A16zcrypto
Compliance, Licensing & Strategic Initiatives
New York Office · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$250kDetected 70 days ago
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About the role
- Kalshi has defined a new category: prediction markets.
- Kalshi allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset.
- This is a hands-on execution role with significant strategic exposure.
Responsibilities
- Own complex licensing and regulatory initiatives end-to-end across new products, jurisdictions, and regulated business lines
- Develop regulatory strategies for new products, partnerships, market expansion, and other strategic business initiatives
- Manage regulatory diligence workstreams and coordinate with outside counsel, consultants, regulators, and other external stakeholders
- Build execution plans for strategic initiatives, establish milestones and dependencies, and drive workstreams through completion
- Help design and operationalize compliance frameworks for new products, international markets, or regulated business lines
- well… build the largest financial market on the planet.
- Strong project-management skills with the ability to drive multiple complex, cross-functional workstreams simultaneously
- If you are passionate about what you do and want to use your talents to support our mission and values, we'd love to hear from you.
Requirements
- 8-12 years of relevant experience in financial-services compliance, regulatory licensing, fintech, crypto, payments, or related fields
- Experience owning complex regulatory processes from initial assessment through application, regulator engagement, remediation, and approval
- Strong understanding of financial-services regulatory frameworks, licensing requirements, governance expectations, and compliance program design
- Demonstrated ability to independently take regulatory or strategic questions and turn them into clear recommendations and executable workplans
- You will be expected to take regulatory questions, develop a clear path forward, and then drive the underlying diligence, applications, documentation, and cross-functional work required to execute.
- Prepare and coordinate regulatory applications, supporting documentation, policies, business plans, governance materials, and other materials required for licensing and approval processes
Nice to have
- Experience with regulatory M&A diligence, market-entry analysis, complex licensing regimes, or other strategic financial-services regulatory work is a plus
Compensation
- $150,000 to $250,000 annually plus equity and benefits.
- if your compensation expectations exceed this range, we encourage you to reach out - we're always happy to discuss.
Benefits
- We are committed to our vision of building something big… but also useful: a product that brings more truth through the power of markets.
Company info
- Our culture is simple: we hire really talented people, work really hard, and enjoy the climb.
- OUR CULTURE Meritocracy is at our core, and we value people who take ownership and figure (usually hard) things out.
- COMMITMENT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Kalshi is committed to creating a culture of inclusion and belonging, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- Our culture is simple:
- We are looking for ambitious and exceptional people to join our (relatively small) team to help us build the next generation of financial markets.
Equal opportunity
- Kalshi is committed to creating a culture of inclusion and belonging, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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