Lead, Regulatory Compliance & Strategic Initiatives

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.

Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital.

The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. 

The Regulatory Compliance & Strategic Initiatives Lead will oversee the design, development, and initial implementation of strategic regulatory initiatives across Anchorage, including (i) pursuing and securing regulatory licenses in multiple jurisdictions, (ii) operationalizing compliance and risk in these new jurisdictions, and (iii) overseeing the ongoing initiative to ensure the optimal enterprise-wide shared services organization design across Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Audit. In addition, you have oversight over enterprise-wide complaints, training, conduct, and policies and procedures programs, as well as certain compliance programs unique to Anchorage Digital Bank (“Bank”): Regulation W Compliance and 12 CFR Part 9 (Fiduciary) Compliance.

You bring knowledge of best practices in traditional finance in many areas of compliance and risk, coupled with expertise in leading the PMO for large-scale, complex, cross-functional, high-impact initiatives.

You build effective relationships with stakeholders, including U.S. and non-U.S. regulators, team managers, and cross-functional partners; effectively influence stakeholders to achieve strategic initiatives, and are regarded as a trusted advisor in the design and operation of Regulation W and Fiduciary Compliance.

You manage and lead a small team that has a clear impact on the success of Anchorage, effectively setting team vision, mission, and strategy for positive impact on clients and processes.

We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside the Regulatory Compliance & Strategic Initiatives Lead role:

• Brings knowledge of regulatory licensing, compliance, and risk best practices from traditional finance and demonstrates judgment in how to build and appropriately right-size programs to the size and complexity of Anchorage Digital and its businesses.
• Executes PMO best practices to project-manage highly complex strategic initiatives involving stakeholders across functions, geographies, and entities.

• Understands business strategy, leads licensing applications, and oversees the buildout of second-line of defense functions and shared services.
• Accountable for enterprise-wide complaints, training, conduct, policies and procedures, and Bank-specific Reg W and Fiduciary Compliance programs.
• Anticipates factors that could influence global strategies and Anchorage Digital’s position in the market and is accountable for results and implementing target operating models and licensing solutions with a longer-term view that impacts multiple functions and entities across Anchorage Digital.

• Has a deep knowledge of the strategy of Anchorage Digital. Actively engages across all functions on global business and licensing strategy and identifies new ways to deliver upon it.
• Ensures alignment and integration between initiatives, priorities, people, processes, and structures in your department, the other departments, and with the broader strategic priorities of Anchorage.

• Collaborates effectively across teams and disciplines to solve problems and resolve technical debates.
• Articulates a clear strategy for regulatory compliance, produces high-quality output and execution, and communicates effectively across the company and with external stakeholders such as the OCC and non-US licensing authorities.
• Is engaging, easy to approach, builds appropriate rapport, with diplomacy and tact, and is recognized as a strategic leader whose knowledge, ideas and critical thinking impact the strategic direction of Anchorage Digital.

• Experience leading large, complex projects cutting across multiple functions.
• Experience overseeing regulatory compliance programs in financial services.
• Experience effectively communicating with and influencing senior leaders, such as Board members, executive leadership, and regulators.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with a focus on delivering.

• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)

• Compensation at Anchorage Digital is market-driven and data-informed. All full-time employees receive a market-leading salary, meaningful equity, and a generous perks and benefits package.

• Benefits: Anchorage Digital is proud to provide market-leading benefits and perks to our employees. We are only 1% of companies who offer 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents. This means no monthly out-of-pocket premiums for you or your family. We offer a wide range of benefits to our employees globally.
• You can learn more about our culture and perks and benefits here.

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are

The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in  the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy. 

Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

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