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title: 'Sanctions Compliance Officer at Polymarket'
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# Sanctions Compliance Officer at Polymarket

- **Company:** Polymarket
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $180k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket/a72b3123-7a08-4cc4-a00b-18c61a42d5c1

## Job description

Sanctions Compliance Officer

## About Polymarket

Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future. We're growing fast, both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.

## About the Role

Polymarket US is hiring a Sanctions Compliance Officer to build and lead our sanctions compliance program and the operational screening function that supports it. This is a hands-on role within the Financial Crimes organization with responsibility for both program strategy and day-to-day operations across our growing U.S. business. We are looking for someone who is both a deep sanctions subject matter expert and a strong operator. You should bring extensive knowledge of U.S. economic sanctions requirements, including OFAC regulations and guidance, as well as demonstrated experience building and running effective sanctions operations. You will own the policies, controls, screening framework, escalation standards, technology, and governance that support the sanctions program, while also building and leading a standalone sanctions team responsible for reviewing sanctions alerts. This is not a purely advisory or policy role. The Sanctions Compliance Officer will be responsible for ensuring the program works effectively in practice, including establishing operational procedures, staffing and managing the screening team, setting productivity and quality standards, overseeing escalations, and continuously improving screening effectiveness. The role will work closely with Legal, Compliance, KYC, AML, Product, Engineering, and Operations. You should be equally comfortable interpreting sanctions requirements for a new product or counterparty, designing a screening control, managing an operational queue, and diving into a complex sanctions escalation.

## What You'll Do

Own and continuously enhance Polymarket US's sanctions compliance framework, including policies, procedures, governance, risk assessments, screening controls, escalation standards, and supporting documentation. Serve as the company's primary sanctions subject matter expert, translating OFAC requirements, U.S. economic sanctions programs, regulatory developments, and emerging risks into practical controls and operational requirements. Own the end-to-end sanctions screening framework across customers, transactions, counterparties, beneficial owners, and related parties, including requirements for list management, matching logic, thresholds, testing, quality assurance, and ongoing effectiveness reviews. Build and lead the sanctions team responsible for executing the screening framework, including establishing staffing, workflows, procedures, escalation criteria, service levels, quality standards, and performance expectations. Manage the investigation and disposition of sanctions screening alerts, including potential sanctions matches, ensuring decisions are consistent, well documented, and aligned with applicable requirements. Develop and maintain escalation and decision frameworks for potential blocked or prohibited activity, partnering with Legal and senior Compliance leadership on significant matters and regulatory reporting where required. Advise Legal, Compliance, Product, and business teams on sanctions risks associated with customers, counterparties, products, jurisdictions, transactions, and new business initiatives, including ownership and control considerations and application of OFAC's 50 Percent Rule. Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to embed sanctions controls into onboarding, transaction flows, and other relevant product processes and to continuously improve screening effectiveness. Establish a strong quality and testing framework to assess whether sanctions controls are operating as designed and to identify opportunities to improve accuracy, consistency, and efficiency. Identify and implement opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve the effectiveness, consistency, and efficiency of sanctions screening and alert reviews, while maintaining appropriate human oversight, controls, testing, and governance. Ensure the sanctions function remains closely integrated with KYC, AML Investigations, Fraud, and other Financial Crimes teams.

## What We're Looking For

8+ years of sanctions, financial crimes, AML, or related compliance experience, with significant direct responsibility for U.S. economic sanctions. Deep subject matter expertise in OFAC regulations, sanctions programs, and guidance. Demonstrated experience building or leading both a sanctions program and sanctions / financial crime screening operations within a regulated financial institution, FinTech, broker-dealer, derivatives firm, payments company, or similarly complex environment. A combination of sanctions advisory and operational leadership experience - this role requires someone who can interpret complex requirements and build and manage the teams and processes used to execute them. Experience leveraging AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve sanctions screening, alert review, investigations, or other financial crimes processes, with a practical understanding of appropriate governance, testing, and human oversight. Hands-on experience with sanctions screening, alert investigation, escalation, disposition, and blocked or rejected transaction analysis. Experience designing or overseeing sanctions screening systems, including matching logic, tuning, testing, list management, QA/QC, and false-positive reduction. Experience establishing operational metrics, productivity expectations, quality programs, escalation frameworks, and queue-management processes. Experience advising on sanctions risks associated with customers, counterparties, jurisdictions, transactions, products, and new business initiatives. Demonstrated ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, practical guidance and operational controls. Experience drafting sanctions policies, procedures, risk assessments, escalation standards, and operational documentation. Experience supporting regulatory exams, audits, investigations, or independent testing. Strong judgment and the ability to independently assess and escalate complex sanctions matters. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate sanctions risks and recommendations to senior leadership and non-specialist stakeholders. Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment and build a program and operations function while the business continues to scale. Plus Prior experience working at the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).. Experience at a CFTC- or NFA-registered entity, including a DCM, DCO, or FCM. Experience with digital assets, blockchain analytics, or sanctions risks associated with crypto or blockchain-based activity. Experience implementing or enhancing sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening technology. Experience building a screening operations function from the ground up.

## Benefits

Competitive salary & equity Unlimited PTO Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage 401k match Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories

## About Polymarket

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform, enabling users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events to surface a crowd‑driven signal of what people actually believe will happen.
- **Entity Type**: Private (multiple funding rounds; latest $2B corporate round led by Intercontinental Exchange in November 2025)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Prediction markets / Information markets / Financial technology
- **Target customers**: B2C (30 million monthly visitors) and B2B (institutional investors, media, financial firms using data for research and hedging)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Become the new front page of the internet” and “Define the coming era of finance” by rewarding conviction and bringing private insight to life in the public forum [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Polymarket Platform (Prediction Markets)**: A decentralized platform where users trade on the probabilities of future events across politics, geopolitics, business, culture, and breaking news. Real‑time, crowd‑driven forecasts often more accurate than polling. [polymarket.com](https://polymarket.com/)
- **Event‑Data Feeds**: Aggregated market probabilities distributed via partnerships with X, Substack, Yahoo Finance, and other media to provide “the true signal in world events.” [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/)
- **Institutional & Media Solutions**: Partnerships with Dow Jones (official information market for WSJ, Barron’s, MarketWatch) and Intercontinental Exchange (owner of NYSE) to distribute event‑driven data to global markets and power next‑generation hedging strategies. [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed; total funding exceeds $2.87B (see below)
- **Key Metric**:
  - **Annual Revenue**: $17.9M (as reported by LinkedIn)
  - **Total Funding**: $2.874B (including a $2B corporate round from Intercontinental Exchange in November 2025, a $45M Series B led by Founders Fund in May 2024, and earlier rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Intercontinental Exchange (lead in 2025 corporate round)
  - Founders Fund (lead in Series B)
  - Dow Jones (official data partnership)
  - Key acquisitions: QCEX ($112M), Brahma, Dome
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Monthly visitors: ~45 million (global rank #816, traffic up +373% year‑over‑year)
  - Headcount: 201 employees (+775% YoY)
  - Active job postings: 42 (monthly +44.8%, yearly +1300%)
  - Expanded to 20 countries; offices in New York, United States (HQ), plus remote presence

## Competitive Advantages
- **First‑mover and market dominance** in prediction markets with the deepest liquidity and widest event coverage.
- **Institutional credibility** through partnerships with Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE owner) and Dow Jones – an unmatched bridge between retail prediction markets and traditional finance.
- **Real‑time, crowd‑sourced accuracy** that is often faster and more reliable than polls or experts, attracting both retail users and institutional clients.
- **Network effects**: 30M monthly visitors provide the liquidity that makes the platform useful; data feeds are increasingly embedded in major media and financial platforms.

## Strategic Focus
- **Institutional expansion**: Leveraging partnerships with ICE and Dow Jones to integrate Polymarket data into financial research, hedging, and media.
- **Becoming the “front page of the internet”** – making market probabilities the default way to understand any breaking news event.
- **Defining the next era of finance** by merging real‑time information markets with traditional financial instruments.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring quantitative traders, data analysts, derivatives experts, AML compliance officers, and engineering roles to scale platform, security, and institutional support. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket)

## Why Work Here
- **High‑growth environment**: 775% headcount growth in the past year; massive traffic scaling and institutional adoption create exciting challenges.
- **Mission‑driven culture**: Build the “information market” that cuts through noise and empowers better decision‑making – a blend of finance, tech, and media.
- **Engineering & data focus**: Tech stack includes blockchain, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Terraform, Python, and JavaScript; roles span application security, AI ops, data engineering, and Android development.
- **Remote & office flexibility**: Headquarters in New York, NY; operates in 20 countries. Hybrid/remote policy not specified but international presence suggests flexibility.
- **Compensation & culture**: Employer rating 4.3/5 (perfect scores for work‑life, compensation, culture, career). Senior Accounting Manager salary listed at $225k–$240k (New York). [indeed.com](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Polymarket)
- **Notable perks / engineering culture**: Emphasis on decentralized finance, open‑source principles, and “rewarding conviction” – a fast‑paced, intellectually stimulating environment.

## Sources
1. [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/)
2. [polymarket.com](https://polymarket.com/)
3. [linkedin.com (company profile)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/polymarket/jobs)
4. [indeed.com (salary data)](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Polymarket)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com (open roles)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket)

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