Instructional Designer, TRM Academy (Compliance)

As an Instructional Designer for TRM Academy at TRM Labs, you design and build courses, certifications and learning paths that help financial institutions, crypto businesses, regulators and law enforcement understand crypto risk, apply compliance principles and combat crypto-enabled financial crime. You turn the expertise of TRM's intelligence, policy and compliance teams into published, assessment-backed training across self-paced courses, live sessions and product documentation, in multiple languages.

What you'll do

• Design learning pathways that turn the Academy's catalog into clear paths through self-paced courses, live sessions and scenario-based assessments, with a focus on helping compliance teams understand crypto activity, assess risk and apply regulatory requirements in practice.
• Keep TRM's certifications accurate and defensible by running the review cycle for certification programs, routing content and exam items to subject-matter experts for sign-off, checking figures and citations against their sources, and updating courses as crypto risks, regulatory requirements and source material evolve.
• Coach subject-matter experts with editorial feedback so their expertise becomes clear, well-built courses, hands-on exercises and trainer toolkits for live delivery, and help learners connect technical and regulatory concepts to everyday compliance decisions.
• Co-own product documentation and training across TRM's platforms, keeping help content, onboarding and product training accurate and aligned with releases while connecting platform capabilities to practical compliance and investigative workflows.
• Deliver content in multiple languages without losing accuracy by running the localization workflow: first-draft translation, native-speaker review and subject-matter expert sign-off for technical and regulatory material.
• Draft with AI and own the verification so no unsupported figure, source or regulatory detail reaches a learner; build reusable workflows the Academy adopts and measure both build time saved and learner outcomes beyond completions.

What you bring

• 3 to 5+ years of instructional design or curriculum development for adult learners, with a portfolio of published, assessment-backed courses.
• Experience building on an LMS and writing valid assessments and item banks.
• Ability to translate technical and regulatory subject-matter content into practical curriculum.
• Production AI fluency: you already use AI daily to draft content, generate assessment items and speed up build and research workflows.
• Readiness to build reusable AI workflows others adopt, including item generation checked against source and comparisons of existing modules against new intelligence and regulatory developments, with ownership of the human verification step.
• Excellent written communication and a track record owning courses end-to-end as the single accountable owner.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with crypto compliance, anti-money laundering, sanctions or financial-crime risk.

What we offer

• Base salary range of $155,000 to $175,000 (US); individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience and location.
• Eligibility to participate in TRM's equity plan.
• Distributed role with business hours overlap across US time zones for internal syncs and content reviews.
• Minimal travel; occasional travel for team or customer content sessions if needed.

About TRM Labs

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases and construct operating pictures of threat networks. The company is a Series C organization with $220M in total funding, backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator and Thoma Bravo, and operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., London and Singapore.