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# Compliance KYC Manager at Paxos

- **Company:** Paxos
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $156k–$178k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/paxos/05364fdb-0ee9-4ddb-8bce-b093ff335e66

## 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 PayPal, Venmo, Mastercard, Interactive Brokers and Charles Schwab.

## 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.

## About the role

The Compliance KYC Manager will lead a team responsible for customer onboarding and ongoing due diligence, combining deep KYC expertise with hands-on operational leadership. Working alongside associates, the manager will review complex cases, resolve escalations, and coach sound, risk-based decision-making while managing queue performance, quality, and capacity. Ownership of KYC policies and procedures includes maintaining clear, defensible documentation and driving remediation of control gaps and audit or regulatory findings. Close partnership with Product, Engineering, and business teams will be key to navigating competing priorities and improving KYC processes and tools. The role also provides senior management with clear reporting on operational performance, remediation progress, emerging risks, and resource needs.

## What you'll do

- Lead day-to-day KYC operations across customer onboarding and ongoing due diligence, managing queues, priorities, quality, and turnaround times.
- Be hands-on in complex case reviews and escalations, applying sound, risk-based judgment and ensuring decisions are clearly documented.
- Manage and develop the KYC team through coaching, training, performance feedback, and capacity planning across operational and project commitments.
- Own and maintain policies, procedures, and operational guidance, ensuring they reflect applicable requirements and support consistent execution.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, and business teams to resolve challenges, evaluate creative and practical solutions, and communicate priorities, dependencies, and trade-offs.
- Build and maintain relationships with Paxos’ enterprise partners and customers and their Compliance teams.
- Identify control gaps and lead issue remediation, including root cause analysis, corrective action planning, implementation, evidence retention, and validation support.
- Participate in internal and external audits and regulatory examinations, preparing documentation, explaining processes and controls, and coordinating timely, accurate responses.
- Manage KYC vendor relationships, including service performance, issue escalation, capability assessments, and coordination of enhancements.
- Drive improvements to KYC tooling and workflows, defining requirements, supporting user acceptance testing, and ensuring successful implementation and team adoption.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and control effectiveness through automation and appropriately governed AI use.
- Develop and report operational metrics to senior management, highlighting performance trends, quality, backlog aging, remediation progress, emerging risks, and resource needs.
- Support the Compliance Operations team through occasional weekend duty, as business needs require

## About you

- Deep knowledge of US KYC requirements, including customer identification, beneficial ownership, CDD, EDD, customer risk rating, and ongoing due diligence for individual and institutional customers.
- Experience leading KYC operations and working directly in queues, reviewing complex cases, resolving escalations, and documenting defensible, risk-based decisions.
- Demonstrated success managing and developing a team, including coaching analysts to exercise sound judgment, setting performance expectations, and allocating capacity across daily operations and projects.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience partnering with Product, Engineering, Data, and business teams to develop practical solutions.
- Ability to juggle competing priorities, communicate trade-offs and capacity constraints clearly, and drive work through completion.
- Experience maintaining policies, procedures, and supporting documentation, and translating requirements into clear operational guidance.
- Experience owning remediation of control gaps and audit or regulatory findings, including implementation, evidence retention, and validation support.
- Experience developing operational metrics and communicating performance, emerging risks, remediation progress, and resource needs to senior management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex requirements clearly to different audiences.
- A hands-on approach, strong ownership, and comfort operating in a fast-paced environment.
- Familiarity with AI and automation tools, with sound judgment about appropriate use, data protection, and verification of outputs.

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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