Digital Assets Compliance

About Column

For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affrim, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core and many other vendors.

All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve.

At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology‑forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us!

This role serves as the primary compliance partner across all relevant teams, customers, and business functions — with deep specialization in digital assets. You’ll be embedded with product and engineering teams building stablecoin infrastructure, payment rails, and crypto‑enabled banking products.

This is not a securities or broker‑dealer compliance role. We’re not looking for expertise in custody, capital markets, or investment products. Many crypto compliance professionals to date have focused on securities regulations for trading platforms and custodial services. We need someone who understands payments, money transmission, banking regulations, and how digital assets interact with traditional payment systems — not someone who’s spent their career navigating SEC rules for crypto exchanges.

This position will report directly to the Bank’s Chief Compliance Officer, and the individual in the role must be willing to work in person in our Presidio‑based office in San Francisco (3‑4 days/week).

• Design and implement our end‑to‑end AML/BSA compliance program for stablecoin and crypto payment products in accordance with the GENIUS Act and Bank Secrecy Act requirements.
• Establish customer identification programs (CIP), customer due diligence (CDD), and enhanced due diligence (EDD) frameworks tailored to digital asset transactions.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive sanctions compliance program for digital assets, including blockchain analytics, wallet screening, and sanctions risk management specific to crypto payment flows.
• Expand our existing suspicious activity monitoring and sanctions screening tools and processes to blend digital asset‑specific workflows.
• Build consumer protection compliance programs covering marketing, disclosure, UDAAP, and other consumer‑facing regulatory requirements specific to digital assets.

• Serve as the primary compliance partner to product and engineering teams building the stablecoin infrastructure.
• Translate regulatory requirements into concrete technical specifications (e.g., “we need the ability to freeze tokens within X minutes of receiving a court order”).
• Conduct compliance reviews of new product features and partnerships before launch.
• Partner with our bank compliance team to ensure our crypto program integrates seamlessly with Column’s existing BSA/AML framework.

• Define data requirements and work with engineering to ensure we collect and retain the right information for compliance and investigations.
• Document policies, procedures, and controls in a way that enables self‑service and scales as we grow.
• Build training programs to ensure all relevant teams understand their compliance obligations.

• 7+ years of experience in financial crimes compliance, with at least 3 years working on digital assets, crypto, or blockchain‑related compliance.
• Expert knowledge of BSA/AML requirements and how they apply to digital assets under the existing regulatory and industry…