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title: 'Compliance Officer at HIFI'
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# Compliance Officer at HIFI

- **Company:** HIFI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hifi/6c4683cd-d6e6-4cf6-a021-5db9f3f7f82d

## Job description

## About the job

## About HIFI

HIFI is a stablecoin infrastructure company building technology for the next-generation of financial products. We build tools for payments and tokenized money products across money movement, cards, and capital markets. Institutions and enterprises already use our platform and APIs to move billions of dollars in production environments around the world, and we are still early.

Founded in 2022, our organization is flat and our team is talent dense. We work in person at our office in Flatiron and are intentional about who we work with. We've raised $37 million from world-class investors, including a Series A led by Left Lane Capital.

## About the Team

HIFI's compliance team is what makes it possible for banks, fintechs, and institutions to move money on stablecoin rails with confidence. The team owns the BSA/AML program, sanctions controls, and client onboarding that every partnership and every dollar of volume depends on. As stablecoin regulation takes shape this role helps HIFI scales from an early-stage startup into a long-term, category-defining platform, this team will set the standard for how compliance is built into institutional stablecoin infrastructure, as a core part of the product rather than an add-on.

The Head of Financial Crime Compliance owns that effort day to day. You'll run HIFI's BSA/AML and sanctions program across both fiat and on-chain flows, and you'll be the primary point of contact for banking partners, auditors, and examiners. This is a senior role with real ownership: you'll set policy, manage and grow the compliance team, and work directly with product and engineering to turn regulatory requirements into onboarding flows and monitoring rules.

## Responsibilities

- Own HIFI's BSA/AML and sanctions compliance program across fiat and stablecoin flows, including the annual risk assessment and independent testing.
- Oversee KYC/KYB and enhanced due diligence for institutional clients, fintechs, and financial institutions, and make final calls on high-risk onboarding decisions.
- Manage transaction monitoring and investigations, including alert quality, escalation standards, and final review and filing of SARs.
- Run sanctions screening (OFAC and other applicable lists) on clients, counterparties, and blockchain wallet addresses, and set the standards for resolving potential matches.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for banking partners, auditors, and examiners, and own responses to diligence requests and exam findings.
- Write and maintain compliance policies and procedures, including stablecoin-specific requirements under the GENIUS Act, and brief leadership on regulatory changes that affect the business.
- Partner with product and engineering to design onboarding flows, monitoring rules, and system controls, and evaluate and select compliance vendors and tooling.
- Hire, manage, and develop the compliance team, and set the processes that let the function scale with transaction volume.

You might be a fit if

- 7+ years of relevant experience in BSA/AML, financial crime compliance, payments compliance, fintech compliance, banking, crypto, or a related field.
- Experience operating at a senior individual contributor or management level within a regulated financial services, payments, fintech, crypto, or banking environment.
- Strong working knowledge of BSA/AML, KYC/KYB, customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, OFAC sanctions, transaction monitoring, and suspicious activity escalation.
- Strong understanding of payment flows, including ACH, wire, RTP, cross-border payments, virtual accounts, and other bank payment rails.
- Strong familiarity with stablecoins, digital asset transactions, blockchain-based settlement, wallets, and crypto compliance risks.
- Experience working with compliance platforms such as Sumsub, Persona, TRM Labs, Chainalysis, or similar systems.
- Demonstrated experience improving or redesigning manual compliance processes through automation, workflow design, tooling, or operational controls.
- Strong judgment and the ability to distinguish between regulatory requirements, partner requirements, internal policy, and risk-based business decisions.
- Ability to communicate complex compliance issues clearly to technical, operational, commercial, and executive stakeholders.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to drive remediation and implementation work across multiple teams.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where products, regulations, counterparties, and risk profiles evolve quickly.

## Why This Role Matters

Every institution that moves money on HIFI's rails is trusting that the compliance behind them is airtight. This is a chance to build that trust from the ground up at a stablecoin payments infrastructure company as it scales, and to help set the standard for how compliance should work.

Additional Requirement Must be within a commutable distance from our office and able to work in person most days of the week.

## Equal Opportunity Statement

HIFI is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We also provide reasonable accommodations during the hiring process. Featured benefits Medical insurance, Vision insurance, Dental insurance

## About HIFI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: HIFI builds composable API infrastructure for programmable money, enabling developers to move, convert, route, and orchestrate value across stablecoins and bank rails.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; total funding $8.2M)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, United States
- **Founded**: 2022 (per LinkedIn) / 2023 (per Built In)
- **Founders**: Zach Walsh (CEO & Co-Founder); Jake Walsh (Head of Partnerships)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial services / Payments infrastructure (stablecoin and programmable money)
- **Target customers**: B2B – developers, fintechs, enterprises (from two-person startups to Fortune 100s) who need to move money programmatically across blockchains and traditional bank rails.
- **Mission statement**: “Rethink what a dollar can be” – turn money into software with embedded rules, behaviors, and logic.

## Products & Services
- **HIFI API Platform**: A set of composable API endpoints that handle deposits (bank, card, wallet), payment routing to any destination, programmable capital controls (approvals, limits, restrictions), and issuance/management of real-world assets as on-chain tokens.
- **Stablecoin Infrastructure**: Multi-chain settlement engines, private transactions, cross-border payouts, automated treasury management, and conversion between stablecoins and fiat.
- **Compliance & Security Layer**: Built-in KYC/KYB, sanctions screening, SOC 2 Type II compliance, hardened key custody, isolated wallets, role-based access, and encrypted transaction telemetry.
- **Bank Partnerships**: Registered MSB with principal-agent bank partnerships for settlement and custody in a regulated environment.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total raised = **$8.2M** (Seed + Pre-seed rounds); billions of dollars in payment volume already processed.
- **Notable Investors**: Antler (led pre-seed round); 10 investors in the 2024 Seed round; other unnamed participants.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+171% YoY** (LinkedIn) to ~19–25 employees.
  - Billions of dollars moved through the platform.
  - Active in multiple regions (US, Middle East, Japan) with global operations.
  - Recent job postings (Software Engineer, Payments Program Manager) signal scaling.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Programmable money at the asset level** – Not just a payment rail; money itself becomes code (rules, logic, behaviors embedded in the token).
- **Dual infrastructure** – Bridges stablecoin rails (multi-chain) and traditional bank rails in a single API, with MSB licensing and bank partnerships for regulatory compliance.
- **Security-first design** – SOC 2 Type II, audited key custody, deterministic settlement across chains and banks.
- **Experienced team** – Founders and engineers from Uber Payments, Mastercard, Visa, Block, Google, and Stanford Blockchain Research.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale global payout and treasury automation for enterprises and fintechs.
- Deepen multi-chain support and enable “agentic commerce” (software that can hold, decide, and move money autonomously).
- Expand regulatory coverage (already in US, Middle East, Japan) and bank partnerships.
- Continue to hire engineering talent to build complex transaction logic and infrastructure.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: “Think like an owner,” “Progress over perfection,” “Trust is built into the stack,” and “Default to written thinking.” Emphasis on long-term value, shipping and learning in production, and designing for systemic impact.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid model (employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work); primary office in New York City. In-office presence expected at NYC headquarters.
- **Team & Growth**: Small but fast-growing team (~19–25 people) with a technical majority (8 out of ~14 identified as technical). High ownership and direct impact on global financial infrastructure.
- **Perks & Stack**: Tech stack includes Node.js, AWS, SQL, JavaScript, Figma, Slack; interest in people who care about quality and impact. Career page highlights solving hard problems in payments and stablecoins alongside a mission-driven team.

## Sources
1. [hifi.com/company](https://www.hifi.com/company)
2. [hifi.com](https://www.hifi.com/)
3. [builtin.com/company/hifi-1](https://builtin.com/company/hifi-1)
4. [linkedin.com/company/hifibridge](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hifibridge)
5. [hifi.com/careers](https://www.hifi.com/careers)

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