VP, Compliance (Crypto)

Location: London, England; hybrid workplace.

Company

hirify.global operates across crypto, digital financial services and regulated businesses.

What you will do

• Lead the Group compliance strategy and framework across products, entities, jurisdictions, and regulated and unregulated activities.
• Oversee compliance frameworks for regulated entities and provide proportionate guidance across the wider business.
• Advise executive leadership and relevant Boards on compliance, regulatory risk, emerging issues, and strategic initiatives.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal, and Commercial teams to embed regulatory requirements into products, features, partnerships, and customer journeys.
• Own the compliance programme, including policies, risk assessments, monitoring and testing, regulatory reporting, governance, remediation, and management information.
• Oversee financial crime compliance, regulatory relationships, regulatory applications and examinations, and reporting on key risks and developments.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in Compliance, Financial Crime, Regulatory, or related functions within regulated financial services, fintech, payments, or crypto, including significant senior leadership experience.
• Experience operating at Group or enterprise level across multiple products, business lines, regulated entities, or jurisdictions.
• Experience advising executive leadership and Boards on complex compliance and regulatory matters, including challenging senior stakeholders when required.
• Significant direct experience engaging with financial services regulators and managing regulatory relationships.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory frameworks relevant to payments, cryptoassets, and digital financial services, ideally across the UK, EU, and US.
• Experience supporting product development and translating regulatory requirements into practical solutions.
• Ability to operate strategically while addressing complex or high-risk matters in detail.
• Experience building and scaling compliance programmes, teams, and infrastructure within a growing international organisation.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where regulation and business priorities evolve quickly and established playbooks may not exist.
• Ability to satisfy applicable FCA fitness and propriety requirements and hold individual regulatory responsibilities for UK regulated businesses, including registration as an EMD and MLR Individual.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace based in London, England.
• Cross-functional collaboration with executive leadership, Legal, Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Commercial teams.
• Work across an international organisation with evolving regulatory and business priorities.