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title: 'Compliance Officer at Douro Labs'
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# Compliance Officer at Douro Labs

- **Company:** Douro Labs
- **Location:** Europe
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dourolabs.xyz/20f3e7d8-6fd4-4d05-8eab-e0b69d04ead4

## Job description

Douro Labs is the core development team behind the Pyth Network. We're looking for a compliance professional to build and manage our AML/KYC processes and lay the groundwork for potential regulatory licensing in the EU.

This role is for an operator who understands the plumbing of institutional trust: someone who can walk a flagged counterparty through a documentation request one hour and brief the General Counsel on jurisdictional threshold risk the next. You will serve as the primary safeguard between Douro Labs and the institutional clients, prime brokers, and financial infrastructure players we onboard, managing the supply side of trust (running AML/KYC review on customers and companies entering our network) and the regulatory side (building the policies, audits, and controls that let Douro Labs pursue EU benchmark administrator licensing).

Location: Remote (EU-based preferred) Type: full-time Reports to: General Counsel

## About Our Team and Your Role

We are a well-rounded team: half of us are tech whizzes, while the other half excel in building partnerships with institutional clients, prime brokers, and the global financial infrastructure community. Trust and diligence are key to how we operate. Remote Work: Our team is spread across the globe, from the US and South America to Europe and Asia. We are a digital-first organization where remote work is the norm. Startup-level Speed: We thrive in the dynamic DeFi space and need a compliance professional who can build sound processes without slowing down the business. We're building an Amsterdam hub with strong technical, business development, and legal/compliance talent. The Mission: You will be building the trust infrastructure behind Pyth Pro, our institutional-grade data solution. As we bring on sophisticated institutional buyers and pursue regulatory licensing in the EU, your work will define how Douro Labs manages risk and earns the confidence of regulators and counterparties alike.

## About the Role

This is a hybrid compliance/operations role. At the outset, you'll manage day-to-day AML/KYC operations for our customer onboarding flow. Over time, as Douro Labs moves forward with EU benchmark administrator licensure, this role is expected to evolve into a full-time Compliance Officer position with broader regulatory responsibility. We operate a deliberately permissive onboarding model: customers get access first, and a compliance review happens behind the scenes. This role exists to manage that review process and build the compliance infrastructure we'll need as we scale.

## Responsibilities

AML/KYC Operations

- Manage the ongoing AML/KYC review queue via Sumsub
- Request and follow up on additional information from flagged customers and companies
- Escalate higher-risk or ambiguous cases to the General Counsel
- Apply onboarding policy consistently across individual and company customers
- Manage and maintain company-wide AML and sanctions policies

EU Benchmark Regulatory Readiness

- Work with engineering to build tracking for feed usage by product type and jurisdiction (EU/UK volume)
- Monitor usage against regulatory thresholds
- Manage customer usage audits
- Help prepare groundwork for potential EU benchmark administrator licensing (policies, procedures, code of conduct for data publishers)
- Develop and implement policies, procedures, and structures required to seek registration as a benchmark administrator in the EU

Internal Compliance

- Keep internal policies current across Douro Labs' multiple entities
- Manage Douro Labs’ onboarding processes at counterparties’ request
- Support periodic reviews to keep the compliance queue moving

Finance Compliance

- Serve as the point of contact for financial compliance, coordinating statutory deliverables with the Finance team and appropriate record keeping
- Maintain internal financial controls: approval workflows, segregation of duties, digital asset policies etc.
- Coordinate the annual external/financial audit for relevant entities and serve as the compliance point of contact for auditors.
- Work with Head of Finance to ensure 360 coverage of all tax obligations across all entities.
- Ensure billing and revenue recognition align with signed customer contracts and applicable standards.
- Flag contract terms with financial/compliance implications and upcoming renewals.
- Track concentration risk across major counterparties.

## About You

- Background in compliance operations, AML/KYC, aC related regulatory function
- Comfortable managing a recurring operational workload independently
- Clear communicator with customers requesting documentation
- Interested in growing into a full Compliance Officer role as our regulatory footprint expands
- Crypto/DeFi or financial infrastructure familiarity a plus, not required
- Comfortable with startup pace and evolving scope

Think you've got what it takes to build the most talented team in the world? We'd love to meet you.

## About Douro Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Douro Labs is a blockchain infrastructure company that develops oracle tooling and protocol infrastructure to expand the Pyth Network, delivering real-time, institutional-grade financial data on-chain.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Unfunded bootstrap; no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Porto, Portugal
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly named; key leadership includes CEO Michael Cahill and Co-founder & COO Ciarán Cronin

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Blockchain infrastructure / Decentralized data services / Web3 development
- **Target customers**: DeFi protocols, smart contract developers, blockchain participants, and financial institutions
- **Mission statement**: To unlock financial data for developers and create fairer, more transparent markets by decentralizing access to real-time market data once reserved for Wall Street

## Products & Services
- **Pyth Network Core Contribution**: Douro Labs is a core contributor to the Pyth Network, the world’s largest first-party oracle for financial data, offering 300+ real-time, sub-second price feeds across digital assets, equities, ETFs, FX, and commodities.
- **Oracle Tooling & Infrastructure**: Builds scalable, battle-tested products that enable secure aggregation and distribution of proprietary data on-chain.
- **Perseus Upgrade**: Delivers 50–80% lower gas costs, faster data delivery, and greater reliability through an advanced architectural framework.
- **Staking & Governance Tools**: Token-led governance with staking rewards and slashing mechanisms to incentivize accurate data submissions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (unfunded company)
- **Key Metric**: The Pyth Network powers over $65 billion in trading volume across 180+ DeFi applications and is integrated across 30+ blockchains.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external funding raised; key partners include Jump Crypto, Pyth Data Association, and leading global exchanges and market makers.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 15.2% YoY (from 22 to 27 employees); operates in 11 countries; team includes alumni from Goldman Sachs, Jump Crypto, BNP Paribas, Amazon Web Services, and Chorus One.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-Party Data Model**: Unlike third-party aggregators, Pyth sources data directly from exchanges and trading firms, ensuring superior fidelity, reduced latency, and enhanced trust.
- **Broad Market Coverage**: 300+ sub-second price feeds spanning crypto, equities, ETFs, FX, and commodities.
- **Crypto-Native Expertise**: Deep protocol knowledge combined with startup agility; team of experienced Web3 builders.
- **Token-Led Governance**: Permissionless mainnet where token holders guide protocol upgrades, fee structures, and ecosystem development.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding Data Feeds**: Continuing to broaden the range of real-time financial data available on-chain.
- **Scaling Infrastructure**: Enhancing scalability, accessibility, and ease of integration for developers through tooling and protocol improvements.
- **Decentralization**: Transitioning to fully permissionless, community-governed operations with staking and slashing mechanisms.
- **Cross-Chain Integration**: Maintaining and expanding presence across 30+ blockchains.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Rated 5.0/5.0 on employer review platforms (3 reviews), with 5.0 for Compensation, 5.0 for Culture, 5.0 for Career Growth, and 4.7 for Work-Life Balance.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but operates across 11 countries with HQ in Porto, Portugal; likely flexible/remote-friendly.
- **Team Composition**: 47% technical staff (18 of 27 employees), indicating a strong engineering culture.
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge Web3 infrastructure alongside talent from Jump Crypto, Goldman Sachs, and AWS; contribute to one of the most widely used oracle solutions in blockchain.
- **Growth Potential**: Early-stage, unfunded company with rapid growth trajectory and significant market impact.

## Sources
1. [dourolabs.xyz](https://www.dourolabs.xyz/)
2. [LinkedIn - Douro Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/douro-labs/)
3. [Tracxn - Douro Labs Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/dourolabs/__LgeIoypju3yqbcD1WrHcmqZ-te2CyEdWKq8EgV_9l-Y)
4. [Finnotes - Douro Labs Profile](https://www.finnotes.org/entities/douro-labs)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com - Douro Labs Careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dourolabs.xyz)

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