Chief Compliance Officer

Dakota is seeking a Chief Compliance Officer to lead compliance and regulatory programs as they scale their stablecoin infrastructure. This role involves significant executive impact and collaboration with engineering teams. About Dakota Dakota is building regulated infrastructure for the next generation of digital money. We power fintechs, payment service providers, marketplaces, and enterprises through a stablecoin platform that enables compliant money movement, custody, and cross border settlement. Our API abstracts the complexity of banking partnerships, regulatory obligations, and digital asset orchestration into infrastructure designed for institutional use. Dakota has raised $16.5M from CoinFund, 6th Man Ventures, and Triton Ventures. We operate as a FinCEN registered Money Services Business, are pursuing Money Transmitter Licenses across the United States, and are building toward Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licensing and Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization in Europe. We issue our own fully collateralized USD backed stablecoin, DKUSD, backed 1:1 by cash and cash equivalents held in segregated accounts. Our founding team has built regulated financial infrastructure before. Ryan Bozarth previously led Coinbase Custody, helping scale it into the largest crypto custodian in the world. Dakota’s technical co-founder built core infrastructure at Airbnb, bringing deep experience in designing resilient, high-scale systems. Compliance and engineering have been tightly integrated from day one, we build infrastructure to withstand scrutiny, not retrofit it later. We are a remote first team across North America and Europe. We value high quality work, clear thinking, and ownership.

What You’ll Do Lead Dakota’s Next Regulatory Chapter

• •Own the progression from state level readiness into trust-level supervision in the United States.
• •Serve as the primary point of contact for regulators, auditors, and examiners.
• •Strengthen governance, escalation, and control frameworks to meet higher tiers of oversight.

Build Multi-Jurisdictional Compliance Infrastructure

• •Lead the design and implementation of Dakota’s European compliance architecture under EMI and MiCA CASP requirements.
• •Align U.S. and European programs into a cohesive, scalable framework.
• •Navigate evolving regulatory expectations across jurisdictions while maintaining operational clarity.

Own Financial Crime and Risk End-to-End

• •Oversee Dakota’s BSA/AML, sanctions, and transaction monitoring programs.
• •Expand the compliance program as regulatory scope increases.
• •Establish a clear and defensible risk posture that balances onboarding rigor, monitoring depth, and scalability.

Partner Deeply with Engineering

• •Continue embedding compliance controls directly into Dakota’s infrastructure.
• •Leverage and evolve existing tooling investments (Sumsub, Unit21, TRM Labs).
• •Evaluate where automation and AI can responsibly increase leverage without compromising rigor.

Lead and Scale the Function

• •Lead and develop a high performing compliance team.
• •Build operating rhythms, documentation discipline, and board ready reporting aligned with institutional standards.
• •Advise the executive team on regulatory developments, stablecoin legislation, and licensing pathways.

What We Offer

• •Engaging problems that increase economic freedom globally
• •Competitive salary and equity
• •Employee friendly equity terms (extended exercise)
• •Remote work, no commuting to the office
• •Paid co-working space/desk at an office
• •Health, dental, and vision insurance
• •Regular team events and off sites