Lead, Technical Compliance

As Lead of Technical Compliance at Gemini, you will modernize the compliance program through AI and automation initiatives, including the design and implementation of agentic AI workflows. You'll lead a team of experienced compliance professionals responsible for critical functions within the Compliance and AML/BSA/Sanctions program, ensuring these solutions are scalable, secure, auditable, and aligned with regulatory and business requirements. You will work across transaction monitoring, customer risk scoring, sanctions controls, and reporting while collaborating frequently with firm senior management, third-party vendors and auditors, and multiple departments across Gemini.

What you'll do

• Lead the design, development, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of AI-enabled automation and agentic AI workflows across the Compliance Program
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI models, machine learning, and automation to improve the effectiveness, scalability, consistency, and efficiency of compliance processes and controls
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and determine their suitability for compliance applications based on business value, risk, explainability, and implementation complexity
• Lead development and maintenance of Gemini's transaction monitoring system, including data ingestion, development of new transaction monitoring scenarios, and optimization of existing scenarios
• Support and maintain a customer risk scoring model that reflects Gemini's risk-based approach and drives periodic reviews and transaction monitoring for effective customer segmentation
• Lead enhancements to sanctions controls, procedures, and threshold tuning, and maintain the sanctions screening tool to stay current with list updates and regulatory changes
• Build real-time data and reporting solutions using Python or SQL that automate the capture of key management information in a scalable, efficient, and reliable manner
• Integrate and maintain external tools to enhance the Compliance Program
• Assist in developing enhancements to Gemini's quantitative approach to its enterprise-wide AML/BSA risk assessment
• Partner with engineers, product managers, project managers, and analysts to deliver insights to Compliance
• Partner with Compliance, Engineering, Product, Data, Legal, and Information Security teams to translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable AI and technology solutions
• Establish appropriate governance and controls for AI-enabled solutions, including testing, validation, human oversight, data protection, auditability, documentation, and ongoing performance monitoring
• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of AI and automation solutions, from requirements gathering and prototyping through implementation, production monitoring, and continuous improvement

What you bring

• A BA/BS degree or international equivalent
• 7+ years of relevant work experience with compliance technology and data analysis within financial services, digital asset, and/or management consulting spaces
• Advanced skills with Python and SQL
• Experience designing, developing, or implementing AI-enabled automation, agentic AI workflows, or other advanced technology solutions
• Experience leveraging AI models and data-driven technologies to solve complex business or operational problems
• The ability to translate business and regulatory requirements into technical requirements, solution designs, and measurable acceptance criteria
• Understanding of the software-development lifecycle, including testing, documentation, deployment, monitoring, and production support
• Comfort in a technology-forward company and facility with computer and web-based applications, including Microsoft Office, case management systems, and web-based databases
• Experience working collaboratively across different teams and departments
• Strong technical and clear business communication skills
• Authorization to work in the United States and fluency in English

Nice to have

• Experience with Databricks and Pyspark
• Understanding of or familiarity with regulatory expectations and industry standards in relation to AML/BSA/Sanctions regulations
• Exposure to blockchain tracing/analytics tools or blockchain concepts
• Adaptability to an ever-changing environment and the capability to articulate thorough analysis to stakeholders
• Hands-on experience with generative AI, large language models, agentic workflows, prompt and context design, workflow orchestration, or AI-model evaluation
• Familiarity with responsible-AI principles and AI governance, including explainability, human oversight, privacy, security, auditability, and model-performance monitoring
• Experience implementing AI or automation solutions within financial services, compliance, risk management, or another regulated environment
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools or coding agents to support prototyping, testing, documentation, and solution delivery

What we offer

• Base salary range of $140,000-$200,000 in New York (not inclusive of discretionary bonus or equity)
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401(k) with company matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off
• Hybrid work approach at hub offices, with remote options available depending on location and role; all employees required to onboard in-person at an office location

About Gemini

Gemini is a globally active crypto and Web3 platform founded in 2014, offering crypto products and services to individuals and institutions in over 70 countries. The company is publicly traded and aims to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom by providing trusted access to the decentralized future.