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# Director of Product, AML & Digital Asset Compliance at CertiK

- **Company:** CertiK
- **Location:** Hong Kong
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/certik/36fa63d5-f3e0-4529-8c87-392aab2763a1

## Job description

## About the Company

Born from groundbreaking research at Columbia University and Yale University, CertiK is a leading Web3 security company focused on securing blockchain protocols, smart contracts, and decentralized applications through cutting-edge security research, formal verification, and AI-powered technology. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York City, CertiK provides end-to-end security solutions including smart contract audits, penetration testing, on-chain monitoring, incident response, and compliance services for some of the largest projects in the digital asset ecosystem. Today, CertiK supports thousands of enterprise clients and Web3 projects globally, with a distributed international team spanning North America, Asia, and Europe. The company is backed by leading investors including Coatue, Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, and Sequoia Capital, and has been recognized by organizations such as the World Economic Forum and CB Insights for its contributions to blockchain security innovation. CertiK has spent years building security, risk, monitoring, and blockchain expertise across thousands of digital asset companies and institutional customers. As digital assets increasingly become part of mainstream financial infrastructure, security, financial crime risk, and regulatory compliance are converging. We believe there is an opportunity to build a new generation of institutional digital asset risk and compliance products at that intersection. This role will have significant influence over what that product becomes. We are looking for someone who wants to build it.

## About the Role

CertiK is building the next generation of risk and compliance products for financial institutions and digital asset businesses. We are looking for a product leader to own this product area from customer discovery and product strategy through delivery, go to market, adoption, and expansion. This is not an internal compliance role. You are here to build the products that compliance, AML, financial crime, and risk teams use. You will work directly with financial institutions, exchanges, VASPs, fintechs, and other digital asset businesses to understand how their compliance teams operate, identify the problems that matter most, and turn those problems into scalable products. The product space may include areas such as blockchain and entity risk, transaction and wallet monitoring, sanctions and KYT, risk scoring, investigation and case management workflows, continuous monitoring, and compliance evidence and reporting. A core part of your job will be deciding which problems CertiK should solve first and which ones we should not. You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Data, Compliance, Business Development, and company leadership to build this product line.

## Responsibilities

- Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for CertiK's AML and digital asset compliance products.
- Spend significant time with customers and prospective customers, including CCOs, MLROs, AML teams, investigators, and risk leaders, to deeply understand their workflows and unmet needs.
- Identify repeatable market problems behind individual customer requests and determine which problems should become scalable products.
- Translate customer and market insights into product concepts, prototypes, requirements, and clear engineering priorities.
- Drive products from discovery through design, development, launch, adoption, and iteration.
- Define the key workflows, risk models, decision systems, and user experiences required by institutional compliance teams.
- Work closely with Engineering and Data teams to make appropriate product and technical trade offs.
- Partner with Business Development and customer facing teams during strategic sales cycles, including discovery, product demonstrations, pilots, and design partnerships.
- Work with Compliance and regulatory experts to translate evolving AML, sanctions, and digital asset requirements into scalable product capabilities.
- Measure success through customer adoption, product usage, enterprise wins, expansion, and other measurable business outcomes.

## Requirements

- Significant product management experience building B2B software in fintech, regtech, financial services, risk, compliance, or digital assets.
- A track record of owning meaningful products or product areas from discovery through launch and adoption.
- Deep understanding of AML, financial crime, transaction monitoring, sanctions, KYC/KYB, investigations, or related compliance workflows.
- Experience building or working closely with products such as transaction monitoring, blockchain analytics, wallet screening, risk engines, case management, investigation platforms, or compliance workflow systems.
- Strong customer discovery skills. You can speak credibly with senior compliance leaders and frontline analysts, understand both what they say and what they actually need, and translate those insights into product decisions.
- Strong product judgment. You know the difference between a one off customer request and a repeatable market need, and you are comfortable making hard prioritization decisions.
- Commercial instincts. You understand that a successful enterprise product must not only work, customers must adopt it, pay for it, and expand their usage.
- Ability to operate in an ambiguous, early stage product environment and personally drive work forward rather than simply coordinate across teams.

Bonus Points

- Experience building AML or compliance products at a blockchain analytics, fintech, regtech, exchange, bank, or financial infrastructure company.
- Experience with blockchain analytics, KYT, wallet screening, on chain investigations, or digital asset risk.
- Previous experience as an AML practitioner, compliance officer, MLRO, investigator, or financial crime professional.
- Experience working with regulated financial institutions and understanding how compliance products are evaluated, procured, implemented, and operated.
- Experience with regulatory examinations, VASP licensing, or financial crime remediation.
- CAMS or another relevant professional qualification.
- Relationships with compliance and risk leaders across banks, fintechs, exchanges, VASPs, regulators, or law enforcement.

The expected annual base salary range for this position in the United States is $150,000 to $220,000. Compensation for candidates outside the United States will be determined based on location, experience, and qualifications.

#blockchain #startups #hiring

CertiK accepts applications for this position on an ongoing basis.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

CertiK is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law.

CertiK will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf

All CertiK employees are expected to actively support diversity on their teams, and in the Company.

## About CertiK

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CertiK is the largest Web3 security platform, providing end-to-end audit, compliance, and monitoring services for blockchain projects and financial institutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $303.7M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2017 (incorporated as Certified Kernel Tech LLC; LinkedIn lists 2018)
- **Founders**: Prof. Zhong Shao (Yale University) and Prof. Ronghui Gu (Columbia University)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Blockchain Security, Cybersecurity, Web3 Infrastructure, Compliance & Risk Management
- Target customers: B2B – crypto exchanges, DeFi protocols, stablecoin issuers, custodians, enterprises adopting DLT, and public blockchain ecosystems (e.g., Aptos, Ripple, Sandbox, Polygon, BNB Chain, TON)
- Mission/Purpose: “Security, compliance, and risk management for every stage of your Web3 journey” – from launch to scale, enabling projects to build with confidence, integrity, and real-time insights.

## Products & Services
- **Smart Contract Audits**: Manual code review combined with AI‑powered analysis and optional formal verification; supports Solidity, Rust, Go.
- **Formal Verification**: Proprietary hacker‑resistant kernel technology (CertiKOS) derived from academic research at Yale and Columbia.
- **Penetration Testing**: In‑depth assessment of off‑chain components, APIs, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), and Web3 applications.
- **SkyNet**: Real‑time security scoring and monitoring for 17,000+ projects (1.8M monthly active users).
- **SkyInsights**: On‑chain AML/CTF compliance, risk analytics, and transaction monitoring (300M+ address labels, 4,000+ incidents detected since 2020).
- **Proof of Reserves**: Attestation services for exchanges and custodians.
- **Bug Bounty Platform**: Fully managed platform with 0% fees on payouts, connecting projects with a global ethical hacker community.
- **DLT Advisory**: Strategy, architecture design, and security assessments for institutions building or integrating distributed ledger technology.
- **Validator & Node Operations**: Managed infrastructure for blockchain networks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Over $2 billion (source: LinkedIn, citing leading investors).
- **Key Metrics** (public data):  
  - Annual Revenue: $3.9M (LinkedIn estimate)  
  - Total Funding: $303.7M across 10 rounds (latest Series B in April 2022 led by Tiger Global Management and SoftBank Vision Fund)  
  - $483B market cap assessed, 115,000+ vulnerabilities detected, 90,000+ security audit findings  
  - 5,000+ enterprise clients, 500+ applications secured, 100M+ users protected  
  - Team of 125 employees ( +10.9% YoY growth) across 28 countries
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Coatue, Goldmann Sachs, Shunei Capital, Insight Partners, Tiger Global Management, SoftBank Vision Fund, Hillhouse Investment
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded into AML/CFT compliance (SkyInsights), SOC 2 Type II compliance, and regulatory partnerships in US, Singapire, Hong Kong, Japan, Abu Dhabi, Korea.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Academic Foundaton**: Founded by leading formal‑verification researchers from Yale and Columbia; CertiKOS is a hacker‑resistnt concurrent OS with published peer‑reviewed results.
- **Full‑Lifecycle Security**: One vendor for audits, monitoring, compliance, bug bounties, and node operations – reduces integration complexity for Web3 projects.
- **Scale & Trust**: Largest Web3 security auditor with >5,000 clients, industry recognition (clients inclue Aptos, Ripple, Polygon, BNB Chain).
- **Regultory Alignment**: Proactive invoement in global crypto policy (MiCA, DORA, HKSCF, MAS) gives clients a compliance edge.
- **Dual‑Layer Defense**: Combines AI‑drive analysis with manual expert review and optional formal‑verification – a rarer deep‑tech approach.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding Compliance Sute**: Adding real‑time AML monitoring, risk intelligence, and regulatory advisory to capture institutional and enterprise demand.
- **Deeping AI/Formal Methods**: Leveraging AI to automate more of audit pipeline while maintaining formal verification rigor.
- **Geographic Scope**: Growing regulatory relationships in Asia, Middle East, and Europe to serve global VASPs.
- **Product Diversifiction**: Moving from single‑poit audit services to a full “security + infrastructure” platform (nodes, validators, bug bounties).

## Why Work Here
- **Impactful Mission**: Work on security that protects hundreds of billions in digital assets – directly shaping trust in decentralized finance.
- **Cutting‑Edge Technology**: Daily exposure to formal verification, AI security, blockchain internals, and both Web2/Web3 infrastructure.
- **Global & Remote‑Friendly**: Employees across 28 countries; office in New York but distributed workforce (remote‑first culture likely based on hiring patterns).
- **Career Growth**: Roles from Engineer III to Principal; senior positions in Blockchain Security Engineering (Solity, Rust, Golang) and Formal Methods.
- **Acadamic‑Industry Bridge**: Collaborate with founders who are active professors – access to latest research and top conferences.
- **Perks & Culture**: Not explicitly listed, but professional bug bount platform with 0% fees and team of respected security researchers suggests merit‑based, technically rigorous environment.

## Sources
1. [certik.com/company/about](https://www.certik.com/company/about) – Founders, background
2. [certik.com](https://www.certik.com/) – Products, metrics, client list
3. [certik.com/faq](https://www.certik.com/faq) – Service descriptions
4. [linkedin.com/company/certik](https://www.linkedin.com/company/certik) – Revenue, funding, employee count, valuation
5. [jobs.lever.co/certik](https://jobs.lever.co/certik) – Current job openings

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