The posting
Capital markets are undergoing a fundamental shift. Assets that live in fragmented systems and manual workflows are moving onto blockchains – systems designed to move and store value more transparently and efficiently. While this unlocks more open and programmable financial systems, it also introduces significant complexity, and for most people, moving money into this new world is still far too hard.
Fun builds the infrastructure that powers consumer-facing fintech applications – handling onboarding, account access, and powering money movement so users can interact with blockchain-based systems as seamlessly as they do with traditional finance. For fintech builders, Fun provides a best-in-class onboarding and deposit stack that drives conversion and unlocks growth. We operate at the intersection of financial infrastructure, complex engineering, and product experience.
We're looking for a Compliance Operations Analyst, Sanctions and Financial Crimes to handle the sanctions and financial crimes casework behind that infrastructure – the screening, investigations, and day-to-day judgment calls our partners rely on.
Compliance here is a design input, not a checklist bolted onto a finished product. Our architecture is non-custodial, our rails span fiat and crypto, and our mandate is global – which means sanctions screening has to be reasoned from first principles rather than copied from a bank or an exchange. This is a hands-on role: you will work the alerts, the investigations, and the edge cases yourself.
This role reports to the Head of Compliance (General Counsel in the interim) and works closely with Finance and Operations, Engineering, Partnerships and Customer Support.
What You'll Own
What We're Looking For:
- Five or more years in sanctions or financial crimes compliance, including meaningful time at a leading crypto or decentralized finance (DeFi) company, a digital asset exchange, or a financial institution with a serious digital assets practice.
- Working command of OFAC sanctions requirements as applied to on-chain activity – practical and current, not theoretical – and familiarity with UN, EU, UK, and Singapore sanctions regimes.
- The ability to reason clearly about how sanctions obligations attach to non-custodial and self-custody product architectures.
- Fluency with blockchain analytics tooling and on-chain investigation across chains and bridges – including dust and address-poisoning attacks, and the difference between real indirect exposure and incidental dust. You can work a chain of transactions yourself rather than waiting on a vendor's report.
- Precise, defensible judgment. You can make the call on a hard case, document why, and tell the difference between a rule, a norm, and a vendor's default setting.
- Comfort with SQL and AI tools – you can query transaction data directly and use AI to move faster without outsourcing your judgment.
- Excellent written communication. The output of this job is largely documents that other people act on.
- Comfort working at startup speed through a high volume of time-sensitive cases.
Nice to Have:
- Experience building sanctions screening or investigations processes at an early-stage company.
- Experience drafting suspicious activity report (SAR) narratives.
- Exposure to money transmission, money services business (MSB) registration, or state licensing frameworks.
- Regulatory, enforcement, or policy experience – at an agency, a trade association, or in private practice.
- Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) or Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) certification from the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS).
- Familiarity with card scheme rules and the compliance surface of fiat payment rails.
Why Join Us:
- Shape the sanctions controls of infrastructure at the center of a fast-growing business – your calls ship to every application built on Fun at once.
- Work at the intersection of hard engineering, real payment economics, and product craft.
- Ship consequential work quickly, alongside leading applications, protocols, and financial infrastructure providers.



