members include ex-U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, former CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, former Fortune 500 executives Jim Manzi, Scott Malpass, Patricia Kemp, and Brian Stern. Key partners: PayPal, Bank of America, Interactive Brokers. Regulated by NYDFS (first limited purpose trust charter for digital assets, 2015) and now also by the OCC (national trust) and Monetary Authority of Singapore (Major Payments Institution license) [paxos.com/company](https://www.paxos.com/company?hsLang=en)
- **Growth Signals**: Remote-first global team (US, UK, Europe, Asia); headcount ~350 employees (Built In); active job postings across product, engineering, security, compliance, communications – 21 listed on LinkedIn; year-over-year job posting growth of +3.3% (LinkedIn). Paxos received OCC federal oversight in 2025 under GENIUS-ready regulation, signaling expansion into the next regulatory era. [linkedin.com/company/paxos](https://www.linkedin.com/company/paxos)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Regulatory Moat**: One of the few blockchain companies operating as a regulated trust company under NYDFS and OCC, with additional licenses in Singapore. This enables them to serve risk-averse enterprise clients that require compliance-first partners.
- **Transparency & Trust**: Monthly reserve reports for all issued stablecoins – an industry-leading level of disclosure.
- **Blue-Chip Enterprise Clients**: Partnerships with PayPal, Bank of America, and Interactive Brokers demonstrate validated demand from the world’s largest financial institutions.
- **First-Mover in Tokenization**: Received the first limited purpose trust charter for digital assets in 2015, giving Paxos years of regulatory experience.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding Stablecoin Offerings**: Launch of Global Dollar (USDG) and continuation of PYUSD issuance to capture growing stablecoin demand.
- **Global Regulatory Coverage**: Pursuing and maintaining oversight in key jurisdictions (US federal, Singapore) to enable cross-border asset movement.
- **Enterprise Infrastructure Growth**: Deepening the API platform to allow more financial institutions to offer crypto and tokenized assets to their customers without building blockchain technology in-house.
- **Remote-First Engineering Culture**: Hiring across time zones with a focus on ownership, candor, and continuous improvement (as described in careers page) [paxos.com/careers](https://www.paxos.com/careers)

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Policy**: Paxos is “remote-first, with people building Paxos across the US, UK, Europe and Asia” [paxos.com/careers](https://www.paxos.com/careers). Flexibility with high ownership expectations.
- **Culture of Ownership & Candor**: Values include “Be an Owner”, “Real Time Candor”, “Search for the truth” – the company emphasizes high standards, direct feedback, and accountability.
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees are rebuilding the financial system on blockchain, solving hard problems in regulated finance.
- **Growth & Learning**: With ~350 employees and steady hiring (21 open roles across product, engineering, security, senior positions), there is room for impact in a lean, ambitious team.
- **CEO Approval Rating**: 100% on Indeed (based on anonymous employee reviews), indicating strong leadership satisfaction [indeed.com/cmp/Paxos](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Paxos)
- **Perks**: Not fully detailed, but the remote-first setup and public commitment to high standards suggest a results-oriented environment with limited bureaucracy.

## Sources
1. [Paxos Careers Page](https://www.paxos.com/careers)
2. [Paxos About Us](https://www.paxos.com/company?hsLang=en)
3. [LinkedIn – Paxos Trust Company](https://www.linkedin.com/company/paxos)
4. [Built In – Paxos Profile](https://builtin.com/company/paxos)
5. [Indeed – Paxos Reviews](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Paxos)

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