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# Head of Compliance Product at Elliptic

- **Company:** Elliptic
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/elliptic/34be9c00-ff95-48c3-bfe8-63b2ea029b7a

## Job description

We're hiring a Head of Compliance Product to lead the products at the heart of Elliptic and define what they become in the age of AI. Compliance is where Elliptic began and where our commercial core sits today. Some of the world's largest exchanges, banks and government agencies rely on our screening, monitoring and investigation products, and the industry they serve is at an inflection point. Compliance teams everywhere are looking to AI to make their work dramatically more efficient, freeing their people to focus on the judgement calls that genuinely need a human, with every automated decision auditable and explainable. Elliptic is building that future with our customers, not just for them, and this role owns it. You will lead the product managers responsible for our core compliance portfolio, spanning wallet and transaction screening, continuous monitoring, on-chain investigations and risk configuration, and you will drive the product side of our agentic compliance programme alongside our design partners. Much of what you build will have no precedent. You will be inventing the category, inside the company with the data, intelligence and customer trust to win it. This is a player-coach role reporting to the VP of Product. You will lead and grow a team of product managers and personally own some of the hardest problems on the roadmap. The product organisation is centred in London with a growing US presence.

## What you'll do

- Own the vision, strategy and roadmap for Elliptic's compliance portfolio, and define what these products become as AI reshapes how compliance work gets done.
- Lead product for our agentic compliance programme: AI capabilities that make compliance work faster and better, with auditability and explainability designed in from the start.
- Lead, coach and grow a team of product managers. Hire well, develop people deliberately, and set the standard for how a modern, AI-augmented PM works. Developing product talent is a core output of this role, not a side effect.
- Stay obsessively close to customers, in creative ways: Methods such as design partnerships, analyst shadowing, product instrumentation, and internal dogfooding before anything ships come naturally to you to increase the chances of success. Convert ambiguous market signal into a clear view of what to build and why.
- Prioritise ruthlessly. Demand will always exceed capacity. Sequence zero-to-one bets against the needs of products customers depend on today, and say yes or no credibly, with reasoning people can engage with.
- Execute with rigour, raising velocity and quality together. Own outcomes, not shipping dates. Use AI across your own workflow and your team's to learn faster and ship better at the same time, in a domain where mistakes carry real consequences.

What this role is not

- Not a compliance officer role. You are building the products compliance teams use, not running a compliance programme.
- Not a caretaker role. The core products are successful and deeply embedded; the mandate is reinvention.
- Not a management-only layer. You will lead product managers and personally do product work on the hardest problems.

Who we're looking for

- 10+ years building software products, including leading and developing product managers, with people who are better because they worked with you.
- A genuine zero-to-one track record: an ambiguous problem in a complex domain, taken from nothing to a product real users depend on.
- Depth in financial crime compliance from the product side (transaction monitoring, screening, KYC/EDD or investigations), built inside an exchange, a bank, a fintech or a compliance technology company.
- Working knowledge of crypto and blockchain as a baseline; deep blockchain analytics experience is a strong plus.
- AI-native: AI is embedded in how you work and build every day, you have shipped AI or agentic capabilities to production, and you raise the AI capability of teams around you. If AI has not materially changed how you build product in the last two years, this is not the right role.
- Deep executional rigour: you break complex problems into shippable steps, sweat the details that determine quality, and reliably carry work over the line.
- High self-sufficiency: you find high-value opportunities no one assigned you, create clarity rather than wait for it, and are comfortable owning a broad remit while the map is still being drawn.
- Continuous systems thinking: you look for the repeatable system behind every one-off fix, building leverage so each problem solved makes the whole team permanently faster.
- A data-informed operating style: you instrument what you ship, argue from evidence, and change your mind when the data disagrees.
- Judgement under ambiguity: you know which decisions to make fast and which to hold open when precedent does not exist.
- Comfort in regulated, high-stakes environments: you treat trust, explainability and defensibility as features, and operate well at the tension point between innovation and regulatory reality.
- Restlessness about velocity and quality: you treat "that's just how long it takes" as a claim to be tested.

If you're energised by ownership, invention, and building side by side with customers in a high-stakes domain, we'd love to hear from you.

## About Elliptic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Elliptic provides blockchain analytics and crypto compliance solutions to help financial institutions, crypto businesses, and governments detect and prevent financial crime in digital assets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C funded)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Dr. Tom Robinson (Chief Scientist) and James Smith (co-founders)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Blockchain Analytics & Crypto Compliance
- **Target Customers**: B2B — Financial institutions (banks, payment processors), crypto businesses (exchanges, wallets, stablecoin issuers), and government/law enforcement agencies
- **Mission**: Prevent financial crime in crypto and enable the trusted adoption of digital assets

## Products & Services
- **Crypto Compliance**: A risk-based screening and transaction monitoring platform that helps businesses onboard customers with confidence and meet regulatory obligations (AML/KYC). It covers over 100+ cryptocurrencies.
- **Investigation & Intelligence**: Forensic tools for law enforcement and financial investigators to trace illicit funds across blockchains, attribute activity to real-world entities, and shorten time-to-resolution.
- **Stablecoin Risk Management**: Solutions to assess reserve and counterparty risk associated with stablecoin exposure, enabling institutions to adopt stablecoins with confidence.
- **Data Fabric & APIs**: Embeddable blockchain intelligence that allows clients to integrate Elliptic's data into their own existing workflows, automating compliance and governance.
- **Threat Intelligence**: Proactive intelligence feeds that close gaps on emerging typologies and threats, helping teams stay ahead of new money laundering methods.
- **Training & Education**: Programs to upskill teams on crypto risk assessment and investigation standards.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Annual Revenue**: Estimated at $19.8 million (based on LinkedIn data, likely a proxy).
  - **Total Funding**: Raised $60 million in Series C funding (led by J.P. Morgan and others, 2021). Total funding to date is over $100 million.
  - **Scale**: 700+ customers across 30+ countries; monitors over 50% of global digital asset trading volume; screens over $1 billion in digital asset transactions weekly.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo, Santander, SignalFire, AlbionVC, and others. Partners include Fireblocks, Revolut (customer), and various government agencies.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - **Headcount growth**: 79 employees (+20.5% monthly job posting growth, +422.2% yearly).
  - **Active Job Postings**: 47 open roles (as of mid-2025), indicating aggressive scaling.
  - **Market Position**: Recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer; the only blockchain analytics provider with that distinction.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-Mover & Trust**: Founded in 2013, Elliptic was the first company to build blockchain analytics for compliance. It has a decade of data and a reputation as the "industry standard" for crypto risk intelligence.
- **Comprehensive Dataset**: Claims to have the industry's most comprehensive blockchain dataset, with over 1 billion digital asset data points collected and 99.99% uptime.
- **Asset-Agnostic Scoring**: Unlike some competitors, Elliptic's risk scoring works across all major blockchains and assets, which is critical for multi-chain compliance.
- **Regulatory & Law Enforcement Ties**: Deep relationships with global regulators and law enforcement (e.g., FBI) make their data and tools a de facto standard for investigations.
- **Enterprise-Grade**: Strong focus on financial institutions (banks, payment companies) which require the highest levels of compliance and security.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Automation**: Actively hiring AI Engineers and Full Stack Engineers, suggesting a push to automate compliance workflows and reduce false positives.
- **Stablecoin Expansion**: Developing specialized risk management for stablecoins, a fast-growing area of institutional crypto adoption.
- **Global Regulatory Compliance**: Helping clients navigate the "transitional window" of new regulations (e.g., MiCA in Europe) through education and updated product features.
- **Indirect Risk Reporting**: A newer solution to reveal crypto exposure hiding within traditional payment activity, targeting traditional financial institutions.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: Employees are part of "the cryptoasset revolution that is shaping the future of finance" and work on preventing financial crime.
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes "Inclusiveness" and "Company-wide collaboration." Quarterly offsites (virtual and in-person) are a highlight.
- **Flexible Work**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with offices in London, New York, Tokyo, and Singapore. Currently operating remotely with a long-term hybrid strategy.
- **Learning & Development**: $1,000 annual individual training budget; regular "Curiosity Sessions" with industry experts; cross-functional learning encouraged.
- **Compensation**: Competitive salary plus share options; comprehensive health insurance.
- **Work Environment**: Described as "fascinating, fast-paced work" with a "talented team." The work is serious, but the culture is described as not overly formal.

## Sources
1. [Elliptic Company Website](https://www.elliptic.co/)
2. [Elliptic - About Us](https://www.elliptic.co/company/who-we-are)
3. [Elliptic - Life at Elliptic](https://www.elliptic.co/company/life-at-elliptic)
4. [Elliptic - LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ellipticco)
5. [Elliptic - Jobs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/elliptic)

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