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title: 'Digital Assets Compliance Officer at Clear Street'
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# Digital Assets Compliance Officer at Clear Street

- **Company:** Clear Street
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clearstreet/jobs/8227312

## Job description

About Clear Street:

Clear Street’s mission is to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency and scale.

We give our clients the technology, tools, and service once reserved for the largest institutions, rebuilt with modern infrastructure. Our single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform powers investor growth today and is transforming how they can interact with markets tomorrow.

For more information, visit https://clearstreet.io.

The Role:

Clear Street is seeking an experienced AML Officer to lead and oversee our Anti-Money Laundering program for digital asset clients. This is a senior individual-contributor role with program-ownership responsibility across KYC, KYB, and KYT onboarding and ongoing monitoring, as well as end-to-end management of transaction investigations and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) filing determinations. The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in blockchain analytics — with hands-on proficiency in Chainalysis — and the regulatory acumen to operate in a global, multi-jurisdictional environment.

Responsibilities:

Program Oversight

- Design, implement, and continuously improve the firm's KYC, KYB, and KYT frameworks for digital asset clients, ensuring alignment with FinCEN, OFAC, and applicable regulations.
- Conduct risk-based customer due diligence, including enhanced due diligence (EDD) for high-risk clients and ongoing transactional due diligence.
- Own ongoing monitoring workflows: periodic reviews, triggered reviews, and adverse media screening for the digital asset client population.
- Develop and maintain risk-based KYT policies governing transaction monitoring thresholds, risk scoring methodologies, and escalation protocols.
- Collaborate with Onboarding, Sales, and Legal to ensure client lifecycle processes are compliant, efficient, and scalable.

Transaction Investigations & SAR Filing

- Lead the end-to-end transaction investigation process: triage, investigation, escalation, and disposition of alerts generated by automated monitoring systems.
- Make well-reasoned, documented SAR filing determinations in compliance with BSA/FinCEN requirements, including timely preparation, review, and submission of SAR narratives.
- Establish and manage a robust case management workflow with clear SLAs, documentation standards, and quality-control checkpoints.
- Identify typologies and patterns and emerging risks in digital asset transaction activity to proactively refine investigation playbooks and alert logic.
- Interface with law enforcement and regulators in response to subpoenas and other information requests.

Blockchain Analytics — Chainalysis

- Serve as the firm's subject-matter expert for Chainalysis (KYT, Reactor, Business Data), driving implementation, configuration, and ongoing optimization.
- Calibrate risk scoring models, custom alert rules, and exposure thresholds within Chainalysis to reflect the firm's risk appetite and client profile.
- Partner with Technology and Operations to ensure seamless integration of Chainalysis outputs into the firm's broader transaction monitoring and case management infrastructure.
- Monitor Chainalysis product updates and blockchain analytics developments, recommending program enhancements as needed.
- Evaluate and integrate supplementary blockchain analytics tools (e.g., Elliptic, TRM Labs) as the program matures.

## Qualifications

Required

- Minimum 5 years of AML compliance experience with at least 5 years specifically focused on digital assets / virtual asset service providers (VASPs).
- Hands-on, practitioner-level expertise with Chainalysis products (KYT and Reactor required; Business Data a strong plus); including implementation, configuration, alert rule-writing, and risk calibration. This is a mandatory requirement.
- Deep understanding of BSA, FinCEN regulations (including the NPRM for unhosted wallets), OFAC sanctions programs, and FATF guidance as applied to digital assets.
- Demonstrated experience conducting complex transaction investigations in a digital asset context and drafting SAR narratives.
- Proven ability to build or materially enhance an AML program, including policy and procedure development.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret on-chain data, entity exposure, and transaction flow in the context of AML risk.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to document complex investigations clearly and present to senior stakeholders.

## Preferred

- Global AML experience across multiple jurisdictions (EU/MiCA, UK FCA, APAC, UAE/DFSA, or similar) strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting regulatory examinations or enforcement matters in the digital asset context.
- Prior experience at a prime broker, FCM, exchange, or custodian serving institutional digital asset clients.
- Knowledge of DeFi, NFT, and cross-chain bridging risk typologies.

We Offer:

The Base Salary Range for this role is $150,000-$175,000. This range is representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Clear Street. Where a candidate falls in this range will be based on job related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. This range represents Base Salary only, which is just one element of Clear Street's total compensation. The range stated does not include other factors of total compensation such as bonuses or equity.

At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, 401k matching, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical, dental and vision insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. As such, we are requiring employees to be in the office 4 days per week. In-office benefits include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, a great location, and amazing views.

Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other's successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high-performance workforces that are diverse — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

## About Clear Street

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing legacy capital markets infrastructure with a modern, cloud-native, API-first clearing and custody platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Series B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Kenneth Sicklick, Alex Lawton, John D’Agostini, Andy Volz

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services, Capital Markets, Fintech
- **Target customers**: Sophisticated individual traders, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, broker-dealers, ETF issuers, family offices, corporate issuers, traditional and alternative asset managers, and investors [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/)
- **Mission**: To give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency, and scale [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/careers)

## Products & Services
- **Clear Street Platform**: A single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform that provides clearing, custody, execution, and financing services for U.S. equities, options, and fixed-income. The platform is API-based and AI-enhanced, offering horizontally scalable technology with real-time data and risk management [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Total Funding**: $1.0 billion in capital raised [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/about).
- **Key Metrics**:
    - **Customer Balances**: ~$28.4 billion
    - **Notional Traded Per Day**: ~$16 billion
    - **Shares Traded Per Day**: ~550 million
    - **Transaction Growth**: 94% year-over-year
    - **Institutional Clients**: ~700
    - **Employees**: 800+ worldwide [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/about)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in the provided search results, but the company has raised significant capital from institutional investors.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Modern Infrastructure**: Replaces legacy, mainframe-based systems with a cloud-native, horizontally scalable platform, providing significant cost and efficiency advantages.
- **Single Source of Truth**: All data, risk management, and operations are held in a single system, minimizing risk and operational friction for clients.
- **Multi-Asset Support**: Platform is built to handle multiple asset classes (equities, options, fixed-income, and expanding to futures, FX, etc.) on a unified system.
- **API-First Design**: A modern API-first approach allows for seamless integration and automation for sophisticated clients.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global Expansion**: Recently expanded into the Asia-Pacific region with the acquisition of Boom Securities and has a growing presence in Europe and the UK [clearstreet.io](https://www.clearstreet.io/news/blog/engineering-at-a-mission-driven-fintech).
- **Product Expansion**: Continuously adding new asset classes and services to the platform, aiming to serve a wider variety of investor types.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Actively hiring across engineering, trading, and corporate services to support rapid growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: Employees are united by a clear mission to modernize the financial ecosystem. This mission directly drives daily work and aligns business, operations, and technology goals [clearstreet.io](https://www.clearstreet.io/news/blog/engineering-at-a-mission-driven-fintech).
- **High-Impact Engineering**: With 150+ engineers, the tech team is building core financial infrastructure from the ground up, offering the chance to work on complex, high-stakes problems.
- **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes integrity, thinking big, a competitive drive to win, client-centricity, and teamwork. It has been recognized as a "Best Place to Work" [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/careers).
- **Global Presence with 18 Office Locations**: Employees can work from hubs in New York (HQ), London, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and many other cities across the US, Europe, and Asia [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/careers).
- **Top Talent**: The company is composed of top talent from both Wall Street and Silicon Valley, creating a unique and high-performance environment [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/careers).

## Sources
1. [clearstreet.io - About](https://www.clearstreet.io/about)
2. [clearstreet.io - Homepage](https://clearstreet.io/)
3. [clearstreet.io - Careers](https://clearstreet.io/careers)
4. [LinkedIn - Clear Street](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clear-street)
5. [clearstreet.io - Engineering Blog](https://www.clearstreet.io/news/blog/engineering-at-a-mission-driven-fintech)

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